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The Bottom Line/What Really Matters
One group goes to school, the other stands in front of it. One group is picked up by their parents, the other by their customers. Only several hundred metres away from the Junges Ensemble Stuttgart (JES) is Stuttgart’s red-light district. That’s...
Long Live International Solidarity!
The Berlin-based theatre collective Futur II Konjunktiv and the Theater Trier are jointly investigating the political emotions of fear and solidarity as a motivation for political action over a period of two seasons. In Karl Marx’s city of birth, the...
The Jellyfish of Death, or Whoever Whispers Is a Liar
How can one transcend the cruelty and indifference of tyranny when one’s only options are obscenity or death? The musical theatre collective HAUEN UND STECHEN explores the utopian potential of two operas which address the hopelessness of violence and...
Chinafrika. under construction
Both China and the African continent are regions of the world in which many see the future of globalisation. While observers have been closely watching the complex economic and political ties being forged between China and African countries, their...
Cours, cours, camarade, le vieux monde est derrière toi!
Since the 1970s Med Hondo has gained a reputation as one of the most important experimental filmmakers of Africa, and his works have influenced numerous international filmmakers. Hondo was born in Mauritania in 1936, moved to Morocco as a teenager...
KINSHASA Collection
Despite the precarious living conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the ongoing armed conflicts in the eastern half of the country, the capital of Kinshasa has established itself as one of the leading fashion metropolises on the...
SANCTUARY
The refugee crisis is slowly fading from view. The political negotiations between the EU and countries of northern and western Africa, along with the agreement with Turkey, have shifted the focus to supposedly political solutions. Yet the...
Stolen Moments: Namibian Music History Untold
Namibian pop music between 1950 and 1980, in other words, the musical culture of the townships which the ruling Apartheid government attempted to suppress, is the focus of a collaboration between the Iwalewa House in Bayreuth and the Stolen Moments...
LusAfro
Here in Germany, Portuguese-language (Lusophone) music from African countries is even lesser known than Francophone or Anglophone African music. Apart from the world-famous Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora, there is a multifaceted scene of Lusophone...
LowHighTech. E-waste for 3DprintAfrica!
The internationally acclaimed Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor has called for a new vocabulary for discussing design in Africa. In his opinion, concepts like recycling, restoration and informality require new interpretation so that we can productively...
