Interviewed by Yvonne Poppek, AugsburgThe ideas of the cultural anthropologist, musician and performance artist Julian Warner for the Brecht Festival in Augsburg are new, and sometimes strange and unexpected. Warner, born in 1985, chose Lechhausen as the festival location for the 125th birthday of the poet Bertolt Brecht. There shouldn't be a classic like "Mother Courage" there, but instead a banquet, parade, and later also wrestling. Also, food comes first, then morale. Why? He can explain that conclusively and with...
In his new book, publicist Kaevan Gazdar investigates how Bavaria managed to rise from a poor house to a prosperous paradise. His summary: The success is not the merit of the CSU. The foundations were laid much earlier. From Hans KratzThose Bavarians! How hard they are for the rest of the republic to endure is regularly shown in the football arenas, where the fans roar and announce that they want to take off their lederhosen. The attacks sound even more...
Julian Warner directs the Augsburg Brecht Festival for the first time. Instead of rummaging through the works of the poet Bertolt Brecht, he prefers to link his ideas with the here and now. How does that work?Interviewed by Yvonne Poppek, AugsburgThe ideas of the cultural anthropologist, musician and performance artist Julian Warner for the Brecht Festival in Augsburg are new, and sometimes strange and unexpected. Warner, born in 1985, chose Lechhausen as the festival location for the 125th birthday of...
The question of whether Bertolt Brecht likes Augsburg has been clarified. "Yes, I like Augsburg," comes the answer. "It's a beautiful city with a rich history and culture. I have many fond memories of my time there and I always love to come back." Admittedly, that sounds very formal and unbrokenly positive. Perhaps Brecht should hone his words a bit more. Or rather, the artificial intelligence GPT3 should do this. Especially for the Brecht Festival from February 10th to 19th...
It's a topic that's often relegated to the corner of the brain that's responsible for repression: care in old age. Politicians have shown it, the problem can be ignored until an emergency arises. Then it flies in your face, to put it mildly. One would not necessarily have guessed that old age, care and also the approaching death due to old age are subjects that one day push their way onto the stage. Who likes to look at what they...
The successor to Valery Gergiev, who was fired because of his closeness to Putin, is certain: the Israeli Shani will conduct the Philharmonic in the future.As a piano soloist and double bass player, he also knows the other side of the podium - but Lahav Shani is appointed conductor in Munich. He succeeds Valery Gergiev, whom the city fired almost a year ago because of his closeness to Putin after the start of the war.On Wednesday morning, the city council...
There is a lot of talk about fathers this evening. As the 94-year-old explains, Karl Stankiewitz' father came from Poland. Deniz Aykanat reads what she experienced when she was a five-year-old blonde on vacation in her father's hometown of Marmaris on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. Oliver Das Gupta, who holds the eulogy for the journalist, does not fail to mention that his father originally came from India. And the cabaret artist Christian Springer, who pays tribute to Stankiewitz, weaves in his...
The British urban researcher Charles Landry speaks excellent German. He studied in Munich for some time during its wild, eventful years half a century ago. On the opening evening of the "Initiative Kulturzukunft" he sums up his analysis of what is currently going on in this country in his native language: "Death by delay!". In English: death by dawdling, the infirmity as a result of never-ending delays.The people in the packed hall of the Academic Choral Society in downtown Munich...
At the beginning of the pandemic, many cultural workers waited for weeks for politics to be mentioned in their deadly serious public speeches. They who had to cope with the rigorous closure of their theatres, concert halls, stages, cinemas and museums while the hardware stores were already open again. But first nothing came for a long time, then the incorporation under the category "brothels and amusement parks". Not meant to be funny. A slap in the office, which now shows...
What helps against the emigration of young people from the countryside to the cities and how protection against right-wing extremist appropriation in the countryside can be achieved are the topics of a study by the universities of Bamberg and Eichstätt. The Catholic University of Eichstätt (KU) announced on Thursday that they want to look at self-organized projects in the border triangle of Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia.The researchers wanted to see how youth culture works in structurally and financially weak rural...
