Artist’s dreams
composer Ralph Siegel, 78, says his musical projects have cost a lot in the recent past. “Each of the last major projects has swallowed up a property,” he told the Münchner Abendzeitung. “I thank my wife for not going crazy, but for letting me really do it and dream. That’s really love.” It is “financially risky to put so much money into productions.” Siegel’s musical “A Little Peace”, which premiered in Füssen last year, is scheduled to come to Munich in May and be shown there at the Deutsches Theater.
fatherly joys
Comic artist Steffen Haas.
(Photo: Katharina Fink)
Steffen Haas is an illustrator and father of a son. A suitable prerequisite for studying the picture stories by Erich Ohser alias eo plauen (1903-1944). Haas, born in 1964, has known his drawn anecdotes about “Father and Son” since his school days. For many of the descriptions of these black-and-white, comic-like stories, which usually end with a punchline, he received good marks, unlike in dictations, says Haas, who, like Ohser’s father figure, is now hairless on his head, but neither on his stomach still has a mustache. Otherwise, like Ohser, he likes to practice creativity. Haas studied graphics and painting in Vienna and Munich. He is the inventor of the “Motionless Movie Show”, in which a little mouse and a beaver are the heroes. For many years he has been drawing the comic strip for the magazine In Munich together with Gunter Hansen, he gives seminars and teaches in a youth project – a matter close to his heart. “Life is fun if you manage to keep a child’s free thinking,” says Haas. The picture stories of father and son, which contain a lot of love and also anarchy (against the Nazis), are a good inspiration for this.
For an exhibition in the Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum, Haas has put together the most beautiful stories, as well as original editions of newspapers in which they were published, including those from abroad. The show “The Forgotten Raisins”, which was created with the support of the Erich Ohser House in Plauen, can be seen from April 25th to September 17th.
Happiness in love
Comedian Mel Kelly.
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Comedian promises a crash course in love Mel Kelly. In 61 minutes and two seconds he will tell you how to find the love of your life on Saturday, April 20th. At least that’s how it worked for him. The Dublin native, IT specialist, speaker and author came to Munich in 2003 for a job, originally only for a short time. Now he is in solid hands and an important player in the city’s German-English comedy scene, whose customs he initially found strange. So much so that he now jokes about it – in the Shamrock Pub, Trautenwolfstraße 6, starting at 6 p.m.
Researcher life
Historian and museum man Helmuth Trischler.
(Photo: Stephan Rumpf)
In his office there are books about climate change, about Alexander von Humboldt, about mining and recycling and much more. Helmuth Trischler is a versatile person. He worked at the Deutsches Museum for 34 years, most of which was as research director. The historian accompanied the construction of the Schleißheim airship, developed a concept for the German Museum in Bonn, was involved in the founding of the Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology and is still co-director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, which opened in 2009 was brought to life by the Ludwig Maximilians University and the German Museum. His greatest exhibition success was “Welcome to the Anthropocene” in 2014, a show about how humans have shaped the face of the earth to this day. The Ulm native originally wanted to become a teacher, but then he did his doctorate on “Steiger in German Mining: On the Social History of Technical Employees 1815-1945”. In 1991 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on aerospace research in Germany. He has been a professor of modern and contemporary history as well as the history of technology at the LMU since 1997. In 2018 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina and in 2019 a member of the German Academy of Technical Sciences. Trischler will retire on his 66th birthday at the end of April. But he still has several book projects ahead of him – and he is ambitiously running marathons. The physicist Johannes-Geert Hagmann will temporarily take over the research area in the German Museum.
Age issues
Psychoanalyst Wolfgang Schmidbauer.
(Photo: Oliver Killig)
As early as 50, you should start thinking about getting older, says the psychoanalyst and author Wolfgang Schmidbauer. He recommends asking yourself questions such as: What contributes to the most positive attitude towards life in old age? What could life look like at 70? Can I make friends with my aging body? And how can I best accept possible changes? Schmidbauer, born in Munich in 1941, will talk about his many years of consulting experience from his practice in a panel event in the adult education center series “In Conversation”. He has written several books on the subject of aging, his most recently published being about the “big questions of aging” (Ecowing Verlag). He admits that he himself is also familiar with the strategy of repression. Tickets for the evening at the “Einstein 28” educational center (Einsteinstrasse 28) are available for ten euros. Registration with the course number S142020 by phone at 48006-6239 or on the website www.mvhs.de.