Long night of astronomy
One of the big disadvantages of living in the big city is that you hardly see any stars. That can change on Sunday night, provided the weather cooperates. Should the sky remain cloudless, people aged ten and over can experience the Long Night of Astronomy on Tempelhofer Feld. Together with astronomers, the sun, moon, Saturn and Jupiter will be observed, with a bit of luck there will also be shooting stars, which can currently be observed relatively frequently. There will also be a mobile planetarium and an astro consultation hour, children can make different types of rockets, star charts and sundials under supervision. The event follows the tradition of street astronomy, which became popular in Berlin after World War II. At that time there were astronomers with self-made or salvaged telescopes in many public places in Berlin. Claudia Reinhard
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August is shooting star month
The long night of astronomy August 13, 5 p.m. to 1 a.m., Tempelhofer Feld, access via gate 9/near S+U train station Tempelhof, all information is available here
Bling-Bling: Kunst-Performance im Ring-Center 1
“Everywhere, from popular culture to propaganda, there is constant pressure to make people feel that the only role they can play is to consume” – as the US linguist Noam Chomsky is said to have said to have. But what if you reversed this equation? What if you convert the modern temple of consumption into a post-modern cultural site? And thereby gives it a completely new meaning? You can experience just such an attempt this weekend at the Bling Ring Center performance art series. The literary and poetic potential of the shopping center is to be exploited and artistically used. For this purpose, the author and artist Olga Hohmann, together with the sculptor Antonia Nannt, is developing an idiosyncratic world of sculpture and theatrical reading, from which the location of the shopping mall takes on new facets.
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„The Bling Ring Center“
Nannt’s metal sculptures have a fragmentary character similar to Hohmann’s text miniatures. According to the press release, the sound of their work should lose itself in a continuous loop of shopping center background music. Individual lines of the reading are accordingly immortalized in the objects themselves. On a total of three evenings, Hohmann will perform the specially written texts. The shopping center thus becomes a place where not only shopping is done and where the human spirit is also normalized, but – on the contrary – a place where one can linger, linger or simply enjoy art. A nice change of perspective! Hanno Hauenstein
Position 04: The Bling Ring Center, im Ring-Center 1, Frankfurter Allee 111.
Opening: August 13, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., performance: 7 p.m. Further performances: August 25th and September 23rd
Art about the long human history of violence
The statements by seven artists from this city on the long and never-ending history of violence in our world are powerful, analytical and emotional. Curator Bernhard Draz has brought together the works in the Meinblau project space in Berlin: paintings, photographs, sculptures, graphics, videos and sound installations by Chan Sook, Constantino Ciervo, Andreas Rost, Joachim Seinfeld, Oliver van den Berg, Sven Kalden and Sharon Paz.
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Costantino Ciervo, “Sew in the Sea”, 2019, video sculpture with old sewing machine (detail)
The concept of the exhibition deliberately starts with history, recalling violent crimes that were often suppressed from the 19th century, referring to colonialism, falsification of history, war crimes, the Shoah and the Holocaust, violence against women, such as the offenses committed by the Japanese military against the “comfort women ‘ in the Second World War, as well as to the Islamist act of terrorism on September 11 in New York and its consequences. The works of art address the weapon cult and war flight and the crass pictorial narratives seep into our present, intertwine in our minds with the media images of destruction, flight and expulsion from Syria, Afghanistan – and, threateningly current – of Putin’s war against the brother country Ukraine. Ingeborg Ruthe
Project room MeinblauChristinenstraße 18–19 , Pfefferberg, until August 28, Thurs–Sun 2–7 p.m., free admission
Flea market: The comedy on Kurfürstendamm cleans up
At the end of the year, the comedy will leave the Schiller Theater on Kurfürstendamm. To mark the occasion, director Martin Woelffer and his team are clearing out their warehouse and holding a flea market in front of the main entrance. The theater staff have gone through all the props, furniture and costumes and decided what can go. Some plays, such as “Pension Schöller”, will no longer be performed in the future. You can now buy numerous items of clothing, furniture, decorative objects and the like, some of which have already been used by real acting icons. The items include a jacket that has already been worn by Winfried Glatzeder, sweatpants by Oliver Mommsen and a dress that Nora von Collande wore on stage.
