Culture Newsletter Embassy of Israel in February 2010
February 2010
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Embassy of Israel - Berlin
exhibition of Vardi Kahana, "A Family" in the Paul-Loebe-Haus
reading with Lizzie Doron in the House of Literature Berlin
Asaf Schurr, "Motti"
Yoram Kaniuk "Between Life and Death" - an autobiographical novel
Nava Semel: "Love for Beginners"
Mira Stomach: "Time will show"
premiere of the chamber opera "Baruch silence" by Ella Milch-Sheriff in Brunswick
Amit Erez with a new album on tour in Germany
"Shu Shu" - the choreographer Efrat stampers in the Dock 11 Berlin
exhibition Vardi Kahana of "One Family" in the Paul-Loebe-Haus
By 12 February 2010, the exhibition "One Family" by Vardi Kahana still in the Paul-Loebe-Haus in Berlin to see.
The starting point of the series "A Family" is a photo that shows the mother Rivka and her two sisters Leah and Esther. The three women have the Survived the Holocaust and their descendants now live mainly in the fourth generation in Israel.
Kahana has photographed her family for over 10 years. But she has not only taken trips to itself, but it has also crossed ideological and psychological limits in order to realize this work.
Vardi Kahana says of the exhibition: "This is the story of a family. My family. The whole Jewish-Israeli history is embodied by this family. The photos in this exhibition provide a kaleidoscope of answers to questions of Jewish-Israeli identity.
for my parents and their siblings, the family was sacred, beyond ideological and religious differences or beliefs. The family unit was very tight due to the necessity of survival. There was a cohesion, which was derived from the oath, which had given the members of this generation to meet again after the war and rebuild their houses, close together. They arrived penniless in Israel, and everyone was there for the other. Those who helped the first immigrant to those who failed. At every opportunity, we told my mother and her sisters stories of how they saved in Auschwitz today. The relationship between life and death continued after the immigration to Israel.
The more I progressed with my documentation, the more I aware that my family is the essence of Jewish-Israeli experience represents. To document the lives of my relatives, I made many trips back and forth across the country and abroad. I crossed ideological and mental boundaries: the left-Zionist Kibbutz Hashomer Hatzai'r in the north to the Jewish settlements in the West Bank, from the settlement Susya in the southern Golan Heights to Savyon, a wealthy suburb of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv until Bnei Berak and Copenhagen, Petah Tikva and Caesarea. My trip commute of "links" to the "right" of ultra-Orthodox to secular households.
there is a spiritual and emotional bond between the children who play on the empty market streets of Hebron and the young people roller skating on the streets of Herzliya, beyond the fact that her grandfather and her grandmother are siblings? Is there a commonality between the children in the Sukkah - Tabernacles - sitting in Bnei Berak and the children who jump into a courtyard of Copenhagen trampoline? (...) Can we draw a parallel between my Uncle Moshe, deeply rooted in the fields of the kibbutz, which he has built, and Yizhar, the son of my cousin who looks with his wife Ella, the green areas of Ma'aleh Michmash? If this is a bond, based on differences and family graves, or simply a complementary along a historical and cultural continuity? Is it ever right to try to establish a relationship, or if you do not find more of a balance that need for the generation of our parents, the Family Federation to hold together at all costs, is one of survival have been so essential. "
The artist Vardi Kahana was Born in Tel Aviv. During her studies she began to photograph her mother. First, it has established itself as a portrait photographer. Over the years, she developed a conceptual documentary practice of photographing.
(Photo © Vardi Kahana)
exhibition of Vardi Kahana, "A Family" to 12 February 2010
Paul-Lobe-Haus
Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 1 10557 Berlin
Tel: 030 / 227-35425
opening times: Monday 9:00
Clock Clock
-16:00 Tue-Thu 9:00 -17:00 Clock Clock Clock
Fri 9:00 - 14.00 clock
reading with Lizzie Doron in the House of Literature Berlin
On Tuesday, the 9th February 2010, reads Lizzie Doron, at 20.00 clock in the House of Literature Berlin from her book "Once upon a family."
Tel Aviv, in the early nineties: Helen, Elizabeth's mother has died. During the Shiva, the seven days of mourning, is Elizabeth again in the small Neighborhood where she grew up. A neighborhood where survivors of the Holocaust tried to start a new life.
all children with whom they grew up, have, like Elizabeth, left many years ago this area. They wanted to leave the fears and nightmares of their parents behind, live a normal life.
by the mourners and their memories is to Elizabeth again the lost world of childhood today, with mothers and fathers who were in the Israeli presence never felt at home.
