What's on in Germany: November 17 - 23
This Week's Highlights: African film in Berlin, computer art in Dresden, and Al Di Meola plays Stuttgart.
BERLIN
Film
Afrikamera 2011: African Filmfestivals – Beyond Present and Future
Movies from African film festivals like Rencontres du Film Court in Madagascar and the Kenya International Film Festival are being shown in Berlin this week. See shorts from Rwanda, and find out what happens to Aicha and Radhia after the owners of an abandoned palace they've been living in come home, in Tunisian director Raja Amari's Les Secrets.
Price: €6.50
Location: Kino Arsenal, Potsdamer Strasse 2
Times: November 16 - 20
Phone: 030 2695 5111
More Information: www.arsenal-berlin.de
Children’s Events
Fairytale Days
Sing American children's songs Thursday during Berlin Fairytale Days. Stories from the USA take centre stage at this year's event, and highlights include a Native American market at Nikolaiviertel where the kids can take a peak inside an actual Indian teepee, and a Thanksgiving celebration for children complete with paper pilgrim hats and turkey crafts.
Price: Various
Location: Various
Times: November 10 - 27
More Information: www.maerchenland-ev.de
COLOGNE
Music/Concerts
Nocturne 40: Stephan Matthieu
Stephen Matthieu has created sound installations in some really interesting spaces, including a glass blowing factory and an antique throne hall. For his piece "A Static Place," the Saarbrücken-based artist and composer pulled from his collection of 1920s-era recordings, digitally processing the sounds of Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque music played through a gramophone. Hear this piece and "Les Chemins de Fer" Thursday night in Cologne.
Price: Free
Location: Aula der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Filzengraben 2
Times: Thursday, November 17, 8pm
Phone: 0221 201 890
More Information: www.khm.de
DRESDEN
Festivals
Cynetart - International Festival for Computer Based Art Dresden
Glitch. Beep. Click. Lights flash. Shadows emerge. Colours shift. The Cynetart Festival gathers artists from all over the world who use computers to create their multisensoric installations, hi-tech dance pieces, and multi-channel sound systems. Experience new developments in digital culture this week in Dresden.
Price: Various
Location: Festspielhaus Hellerau, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 56
Times: Wednesday, November 16 - Saturday, November 26
Tickets: 0351 8 62 73 90
More Information: www.t-m-a.de
FRANKFURT
Galleries/Museums
Douglas Gordon
First, he slowed down Psycho to a terrifying 24-hour crawl. Then, he caught on film every breath and strut of French soccer star Zinedine Zidane. For his latest work k.364, Scottish artist Douglas Gordon filmed violist Avri Levitan, violinist Roi Shiloah and the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio performing Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola. The film begins with the soloists’ journey from Berlin to Warsaw, and the most fascinating part is the conversation that ensues en route. See it along with more of the MMK’s Gordon holdings when the new exhibition opens at MMK Thursday.
Price: €5
Location: MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Domstrasse 10
Times: Thursday, November 17, 8pm (Opening); Tuesday - Sunday, 10am-6pm; Wednesday, 10am-8pm; November 19 - March 25, 2012 (Regular Hours)
Phone: 069 212 30447
More Information: www.mmk-frankfurt.de
Festivals
Visionale 11 - Hessian Youth Media Festival
From toddlers to twenty somethings, this media festival offers an array of films and videos for all aspects of the youth spectrum. Short animations, documentaries, and music videos created by young filmmakers explore all the hot topics from football to BFFs. The kids are all right.
Price: TBD
Location: Gallus Theater, Kleyerstrasse 15
Times: Friday, November 18 - Sunday, November 20
Phone: 069 949 424 22
More Information: www.visionale-hessen.de
HAMBURG
Galleries/Museums
The Collection of Groundskeeper Wilhelm Werner
Talk about loving your place of employment. When bombs were falling over Hamburg during the Second World War, Hamburger Kunsthalle custodian Wilhelm Werner stood on the roof and extinguished the explosives that landed there. During his 38 years at the museum, Werner became acquainted with many artists and amassed a collection of over 500 works by the likes of Heinrich Stegemann, Willem Grimm, and Hans Martin Ruwoldt. Go take a look at his private collection this week at the Hamburger Kunsthalle.
