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Igor Strawinsky – Erwin Schulhoff – Paul Brody
This concert series featured the works of three composers whose musical roots lie in Eastern Europe. Igor Stravinsky and Erwin Schulhoff were influenced by the Slavic musical tradition, while Schulhoff and the contemporary trumpeter and composer Paul...
Sir Harry’s Song
Sir Harrison Birtwistle is one of the most famous composers of contemporary music in England today. He has composed works for numerous international institutions and his compositions are regularly performed at major music festivals, such as Salzburg...
Sixteen Daily Experiences
At the Platz der Weltausstellung in downtown Hannover, project organizers set up an array of 16 columns equipped with loud speakers which created a sound field 16 times a day – starting at sunrise and continuing throughout the day at hourly...
Sommer in Stuttgart 08: Konzerte des Netzwerk Süd
The Netzwerk Süd is a network of musicians and musical institutions dedicated to promoting New Music in Stuttgart and its surrounding region. The programme started with a series of concerts at the music festival "Summer in Stuttgart 08". One of the...
Synthesiser Park: From analogue to virtual
Innovations in pop music today are usually the result of software modification. While the first synthesisers were built to imitate traditional musical instruments, the newest generation of these digital wonders can produce sounds of instruments which...
War of Images
The controversies surrounding the caricatures of the prophet Muhammad and the violent reactions in the Islamic world raise important questions about the rules by which cultures with different value systems can peacefully co-exist. Suddenly, it has...
Babelspeak
There has been considerable movement in the German poetry scene in recent years as a young generation has laid claim to the literary stage. The project “Babelspeak. New German Poetry”, initiated by the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin and the Literaturhaus...
August 1914
The German network of literature houses is interested in gaining a better understanding of the outbreak of the First World War one hundred years ago. Twenty-three writers from as many European cities responded to a call for literary texts by the...
1st Munich Literature Festival
The main feature of the first Munich Literature Festival was an international conference of writers from Africa, Asia and Latin America – in particular representatives of “universal writing” whose work probes the conflicting relationship between...
Extraordinary and Obscene – Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Pop Literature
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1940-1975), the German underground poet, is securely anchored in today's literary canon in school, yet is (still) widely unknown by the majority of the population. This project pays tribute to the co-founder of the Beat...