Five for Munich: Maria Furtwängler, Lena Gorelik, Anni Goetze – Munich

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You aim high. Merrell Hiking Club Germany is an inclusive group led by women who want to explore all things hiking. So also how nature can best be staged and most skilfully photographed, a little more professionally than the obligatory summit selfie. The outdoor influencer gives tips on the golden ratio and good photos in unfavorable lighting conditions Annie Goetze right in the field or on the mountain. On 16.8. a hiking tour for women takes place on the Croda Rossa in the Mangfall mountains, but men are also allowed to participate. It starts at 10 a.m. from the bus parking lot in Erhardstraße in the Isarvorstadt, tickets can be booked online for 12 euros. The tour is also led by the mountain guides Laura Schütt and Sabrina Marty. A certain level of fitness is required for 14 kilometers and around 750 meters in altitude. Goetze is definitely not lacking in that. Even as a child she was in the mountains, but less for hiking and more for skiing. When she became a mother herself and her daughter Lotta was six months old, she went hiking in the summer. She took photos of her trips and uploaded them to Instagram. Now the elementary school teacher works part-time as a photographer. She advises taking snacks with you, such as bars or fruit, and enough liquids. On the layering principle with several layers of clothing and especially good shoes. If you squeeze or get blisters, a hike can quickly become torture. Hiking shoes are therefore compulsory for the tour in mid-August, and sneakers and sandals are even forbidden. Also very important: don’t forget your cell phone.

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The Munich Media Days will take place from October 25th to 27th this year. More than 350 communication experts will come together in the Werksviertel for three days. Key topics include artificial intelligence, streaming projects, podcasts, social media and marketing. Now some speaker names have become known, including the Munich actress Maria Furtwangler (photo) and US producer Evan Shapiro. Bavaria’s state parliament president Ilse Aigner (CSU) and the chairwoman of the German Ethics Council, Alena Buyx, have also confirmed. More at medientage.de

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She lives with multiple cultures and is adept at turning her life experiences into prose. Lena Gorelik is one of the most important voices in recent German literature. Her most recently published autobiographical novel “Wer wir sind” (Rowohlt) was highly praised by critics. In it she deals with the topic of emigration and the new beginning in the West, the search and finding of one’s own identity as a migrant, as a woman, as a Jewess, as a German. But Gorelik’s works are also a reflection of German society. Born in Saint Petersburg in 1981, Gorelik came to Germany with her Russian-Jewish family at the age of eleven. She graduated from the German School of Journalism and studied Eastern European Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In addition to books and essays, Gorelik also writes plays and radio plays as well as essays and reports. The Munich-based writer will receive this year’s Marieluise Fleißer Prize from the city of Ingolstadt, which will be awarded in November.

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Few groups of artists survive for such a long period of time. The Munich Seerosenkreis celebrates its 75th anniversary with the exhibition “New Blossoms – Nympheae Agens” in the Munich Künstlerhaus. The water lily speakers invite you there Petra Herrmann and Tobias Krug on Wednesday, August 16, for the literary evening. Former Lord Mayor Christian Ude will cast his own cheerful gaze on the fine arts. Katinka Schneweis exchanges ideas with Sybille Engels about her artistic work. Wall artist Martin Blumöhr interviews this year’s Seerosen award winner Sinda Dimroth about her life and work, and the writer Alma Larsen reads from her writings. Barbara Mahr accompanies the evening with singing and guitar. More than 30 Munich artists are involved in the exhibition with drawings, paintings, sculptures and photographs. The circle of water lilies once symbolized an important part of Munich’s post-war culture. It was created in 1948 in the “Seerose” restaurant in Schwabing, which gave it its name, as a meeting place for artists who had survived the war and ostracism by the Nazi regime. Participants at the regulars’ table included the later city councilor Franz Forchheimer, the later publisher Hans-Jörg Dürrmeier and Hans-Jochen Vogel, the later mayor of Munich. At some point, writers and artists parted ways because the “water lily” became too small. The writers went to the Schwabinger Seidlvilla, the visual artists to the Munich Künstlerhaus. But both groups still feel that they belong together. (The exhibition runs until August 25).

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“It’s pure anarchy, it’s a regulars’ table,” says Joseph Zapf about his group. It is called the Niederbayerischer Musikantenstammtisch and has been playing in Munich pubs for many years, so that it is now a hobby guitarist and mayor Dieter Rider even wound a small verbal garland for the Munich clarinettist on his 60th birthday, which is to be celebrated on Monday. “You are a musician through and through,” writes Reiter, “who sees the roots of regional music in Munich society as a natural part of everyday musical culture.” In doing so, Zapf connects a wide variety of musicians.