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The Hanging Gardens of Oberlandstrasse
An interdisciplinary festival on home life, urban ecology and sustainable forms of coexistence In the lowlands of Babylon, King Nebuchadnezzar II’s wife yearned for the verdant forests and mountains of her homeland. Legend has it that the king...
The Great Repair
The art of living on a damaged planet Fifty years since the study “The Limits of Growth” was first published, the environmental crisis of today is no longer the exclusive domain of environmental activists. It directly affects each and every one of...
SINNE – Awaken your Senses
BIOTOPIA Festival Our five senses are our door to the world – yet what is happening beyond the limits of human perception? The BIOTOPIA natural history museum in Munich is organising a transdisciplinary festival entitled “SINNE” (SENSES) which aims...
Inbetween power II
How can feelings of fear and danger be expressed in times of political and social transformation? And how do we go about addressing personal fears which arise from a specific and sometimes very different looking situations depending on their...
CAESAR
by William Shakespeare Based on the translation by August Wilhelm Schlegel Adapted by Elisabeth Plessen A newly interpreted, abridged version of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”, set to debut at the Lausitz Festival, aims to probe political and culture...
Performing Exiles
Fraught political conditions in many Middle Eastern and African countries, as well as in Russia and Belarus, have forced numerous artists and intellectuals to leave home and move abroad. Many of them have arrived in Berlin, a metropolitan hub which...
In C – The Marl Score
One choreography, 160 dancers and eight performance venues – with this ambitious model project, choreographer Sasha Waltz hopes to breathe new life into the unique architecture of the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Marl. It wasn’t the artist,...
Female Peace Palace
At the first “International Women’s Peace Congress” in 1915 – in the middle of World War I – some 1,200 women, including female artists, doctors and activists from 12 nations convened at the Peace Palace at The Hague to formulate their demands to the...
Great open eyes
Based on Henrik Ibsen’s drama “Little Eyolf” (1894) and augmented by contemporary accounts of those who suffered a similar fate, the chamber opera “Great Open Eyes” by the opera start-up Civic Opera Creations addresses the subjects of mourning and...
Seven Last Words – No Saviour on the Cross
The PODIUM Esslingen has chosen Joseph Haydn’s orchestral work composed in 1787, “The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross” as the basis for a new, participatively developed musical production. In response to our current existential crises,...