This month, the “Maximilian Festival” will be held at Hangar 11 in Tel Aviv for the third time. This is an original festival from the imagination of the musician and creator Marina Maximilian, which is gaining momentum every year, and will be held on January 26 and 28.
Listen to the full interview with Marina Maximilian here, Network B
“I decided that I want to do an evening that has things I like, something bigger than me,” the successful singer said yesterday (Friday) in an interview with Omer Ben Robi on Kan Network B. “I bring all kinds of guests from all kinds of arts, dancers, a choir, works of art and the whole evening ends with a party. So if you’ve already dressed up, you’ve cleared your evening, I’ll tailor a different kind of celebration for you.”
“There is an awful lot of satisfaction, and I saw it at the previous festival,” noted Maximilian. “When I stood on the sidelines and saw the guest artists give their piece, people looked at them with such thirst and excitement and it was so much fun to expose them to things that the audience wouldn’t necessarily have been exposed to themselves and to enrich our world of content. Culture makes our lives so colorful.”
Marina Maximilian, who recently celebrated her 35th birthday, was born in Dnepropetrovsk, then on the territory of the former Soviet Union and today – on the territory of Ukraine, where a war has been going on for almost a year. “In the land of immigrants from the Soviet Union, both Russians and Ukrainians, we are of one piece. We were Jews there and here we are at home,” Maximilian said.
“The people there are innocent,” Maximilian stated in an interview. “Whoever happens to live and grow up in one of these places, they both suffer from it equally. Suddenly people behave in a terribly evil way towards the Russians, as if they were the ones who chose and made these moves. So no. People are people and they want to live well and I pray that this situation will end As soon as possible”.
Marina said in an interview that the piano with which her family immigrated to Israel and with which she is so identified, came to her family in an unusual way. “My grandmother signed up for the piano when my mother was born,” she said in an interview. “It wasn’t until my mother was seven years old that her turn came. This piano came with us in a container to Israel. A piano is an amazing thing in the house, it’s a focus of emotions, especially when we need to unload something.”