Lizzie Doron, born 1953, lives in Tel Aviv. 2003 her novel "Quiet Times" by Yad Vashem awarded to the Buchman Prize was awarded. 2007 she received the Jeanette Schocken Prize - Bremerhaven's Citizenship Award for Literature.
(Photo: Lizzie Doron © Suhrkamp Verlag)
Lizzie Doron: "Once upon a family."
Chair: Sigrid Brinkmann, the German text reads Daphna Rosenthal.
Tuesday 9 February 2010, 20.00 clock
Berlin Literature House
Fasanenstr. 23 10719 Berlin
Tel: 030 / 887 2860
E-mail: literaturhaus@berlin.de
Organized by the Jewish People's University Berlin in cooperation with the Berlin Literature House.
Asaf Schurr, "Motti"
early February published the novel "Motti" by Asaf Schurr in Germany.
After Menachem Motti has moved to the houses, over on the way back down, this one woman. But Motti came to excuse his friend and gives himself out as a driver. Menachem does not object, he can exercise the police and later Judge: Motti is for five years in prison. In return he asks only that Menachem cares about Laika, his beloved dog over everything.
What initially appears as an ultimate proof of friendship turns out to be violent power structure. Since their first encounter during military service Menachem Motti and connected to a fatal manner.
"Motti" is also a novel of Israel today, the presence of deeply shapes the lives of his protagonists. Only on their own, personal way they can deal with it.
Asaf Schurr is the discovery of the young Israeli literature and "Motti" his first novel in German. Asaf Schurr does not portray the great policy, but tells of an unequal friendship.
Asaf Schurr, "Motti".
from Hebrew by Ulrike Harnisch.
224 pages, hardcover, Release Date: 6 February 2010 (Berlin Verlag).
Yoram Kaniuk "Between Life and Death" - an autobiographical novel
in October 2009 was published the autobiographical novel "Between Life and Death" by Yoram Kaniuk in Germany.
"After these things - after the illness and after death, and after the pain and after the laughter and after infidelity and by the age and grace and love - after all that I woke up into a half-sleep in which I was four months should remain. And it was bad and it was good and it was sad and it was hopeless and it was a miracle. "
At 74 years, Yoram Kaniuk born a second time, when, after a coma awakens in the hospital. For months he had lived in hallucinations, the stages of his long life passed before him, he believed, to talk to his dead parents and long lost friends, through Tel Aviv and New York to walk, write and paint. With humor and self-deprecating reported Yoram Kaniuk, as fixtures in the waking dream-like flashbacks in the scarcely less absurd reality of the clinic everyday.
The novel is a courageous confrontation with old age and death, which can be felt despite all the anger about the inevitable deterioration of the body, the fullness of life. He is also the author of a major retrospective of his rich life.
Yoram Kaniuk was 1930 born in Tel Aviv. He fought in the Revolutionary War ended in 1948, as a painter for ten years after New York and returned as a writer. He is considered one of the main authors of Israel. His books have been translated into twenty languages and won many award.
Yoram Kaniuk: "Between Life and Death" - an autobiographical novel.
from Hebrew by Ruth Achlama.
224 pages, published in October 2009 (Claassen).
Nava Semel: "Love for Beginners"
On 7 February 2010 published a new book for young people Nava Semel in Germany. It contributes titled "Love for Beginners".
play the seven love stories in this book Israel at very different times, but the conflicting, confusing emotions that brings the discovery of love with it, are equal at all times and in all places.
this is through the boy out of the theater course that is determined to take over the role of the donkey in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's dream to finally kiss his beloved Lyra, which has the role of the queen, must. There is the young Israeli girl who falls in love with Mikey, an American and Elvis fan, before she hides her love, however, and they make fun doing what Mikey does not prevent hindrance to confess his love. A third story tells of a boy who is entrusted to the uncertainty of his first falling in love (another boy) the black sheep of the family, his grandmother, who gives him understanding and real help.
Nava Semel, born 1954, studied at Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv art history. Already at seventeen, she began working in various journalistic jobs, such as a production assistant at the Israeli radio and television. She worked for the Museum of Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv, and wrote among other articles for various art magazines and women's magazines in Israel. In addition to short stories, poems and plays Nava Semel has a novel for adults and several children's books published. In the Federal Republic of Germany, it was mainly through her novel "Gerschona known to be awarded in the U.S. with the National Jewish Book Award.
