Five for Munich: A zine for subculture, a cake to destroy – Munich

Art

Can shapes tell stories? Without people to act or speak? “Yes,” says the illustrator Amelie Lihl: “Everything is a narrative.” She proves that with her zines, which is what thin publications are called that she designs, prints and publishes herself. In “Shapeshifters” Lihl tells on 16 pages about shapes that she has drawn intricately and intricately, that overlap or don’t touch and that offer a lot of room for interpretation. There are 45 editions of the booklet that Lihl gives away to friends and family or sells for four euros each to cover the cost of materials. Sometimes she also offers her self-made magazines at markets or at the Zine Festival in Munich, which she has been involved in organizing for five years. “I want to spread the word about the indie comic and zine scene,” says Lihl. She wants to create a scene in her hometown like she knows from Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig. “And I want to be part of this subculture myself.” Lihl studied at the University of Design in Offenbach and graduated there in 2017. In Munich, she regularly gives workshops for risography in the Färberei (Claude-Lorrain-Straße 25), a project of the district youth council. This is a special printing process that uses stencils, similar to how screen printing works. “I mainly paint people. I wanted to leave that out,” says the 33-year-old. “Often my stories aren’t happy,” she adds. The topics they deal with are very different. From vacations to climate change and moving out of shared apartments to the Teletubbies.

Cake

The art student Hannah Jeong, 26, has found a special way to deal with homesickness. She has been studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Schirin Kretschmann’s class since 2018 and moved from South Korea to Munich for her studies. So far she hasn’t found a cake that tastes the way she knows it from her home country. So she bakes herself – according to Korean recipes that she finds on YouTube. “My chiffon cakes are particularly fluffy,” she says. And especially beautiful, as you can see on her Instagram account “budelcake”. She elaborately decorates the cakes with fresh berries, sliced ​​figs and real flowers. “It gives me the same feeling that I have when I paint,” says Jeong. With buttercream and icing she can express herself. For three years she has been baking to order with a recommended donation of 35 euros. About 20 fellow students have since made use of her art. But this is not for eternity: “They have to be destroyed in order to be enjoyed.”

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The German author Max Bronski receives the Radio Bremen Crime Prize 2023. “On the one hand, he succeeds in creating everyday, but on the other hand very unusual characters,” the jury justified its decision on Wednesday. The author uncompromisingly takes the side of the weaker, marginalized and deeply human border crossers. The jury also praised Bronski’s “clear and straightforward language, which is nevertheless full of humor and shows a tender affection for his characters”. The writer was born in Tutzing in 1953 as Franz-Maria Sonner. The author, who lives in Hanover and Munich, has been publishing crime novels under the pseudonym Max Bronski since 2006. In 2019 he received the Glauser Prize for the best crime novel of the year for his book “Oskar”. The award is to be presented to him on October 5th in the Small House of the Theater Bremen. The Radio Bremen Crime Prize has been awarded annually to German-speaking and international authors since 2001.

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The former champion coach Felix Magath shows understanding for the many changes of football stars to Saudi Arabia. “I don’t think it’s morally ok if the athletes are now supposed to do what the politicians and business people haven’t been able to do. They all do business where they can do business. And because the Saudis have now chosen football players, they should Soccer players save the world? No, I don’t think the world works like that,” said Magath on the ran Bundesliga web show. It is not the right argument to blame football players for it. “Everywhere in sport, the golfers, football players, go where there is the most money. That’s the whole society in the world. Why shouldn’t footballers be guided by that? I think that’s hypocritical,” added the 70-year-old Look at the transfers of Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar, Karim Benzema and many more players to Saudi Arabia. Magath himself would have no problem with a coaching job in Saudi Arabia. “I dared the adventure to China. It doesn’t matter to me whether I work in Western Europe, America or Asia. If something is interesting from a sporting point of view, it’s interesting for me,” said the coach, who presented Hertha BSC a year ago had saved the relegation to the second division. The coach would also have confidence in a Bundesliga club. Until an offer reaches him, however, he continues to live in Grünwald, where he moved in 2004, near TSV 1860 Munich, which means that Magath is regularly considered by fans as a life-saving change of coach. He is currently primarily the coach of FC Bundestag.

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Stephanie Bruecks is the new permanent representative of the President of Missio Munich, Monsignor Wolfgang Huber. As a board member, the 55-year-old will help shape the development processes of the Catholic missionary work together with the president. And she takes on the issues of compliance and prevention of abuse. After studying economics, Stephanie Brücks worked, among other things, as an audit manager at the auditing company KPMG. Since 2015 she has been working as an auditor on numerous auditing and consulting projects in Germany and abroad at the Association of German Diocese (VDD).