In addition to flea market treasures, you can also get one or two autographs: Marion Kracht, Judith Richter, Gayle Tufts and Katja Weitzenböck have announced they will be there at different times. Food and drink will be provided and comedy fans can go to the show “Murder on the Orient Express?” (6 p.m.) after the end of the flea market. Franka Klaproth
Kurfürstendamm Schiller Theatermain entrance in front of the comedy, Bismarckstraße 110, Sunday, August 14, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m
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Flea market: Martin Woelffer and his team are moving out of the Schiller Theater.
Classic Open Air on Walter-Benjamin-Platz
An open air that goes well with the district in which it takes place can be seen on Friday evening on Walter-Benjamin-Platz. Four famous pianists will be playing between the two neoclassical blocks of houses, where otherwise the upper classes of Charlottenburg stroll every day and children splash under the fountain, starting at 7:30 p.m. Five years ago, in 2017, the concert by Joja Wendt, Axel Zwingenberger, Martin Tingvall and Sebastian Knauer was a great success. Now it is being reissued as part of the cultural summer festival: “The acclaimed concert from 2017 will be repeated with a new programme!” The four musicians usually appear at sold-out concerts, but on Friday evenings they can be seen for free and play classical, jazz, boogie-woogie and pop. No registration is required for the concert. Friedrich Conradi
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The umbrellas hanging over Walter-Benjamin-Platz will hardly be needed on Friday. It stays dry at the open air.
Classic Open Air: Four pianists – One concert: Friday, 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Walter-Benjamin-Platz in Charlottenburg. admission free
In and around the terms and conditions: laugh, read, read aloud
Sunday to the library? Why not! Anyway, it’s the day when there are no excuses when it comes to reading. You have to find some time there. The America Memorial Library has chosen Sunday as its community day and allows things to happen both close to and further away from literature. On this Sunday, for example, if you have lost your laughter, you can start again here with laughter yoga from 11 a.m. on the meadow in front of the house, directly at Hallesches Tor. But if that just seems silly and you want to get a deeper insight into literature and the experience of reading, you can get to know Shared Reading an hour later in the same place.
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The general terms and conditions recommend: bring something to drink with you! An apple will do too.
The organizers call this a “literature-based intervention,” which sounds like therapy and, in the end, may seem like it for some. It’s about approaching texts together and talking about what they do to you, what feelings they trigger, what thoughts they trigger. Normally you read alone and sometimes feel the need to exchange ideas about what you have read. But how rarely does the girlfriend, the husband, the children know the same book just as well and are ready for such a conversation. Here is the joint program, the Berlin shared reading office is bringing the idea to neighborhoods, businesses, hospitals and schools. On Sunday afternoon you can try it out and see if the words flow. And then, in the QueerRead series, author Andrey Ditzel will present his novel Centaur vs Satyr. Cornelia Geissler
AGB, Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Blücherplatz 1
Artistic border crossings on the 61st anniversary of Ulbricht’s construction of the Wall
Sacrow near Potsdam is a place that is inscribed in the history of the construction of the Wall. Here, right through the countryside, ran until 9./10. November 1989 the demarcation line. And many people in both East and West believed, resigned to fate, that it would stay that way forever. It turned out differently. That is why nine visual artists from the region will be meeting on August 13th, this summer, the memorable 61st “anniversary” of the construction of Ulbricht’s “Bulwark Against Imperialism”. They dare, quite metaphorically, to “cross borders” in the park once laid out by Lenné and at Sacrow Palace, but without their works directly illustrating the changing history. It’s about something universal: Crossing borders is nothing new in art. The avant-gardes of modernism have thus filled the writing of art history. In art today, however, the political complexities are increasingly intertwined with themes and forms of expression.
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Marjolein Knottenbelt, “Portrait the painting reversed”, 2021, in the show “Border Crossings”
Since, as is well known, there is never just one border, art has been asking where these markings and dividing lines actually run for as long as there has been discourse. After all, it is always about the freedom of art. The group exhibition illuminates these questions in its own way. And not with theoretical lectures, but with art. Each position of the exhibitor approaches the topic in its own way: as painting, graphics, sculpture, photography or installation. The summer show is organized by Ars Sacrow eV, founded in 2002 by committed Sacrowers. Partners are the Prussian Palaces and Gardens. Since 2003, exhibitions have been held under the motto “Museum for a summer”. The annual film series “Moments in the Castle” completes the programme. The historical processing and Time.news of the place are intertwined with contemporary themes again and again. Ingeborg Ruthe
Potsdam-Sacrow, Castle and Park, Krampnitzer Straße 33, Vernissage “Border Crossing” Friday, August 12, 6 p.m. Until October 9, Sat+Sun 11 a.m.–6 p.m., information: www.ars-sacrow.de