What's on in Germany: October 7 - 13
This Week's Highlights: Urban art in Berlin, books take centre stage in Frankfurt, and a Marc Chagall exhibition opens in Hamburg.
BERLIN
Galleries/Museums
Victor Ash Exhibition Opening
There's an enormous astronaut on the side of a building at Kotbusser Tor. Perhaps you've spotted it while riding the U1. The supersized spaceman was created by Portuguese artist Victor Ash in 2007. Three years later, the artist is getting his very own solo exhibition. Stop by Pavilion Saturday for more of his larger than life graphics.
Price: Free
Location: Pavilion, Gerichtstrasse 23
Times: Saturday, October 9, 6pm; through October 23
More Information: mypavilion.de
Galleries/Museums
Stroke.03 Urban Art Fair
There are a lot of art events taking place in Berlin this week. If you're more into skateboarding than still lifes, check this one out. Art with an urban edge is its focus. See the work of street artists, contemporary pop artists, and digital artists from across Europe in one of Berlin's historic postal freight depots.
Price: €8
Location: Station-Berlin, Luckenwalder Strasse 4-6
Times: Thursday, October 7, 6-11pm (opening); Friday, October 8 and Saturday, October 9, 1-11pm; Sunday, October 10, 1-6pm
More Information: www.stroke-artfair.com
Music/Concerts
Videoart at Midnight - Chris Newman & Miss Moth
The outrageous English interdisciplinary artist Chris Newman has translated Russian poetry and played in a chamber punk rock band. He's a singer, a composer, a painter, and a sculptor. On Friday night, this Renaissance man joins pianist Bill Dietz and guitarist Seth Josel to sing songs dating as far back as 1983 while existential videos project on the big screen.
Price: Free
Location: Babylon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Times: Friday, October 8, midnight
More Information: videoart-at-midnight.blogspot.com
COLOGNE
Music/Concerts
Sidsel Endresen and Hakon Kornstad
"Norway Reloaded" is the theme of this year's Equinox Music Festival, and the festival producers have done a nice job rounding up some of the fjord-fringed country's finest players. Jazz singer Sidsel Endresen and saxophonist Hakon Kornstad rendezvous at Herz-Jesu Kirche, Wednesday.
Price: €23
Location: Herz-Jesu Kirche, Zülpicher Platz
Times: Wednesdday, October 13, 8pm
More Information: www.equinox-festival.de
FRANKFURT
Events
Frankfurt Book Fair
Got a Kindle? What about an iPad? Bring them to this year's Frankfurt Book Fair. Digitisation in publishing is one of the event's main topics. But don't fret if you're still a sucker for the printed page, the festival program is packed with an assortment of events for literary lovers.
Price: €14 (Day Ticket); €20 (Weekend Ticket)
Location: Messegelaende, Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1
Times: Saturday, October 9, 9am-6:30pm; Sunday, October 10, 9am-5:30pm
More Information: www.frankfurt-bookfair.com
HAMBURG
Galleries/Museums
Marc Chagall - Life Lines
Marc Chagall included a lot of personal experiences in his art. Canvases like "The Lovers," "The Rabbi," and "Crucifixion," reveal the artist's sentiments on things like his wife and his religion. For the first time, an extraordinary collection of works from the Israel Museum is on display in Germany. Spend some time among these exquisite paintings and drawings this weekend when this major exhibition opens at Hamburg's Bucerius Kunst Forum.
Price: €8
Location: Bucerius Kunst Forum, Rathausmarkt 2
Times: Daily 11am-7pm; Thursdays 11am-9pm; Friday, October 8 - January 16
Phone: 040 36 09 960
More Information: www.buceriuskunstforum.de
Music/Concerts
The Little Ring
Is there a little opera lover blossoming at your house? The Opera Loft has condensed Wagner's 16-hour Ring cycle into an 80-minute kid-friendly version for children over seven. The wee ones will be enchanted by Rhinemaidens, dragons, and valkyries.
Price: €14.25 (Children), €15.90 (Adults)
Location: Das Neue Opernloft, Fuhlentwiete 7
Times: Saturday, October 9, 3pm
More Information: www.opernloft.de
MUNICH
Galleries/Museums
Octoberfest 1810-2010
You've boozed with the best of them. Broke out the lederhosen every fall, and raised that beer mug high in the air. Of course you know that this year marks Octoberfest's 200th anniversary. But did you know this beloved beer chugging event began as a horse race in honour of the Bavarian crown prince's marriage? Find out more about Germany's most famous annual event at the Munich City Museum.