Price: €12
Location: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Glockengiesserwall 20095
Times: Tuesdays - Sundays, 10am-6pm; Thursdays, 10am-9pm; through January 15, 2012
Phone: 0 40 428 131 200
More Information: www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de
MUNICH
Theatre
Spielart
DJ Heiner Hendrix holds court Friday night at Muffatwerk during Spielart’s opening party. The two-week festival features some of the most innovative new theatre from around the world. Get wrapped up in Trans-Europa-Bollywood’s “performical” “God’s Entertainment,” then take a nap at Angelika Fink and Satu Herrala’s installation “Sleep for Africa.”
Price: Various; €70 Festival Pass
Location: Various
Times: Friday, November 18 - Sunday, December 4
Tickets: 180 54 81 81 81 (€ 0.14 per minute landline; € 0.42 mobile)
More Information: www.spielart.org
Music/Concerts
Joshua Redman and Brad Meldau Duo
Two of New York's brightest jazz stars are playing in Munich Thursday night. Sidle up to a table within the underground recesses of Unterfahrt and witness the musical conversation of an exceptional duo.
Price: €35-45
Location: Jazzclub Unterfahrt, Einsteinstrasse 42
Times: Thursday, November 17, 8:30pm
Phone: 089 448 27 94
More Information: www.unterfahrt.de
Public Art
Seven Screens - Herlinde Koelbl
“You have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it” is the title of German photographer and filmmaker Herlinde Koelbl’s video installation for Osram Art Project’s Seven Screens. Inspired by Solomon’s “Song of Songs,” the piece centers on the importance of seeing. Blink along to the big eyes and lips that flash across the six-meter high LED towers.
Price: Free
Location: The green at Osram Headquarters, Hellabrunner Strasse 1
Times: through May 15, 2012
More Information: www.osram.com
STUTTGART
Music/Concerts
Jazz Open Nights Stuttgart - Al Di Meola
Al Di Meola started tearing a streak through the jazz world at age 19 when he joined Chick Corea’s band Return to Forever. A few years later he joined guitar cohorts John Mclaughlin and Paco de Lucia on the legendary album Friday Night in San Francisco. Catch the virtuoso in concert Friday night in Stuttgart.
Price: €34.55 - 39.55
Location: Mercedes-Benz Museum, Mercedesstrasse 100
Times: Friday, November 18, 8pm
Tickets: 0711 99 79 99 99
More Information: www. newsroom.mercedes-benz-classic.com
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BERLIN
Film
Afrikamera 2011: African Filmfestivals – Beyond Present and Future
Movies from African film festivals like Rencontres du Film Court in Madagascar and the Kenya International Film Festival are being shown in Berlin this week. See shorts from Rwanda, and find out what happens to Aicha and Radhia after the owners of an abandoned palace they've been living in come home, in Tunisian director Raja Amari's Les Secrets.
Price: €6.50
Location: Kino Arsenal, Potsdamer Strasse 2
Times: November 16 - 20
Phone: 030 2695 5111
More Information: www.arsenal-berlin.de
Children’s Events
Fairytale Days
Sing American children's songs Thursday during Berlin Fairytale Days. Stories from the USA take centre stage at this year's event, and highlights include a Native American market at Nikolaiviertel where the kids can take a peak inside an actual Indian teepee, and a Thanksgiving celebration for children complete with paper pilgrim hats and turkey crafts.
Price: Various
Location: Various
Times: November 10 - 27
More Information: www.maerchenland-ev.de
COLOGNE
Music/Concerts
Nocturne 40: Stephan Matthieu
Stephen Matthieu has created sound installations in some really interesting spaces, including a glass blowing factory and an antique throne hall. For his piece "A Static Place," the Saarbrücken-based artist and composer pulled from his collection of 1920s-era recordings, digitally processing the sounds of Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque music played through a gramophone. Hear this piece and "Les Chemins de Fer" Thursday night in Cologne.
Price: Free
Location: Aula der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Filzengraben 2
Times: Thursday, November 17, 8pm
Phone: 0221 201 890
More Information: www.khm.de
DRESDEN
Festivals
Cynetart - International Festival for Computer Based Art Dresden
Glitch. Beep. Click. Lights flash. Shadows emerge. Colours shift. The Cynetart Festival gathers artists from all over the world who use computers to create their multisensoric installations, hi-tech dance pieces, and multi-channel sound systems. Experience new developments in digital culture this week in Dresden.
