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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...
The world’s alphabet
Located on the countryside, the Literaturbüro Ostwestfalen-Lippe is holding a writers' convention which large cities would even have trouble topping. Renowned and complex writers from around the world will meet here to perform for large audiences. A...
53rd AGI congress Berlin
Graphic design was long considered to be solely a domain of the advertising industry. To this day, practical issues continue to dominate publications and congresses. This international graphic design congress in Berlin hopes to better emphasise the...
5th Berlin Poetry Festival 2005
Through innovative approaches and multimedia, the berlin poetry festival has popularised a literary genre which still has a reputation of being of interest to only a small group of poetry enthusiasts. However, young people are fascinated with the...
WESTEND 05 - Know Your Rights
The Leipzig WESTEND festival is a unique event which probes the boundaries between the fine arts and theatre. The performances, installations, lectures and salons address the issue of public space which the festival regards as the basic structure of...