Price: €6
Location: Münchner Stadtmuseum, St.-Jakobs-Platz 1
Times: Tuesday, 10am-9pm; Wednesday - Sunday, 10am-6pm; through October 31
Phone: 089 233 22370
More Information: www.stadtmuseum-online.de
Funeral Train - Photography by Paul Fusco
Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, leaving a nation already in mourning over the deaths of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., stunned. Photojournalist Paul Fusco hopped on board the "funeral train," which carried Bobby's body from New York to Washington D.C., and captured the scenery along the way. An exhibition of Fusco's photographs begins Friday at Amerika Haus in Munich.
Price: Free
Location: Amerika Haus, Karolinenplatz 3
Times: Friday, October 8, 7pm (Opening); Monday - Friday, 12-5pm; Wednesday, 12-8pm; Monday, October 11 - December 17 (Regular Hours)
Phone: 089 55 25 370
More Information: www. amerikahaus.de
Theatre
'Pochsy’s Lips' at the BeMe Theatre
This month Munich’s professional English-language theatre premieres a black comedy featuring award-winning Canadian writer and performer Karen Hines, who portrays a mercury-poisoned factory worker in a satire that is part stand-up, part neo-cabaret. The one-woman show is a biting postmodern parody of consumer culture gone mad.
Price: €18/€12 Students/€15 groups of 10 or more
Location: EINSTEIN Kulturzentrum, Einsteinstrasse 42
Times: Tuesday, October 12, 8:30pm (through October 30)
More Information: www.BeMeTheatre.com
Music/Concerts
Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio
No one tickles the Hammond B3 quite like Dr. Lonnie Smith. Guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg and drummer Jamire Williams join the turbaned maestro Wednesday night at the Night Club Bar at Munich's Bayerischer Hof Hotel.
Price: €32
Location: Bayerischer Hof, Night Club Bar,
Times: Wednesday, October 13, 9pm
Phone: 089 2120 999
More Information: www.bayerischerhof.de
STUTTGART
Galleries/Museums
Great Little Artists
Stuttgart kindergarteners are making art, thanks to a partnership between the Stuttgart Art Museum and the Robert Bosch Foundation. The museum's latest exhibition "Great Little Artists" showcases the fruits of the inaugural project. See the finger paintings and colourful collages of 3 to 6-year-olds through the end of the month.
Price: €5; €11 (Family)
Location: Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Kleiner Schlossplatz 1
Times: Tuesday - Sunday, 10am-6pm; Wednesday and Friday, 10am-9pm; through October 31
Phone: 0711 216 21 88
More Information: www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de
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BERLIN
Galleries/Museums
Victor Ash Exhibition Opening
There's an enormous astronaut on the side of a building at Kotbusser Tor. Perhaps you've spotted it while riding the U1. The supersized spaceman was created by Portuguese artist Victor Ash in 2007. Three years later, the artist is getting his very own solo exhibition. Stop by Pavilion Saturday for more of his larger than life graphics.
Price: Free
Location: Pavilion, Gerichtstrasse 23
Times: Saturday, October 9, 6pm; through October 23
More Information: mypavilion.de
Galleries/Museums
Stroke.03 Urban Art Fair
There are a lot of art events taking place in Berlin this week. If you're more into skateboarding than still lifes, check this one out. Art with an urban edge is its focus. See the work of street artists, contemporary pop artists, and digital artists from across Europe in one of Berlin's historic postal freight depots.
Price: €8
Location: Station-Berlin, Luckenwalder Strasse 4-6
Times: Thursday, October 7, 6-11pm (opening); Friday, October 8 and Saturday, October 9, 1-11pm; Sunday, October 10, 1-6pm
More Information: www.stroke-artfair.com
Music/Concerts
Videoart at Midnight - Chris Newman & Miss Moth
The outrageous English interdisciplinary artist Chris Newman has translated Russian poetry and played in a chamber punk rock band. He's a singer, a composer, a painter, and a sculptor. On Friday night, this Renaissance man joins pianist Bill Dietz and guitarist Seth Josel to sing songs dating as far back as 1983 while existential videos project on the big screen.
Price: Free
Location: Babylon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Times: Friday, October 8, midnight
More Information: videoart-at-midnight.blogspot.com
COLOGNE
Music/Concerts
Sidsel Endresen and Hakon Kornstad
"Norway Reloaded" is the theme of this year's Equinox Music Festival, and the festival producers have done a nice job rounding up some of the fjord-fringed country's finest players. Jazz singer Sidsel Endresen and saxophonist Hakon Kornstad rendezvous at Herz-Jesu Kirche, Wednesday.