Price: Various
Location: Festspielhaus Hellerau, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 56
Times: Wednesday, November 16 - Saturday, November 26
Tickets: 0351 8 62 73 90
More Information: www.t-m-a.de
FRANKFURT
Galleries/Museums
Douglas Gordon
First, he slowed down Psycho to a terrifying 24-hour crawl. Then, he caught on film every breath and strut of French soccer star Zinedine Zidane. For his latest work k.364, Scottish artist Douglas Gordon filmed violist Avri Levitan, violinist Roi Shiloah and the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio performing Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola. The film begins with the soloists’ journey from Berlin to Warsaw, and the most fascinating part is the conversation that ensues en route. See it along with more of the MMK’s Gordon holdings when the new exhibition opens at MMK Thursday.
Price: €5
Location: MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Domstrasse 10
Times: Thursday, November 17, 8pm (Opening); Tuesday - Sunday, 10am-6pm; Wednesday, 10am-8pm; November 19 - March 25, 2012 (Regular Hours)
Phone: 069 212 30447
More Information: www.mmk-frankfurt.de
Festivals
Visionale 11 - Hessian Youth Media Festival
From toddlers to twenty somethings, this media festival offers an array of films and videos for all aspects of the youth spectrum. Short animations, documentaries, and music videos created by young filmmakers explore all the hot topics from football to BFFs. The kids are all right.
Price: TBD
Location: Gallus Theater, Kleyerstrasse 15
Times: Friday, November 18 - Sunday, November 20
Phone: 069 949 424 22
More Information: www.visionale-hessen.de
HAMBURG
Galleries/Museums
The Collection of Groundskeeper Wilhelm Werner
Talk about loving your place of employment. When bombs were falling over Hamburg during the Second World War, Hamburger Kunsthalle custodian Wilhelm Werner stood on the roof and extinguished the explosives that landed there. During his 38 years at the museum, Werner became acquainted with many artists and amassed a collection of over 500 works by the likes of Heinrich Stegemann, Willem Grimm, and Hans Martin Ruwoldt. Go take a look at his private collection this week at the Hamburger Kunsthalle.
Price: €12
Location: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Glockengiesserwall 20095
Times: Tuesdays - Sundays, 10am-6pm; Thursdays, 10am-9pm; through January 15, 2012
Phone: 0 40 428 131 200
More Information: www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de
MUNICH
Theatre
Spielart
DJ Heiner Hendrix holds court Friday night at Muffatwerk during Spielart’s opening party. The two-week festival features some of the most innovative new theatre from around the world. Get wrapped up in Trans-Europa-Bollywood’s “performical” “God’s Entertainment,” then take a nap at Angelika Fink and Satu Herrala’s installation “Sleep for Africa.”
Price: Various; €70 Festival Pass
Location: Various
Times: Friday, November 18 - Sunday, December 4
Tickets: 180 54 81 81 81 (€ 0.14 per minute landline; € 0.42 mobile)
More Information: www.spielart.org
Music/Concerts
Joshua Redman and Brad Meldau Duo
Two of New York's brightest jazz stars are playing in Munich Thursday night. Sidle up to a table within the underground recesses of Unterfahrt and witness the musical conversation of an exceptional duo.
Price: €35-45
Location: Jazzclub Unterfahrt, Einsteinstrasse 42
Times: Thursday, November 17, 8:30pm
Phone: 089 448 27 94
More Information: www.unterfahrt.de
Public Art
Seven Screens - Herlinde Koelbl
“You have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it” is the title of German photographer and filmmaker Herlinde Koelbl’s video installation for Osram Art Project’s Seven Screens. Inspired by Solomon’s “Song of Songs,” the piece centers on the importance of seeing. Blink along to the big eyes and lips that flash across the six-meter high LED towers.
Price: Free
Location: The green at Osram Headquarters, Hellabrunner Strasse 1
Times: through May 15, 2012
More Information: www.osram.com
STUTTGART
Music/Concerts
Jazz Open Nights Stuttgart - Al Di Meola
Al Di Meola started tearing a streak through the jazz world at age 19 when he joined Chick Corea’s band Return to Forever. A few years later he joined guitar cohorts John Mclaughlin and Paco de Lucia on the legendary album Friday Night in San Francisco. Catch the virtuoso in concert Friday night in Stuttgart.
Price: €34.55 - 39.55
Location: Mercedes-Benz Museum, Mercedesstrasse 100
Times: Friday, November 18, 8pm
Tickets: 0711 99 79 99 99
More Information: www. newsroom.mercedes-benz-classic.com
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