Nava Semel: "Love for Beginners"
128 pages, hardcover, Release Date: 7 February 2010 (Jacoby & Stuart).
from Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler, illustrated by Gerda Raidt.
Mira stomach: "Time will show it"
In January 2010, the novel by Mira stomach "The Time will tell "in German.
In this novel there is an accident and its consequences to innocent are guilty, to despair and self-confidence and the purifying power of togetherness and love.
"Anna was born in a long and very dark night. Since then, thirteen and a half years have passed and what was destroyed that night, prepared himself to be good again on that Monday, which began so beautifully. The legs obeyed the brain until noon, they had stumbled not once, she could hear what life said. Come on, Anna, this is your day "
Anna stood on the wooden platform and waited. Forgotten were the motor disturbances, forget all caution. Anna saw her dream: a bicycle leaning against the railing, the sun high and bright, the sea glistening in the light. - A brief moment of ecstatic happiness - the first bike ride of their life, the little brother sitting cheering on the rear carrier. But Anna falls, and the little brother beats on his head and falls into a coma.
Only the Gulls are witnesses to this accident, and Anna is silent. But from then on everything changed for them, the taste of bread, the height of the sky, the color of the sea. The accident destroyed the future, tears the fabric of the family, and create it anew.
Mira stomach in the early fifties in Kfar Saba (Israel) born, was the Orthodox, Eastern Jewish dominated world of her childhood to adhere to. She studied psychology and sociology and has also worked as a teacher, secretary and nurse, until she finally decided to be a writer. Stomach is next Zeruya Shalev of the most important writers of their country. Her work, which includes novels and short stories, was given numerous awards, most recently in 2005 with the price of the Prime Minister. Mira stomach lives in Jerusalem and holds poetry lectures much attention, including at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Mira stomach: "Time will tell"
from Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler.
400 pages, published in January 2010 (dtv premium).
premiere of the chamber opera "Baruch silence" by Ella Milch-Sheriff in Brunswick
On 25 February 2010 celebrating the chamber opera "Baruch silence" by Ella Milch-Sheriff premiere in Braunschweig. This is a work commissioned by the Staatstheater Braunschweig. The libretto was written by Yael Ronen.
The chamber opera is based on the diary of the father of Israeli composer Ella Milch-Sheriff from 1943: The request of her father in the will follow, turns a daughter back to her parents' house. She learns from the cruel fate of her father, a Jewish doctor during the Nazi dictatorship, who had rarely spoken about his past. She hears the first time that she had a brother. Now the existence of their deceased family members realize that although they have always attended as a ghost whose stories but they did not know before.
The Israeli composer Ella Milch-Sheriff, was born in 1954 in Haifa. Her works have been performed in Israel, Europe and the USA. She lives with her husband, the composer and conductor Noam Sheriff, in Tel Aviv. 2005 Ella Milch-Sheriff has received the prestigious "Israeli Prime Minister Prize" and the "Rose Flower Prize" for their opera "And The Council Laughed. "
The writer and director Yael Ronen, who was born in 1976 in Jerusalem, wrote the libretto for the chamber opera "Baruch's silence." It is a well-known theater director in Israel. To their property developments include "Guide to the Good Life" (2003, Habima National Theatre of Israel, Tel Aviv) and "Plonter" (2005, Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv).
The musical direction is in the hands of Burkhard abdomen.
Director: Udo Ricklin, stage / costumes: Neta Haker
By: Jan Zink (father), Jacqueline Treichler (mother), Sarah Ferede (daughter), Lucas Vanzelli (brother / spirit), Susanna Putter (grandmother / spirit), Moran Abouloff (First woman / ghost), Hakan Selçuk Tiraþoðlu (Bauer / Russian officer / spirit)
chamber opera "Baruch silence" by Ella Milch-Sheriff
premiere on Thursday, 25 February 2010, 19.30 clock
Further performances on 3 March 2010, 19.30 clock on 5 March 2010, 11:00 clock, and on 18 March 2010, 19.30 clock.
Staatstheater Braunschweig
Maisonette
Magnitorwall
18 38100 Braunschweig
Tel: 0531 / 123 4567
http://www.staatstheater-braunschweig.de/
Amit Erez with new album Tour in Germany
On 19 February, the album "Last Night When I Tried To Sleep I Felt The Ocean With My Fingertips" by Amit Erez on the German market. Late February and early March, he will also be on tour in Germany.