Price: €23
Location: Herz-Jesu Kirche, Zülpicher Platz
Times: Wednesdday, October 13, 8pm
More Information: www.equinox-festival.de
FRANKFURT
Events
Frankfurt Book Fair
Got a Kindle? What about an iPad? Bring them to this year's Frankfurt Book Fair. Digitisation in publishing is one of the event's main topics. But don't fret if you're still a sucker for the printed page, the festival program is packed with an assortment of events for literary lovers.
Price: €14 (Day Ticket); €20 (Weekend Ticket)
Location: Messegelaende, Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1
Times: Saturday, October 9, 9am-6:30pm; Sunday, October 10, 9am-5:30pm
More Information: www.frankfurt-bookfair.com
HAMBURG
Galleries/Museums
Marc Chagall - Life Lines
Marc Chagall included a lot of personal experiences in his art. Canvases like "The Lovers," "The Rabbi," and "Crucifixion," reveal the artist's sentiments on things like his wife and his religion. For the first time, an extraordinary collection of works from the Israel Museum is on display in Germany. Spend some time among these exquisite paintings and drawings this weekend when this major exhibition opens at Hamburg's Bucerius Kunst Forum.
Price: €8
Location: Bucerius Kunst Forum, Rathausmarkt 2
Times: Daily 11am-7pm; Thursdays 11am-9pm; Friday, October 8 - January 16
Phone: 040 36 09 960
More Information: www.buceriuskunstforum.de
Music/Concerts
The Little Ring
Is there a little opera lover blossoming at your house? The Opera Loft has condensed Wagner's 16-hour Ring cycle into an 80-minute kid-friendly version for children over seven. The wee ones will be enchanted by Rhinemaidens, dragons, and valkyries.
Price: €14.25 (Children), €15.90 (Adults)
Location: Das Neue Opernloft, Fuhlentwiete 7
Times: Saturday, October 9, 3pm
More Information: www.opernloft.de
MUNICH
Galleries/Museums
Octoberfest 1810-2010
You've boozed with the best of them. Broke out the lederhosen every fall, and raised that beer mug high in the air. Of course you know that this year marks Octoberfest's 200th anniversary. But did you know this beloved beer chugging event began as a horse race in honour of the Bavarian crown prince's marriage? Find out more about Germany's most famous annual event at the Munich City Museum.
Price: €6
Location: Münchner Stadtmuseum, St.-Jakobs-Platz 1
Times: Tuesday, 10am-9pm; Wednesday - Sunday, 10am-6pm; through October 31
Phone: 089 233 22370
More Information: www.stadtmuseum-online.de
Funeral Train - Photography by Paul Fusco
Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, leaving a nation already in mourning over the deaths of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., stunned. Photojournalist Paul Fusco hopped on board the "funeral train," which carried Bobby's body from New York to Washington D.C., and captured the scenery along the way. An exhibition of Fusco's photographs begins Friday at Amerika Haus in Munich.
Price: Free
Location: Amerika Haus, Karolinenplatz 3
Times: Friday, October 8, 7pm (Opening); Monday - Friday, 12-5pm; Wednesday, 12-8pm; Monday, October 11 - December 17 (Regular Hours)
Phone: 089 55 25 370
More Information: www. amerikahaus.de
Theatre
'Pochsy’s Lips' at the BeMe Theatre
This month Munich’s professional English-language theatre premieres a black comedy featuring award-winning Canadian writer and performer Karen Hines, who portrays a mercury-poisoned factory worker in a satire that is part stand-up, part neo-cabaret. The one-woman show is a biting postmodern parody of consumer culture gone mad.
Price: €18/€12 Students/€15 groups of 10 or more
Location: EINSTEIN Kulturzentrum, Einsteinstrasse 42
Times: Tuesday, October 12, 8:30pm (through October 30)
More Information: www.BeMeTheatre.com
Music/Concerts
Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio
No one tickles the Hammond B3 quite like Dr. Lonnie Smith. Guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg and drummer Jamire Williams join the turbaned maestro Wednesday night at the Night Club Bar at Munich's Bayerischer Hof Hotel.
Price: €32
Location: Bayerischer Hof, Night Club Bar,
Times: Wednesday, October 13, 9pm
Phone: 089 2120 999
More Information: www.bayerischerhof.de
STUTTGART
Galleries/Museums
Great Little Artists
Stuttgart kindergarteners are making art, thanks to a partnership between the Stuttgart Art Museum and the Robert Bosch Foundation. The museum's latest exhibition "Great Little Artists" showcases the fruits of the inaugural project. See the finger paintings and colourful collages of 3 to 6-year-olds through the end of the month.
Price: €5; €11 (Family)
Location: Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Kleiner Schlossplatz 1
Times: Tuesday - Sunday, 10am-6pm; Wednesday and Friday, 10am-9pm; through October 31
Phone: 0711 216 21 88
More Information: www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de
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