save lives
Music for a good cause: In order to save the life of a baby in Turkey, Munich artists came together for a spontaneous benefit concert. The actress Jelena Kuljić is an ensemble member of the Munich Kammerspiele, but also a performer and trained jazz singer. Together with BashBouzouki’s alias Asmir Sabic Chaspa, who weaves the traditional bouzouki with electronics to create an intense carpet of sound, she will perform at the Kreativquartier on Friday, April 12th. Also taking part are: the musician and author Angela Aux alias Florian Kreier, who composes electronic music for theater and film (for example for “Tatort” or the film “My Son”), the dancer and choreographer Ceren Oran together with the harpist Melis Çom , musician Sezgin Inceel and the Ringstreet Trio. The following DJs appear: Süperfly, Afrodermatitis and Seducation.
They are all committed to helping little Kuzey in Turkey. The baby, born in February, suffers from spinal muscular atrophy and can only survive if he receives gene therapy as quickly as possible, which is only possible abroad. Friends and colleagues of the parents in Turkey have already raised a third of the necessary sum, around two million US dollars. Kuzey’s aunt Melisa Kaya, artistic advisor at the Munich Kammerspiele, hopes that the remaining amount will be raised through international help.
The concert in Hall 6, Dachauer Straße 112d, starts at 8 p.m. Tickets and donation options at shortlinks.de/tnmk.
Earn praise
Entrepreneur and podcaster Inga Bergen.
(Photo: Jonas Friedrich)
Inga Bergenconsultant and entrepreneur, will be honored with the “ForNet Award” for her “outstanding commitment” to digitalization in healthcare. The award is presented by the Center for Digital Public Services at the Technical University of Munich and Juris GmbH. Bergen convinced the jury with her way, how she communicates the opportunities of digitalization through publications and lectures as well as through her presence on social media, especially in her podcast “Visionaries of Health.” She will receive the prize, a sculpture by the Passau artist Josef Nistler, on April 18th.
Shake people up
Inclusion activist and author Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen.
(Photo: Anna Spindelndreier)
Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen is an author and activist, blogger and podcast host, as well as a telephone counselor and a degree in communications management – and he uses a wheelchair because his feet can’t support him. Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen, born in 1980 in Lima, Peru, has osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease. He has long been committed to inclusion and brings people with and without physical limitations together. For his social commitment he was awarded, among other things, the Federal Cross of Merit and the Grimme Online Award. In 2023, his non-fiction book “If you want inclusion, you will find a way. If you don’t want it, you will find excuses” by Rowohlt Verlag. In this book, Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen gets fundamental and asks uncomfortable questions about inclusion in Germany. He calls on readers to deal with their own discriminatory thoughts and their possible resulting behavior. “Inclusion is a social process that concerns us all and that we all shape together,” says the author, who lives in Berlin.
He comes to Munich on Wednesday, April 10th. At the event in the city library in HP8 (Room X) he will read from his book and join in Oswald Utzthe city’s volunteer representative for the disabled, who is also dependent on a wheelchair. Helmut Obst from the Pfennigparade Foundation moderated the evening. It starts at 7 p.m. and admission is free. Tickets are available via Munich Ticket. Readings and conversations will be transmitted in sign language.
Feel love
Young adult author Yasmin Shakarami.
(Photo: Michelle Franka)
The Munich author Yasmin Shakarami won the Delia Literature Prize 2024. Her debut novel “Tokioregen” was honored by the Association of German-Speaking Romance Authors in the Young Love category. During the 2011 earthquake, the Munich resident, who lived in Japan for a while after graduating from high school, experienced first-hand what happens to a highly organized city with over a million inhabitants like Tokyo when it suddenly plunges into chaos. In the book, the literary scholarship holder from the city of Munich processes her experiences from that time and tells of great love, loss and the search for herself.
Learn to read
Archivist and Sütterlin expert Joachim Friedl.
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Ludwig Sütterlin could not have imagined at the time that clean handwriting would no longer be important. When he developed the cursive script named after him for the Prussian Ministry of Education in 1911, messages were not yet sent by email and no forms were filled out on the computer. If we want to understand our ancestors and read their letters or documents, we have difficulty deciphering the squiggly letters. “It’s like a foreign language,” says the historian Joachim Friedl from the Munich City Archives. Reading becomes more fluent the more you push through it. Friedl, 44, the city’s archivist for three years, regularly gives courses for people who want to decipher Grandpa’s love letters, for example. “The need is great,” he says. In fact, it was primarily private family researchers who were interested in the writing. On two evenings, Tuesdays, April 16th and 23rd, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Friedl will introduce the basics of Sütterlin. Registration via the city archives, the course costs 18 euros.