Amit Erez is in Israel now become one of the most respected musicians. His first album "Wish I Could Make It A Story", he took her home and published it himself and
short time later, Amit Erez spent a year in the Netherlands Rotterdam to study there. After his return he was in Israel guitarist of the band "Eatliz. Amit's first national publication was a very successful acoustic LP called "Black Light".
2007, Amit Erez wrote his first record deal at Anova Music, where in November 2007 his second album. The album was the result of the fruitful cooperation with a rock band and brought the two hit singles "Clever And Strong" and "Post Card" show. The video for "Postcard" was awarded the "Vox Populi-Prize at the Independent Music Awards. 2008 Amit Erez then played as the opening act of the "Chemical Brothers" and the "Wave Love Festival Livorno in Italy and at the Popkomm in Berlin.
In April 2009, "Conquered By Summer Rain" published. The album is a compilation of his first two albums. Amit's new album "Last Night When I Tried To Sleep I Felt The Ocean With My Fingertips" was released on early June 2009 in Israel and from 19 February also be available in Germany.
tour dates Amit Erez "Songs and Whispers" 2010: 19th
February 2010 Schwanewede, Forest Forge, 20.00 clock
20th February 2010 Hamburg, Superbude Hostel, 20.00 clock
21st February 2010 Schortens, Fair Cafe, 15.00 clock
21st February 2010 Delmenhorst, Kerem Culture Café, 20.00 clock
22nd February 2010. Bremen, Falstaff, 20.00 clock
23rd February 2010 Bremen, Harbour Casino, 20.00 clock
24th February 2010 Dortmund, St. Paul's Church, 20.00 clock
25th February 2010 Osnabrück, Blue Strawberry, 20.00 clock
26th February 2010 Bremen, Hot Shot Records, 15.00 clock
26th February 2010 Bremen Town Side Hostel, 20.00 clock
27th February 2010 Oldenburg, Polyester, 20.00 clock
28th February 2010 Achim, catacombs, 20.00 clock
01 March 2010 Göttingen, Blooming Bar, 21.00 clock
02 March 2010 Hamburg, Astra-Stube, 21.00 clock
03 March 2010 Hamburg, Friendly + Competent, 20.30 clock
04th March 2010 Hannover, Palace of Culture, Linden, 20.00 clock
05th March 2010 Bremerhaven, Passage Kino, 20.00 clock
06th March 2010 Lüneburg, Wonderful, 21.00 clock
07th March 2010 Bremen, Moments Club, 20.00 clock
More information:
http://www.amiterez.com/
http://www.myspace.com/amiterez
"Shu Shu" - the choreographer Efrat stampers in the Dock 11 Berlin
From 18 to 21 February 2010, included the song "Shu Shu" by the Israeli choreographer Efrat Stempler at Dock 11 in Berlin again.
"Shu Shu" shows people under pressure. Three people in a confined space - an interrogation room. Relationships of people under the pressure of the charges investigated. Trust is questioned, suspected to be central, the only possible motivation. The interrogation room as a paraphrase of a political conflict area.
A story on multiple levels, which equal the performers used, pre-recorded material and live video feeds. Specially composed for the evening / music compiled is another narrative level.
The work is based on the concept of visible and invisible material. Viewers see everything, both the live performance as well as the setter and the live footage of hidden cameras. The Performer get only a certain part of it. The tension arises from the ratio of the "omnipotent" audience, who apparently has all the information and the "disabled" view of the performer.
The work of Efrat Stempler based, in addition to extremely strong physical elements, the convergence of video surveillance technology and performers. The dancers carry mobile cameras. By live-sectional images are mixed with pre-produced material and sampled with the live performance.
"Shu Shu" celebrated in September 2006 in the Dock 11 premiere. The performance was then shown in Tacheles Berlin and at festivals in Armenia, Romania and Singapore as well as 2007 the "Stromereien Performance Festival" in Zurich. In December 2009, "Shu Shu" was in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to see.
Stempler Efrat was born in 1977 in Israel. She has worked with the Bat Sheva Dance Company, and Barak Marshall MsSchrittmacher. For several years living and working in Berlin Efrat stampers.
"Shu Shu" of 18 to 21 February 2010, 20.30 clock
Choreography: Efrat Stempler, Dance: Brit Rodemund, Anat Vaadia, Alexander Sieber, Video: Jens Crull
Dock11
chestnut Allee 79 10435 Berlin
Tel: 030 / 4481222
E-mail: ticket @ dock11-berlin.de
www.dock11-berlin.de
http://www.efrat-stempler.com/
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