Theater: Julien Gosselin makes his debut in Germany with “Sturm und Drang”.
The French director Julien Gosselin is working in Germany for the first time and immediately hits the nail on the head by wanting to roll up German literary history in several productions – and this in the bulky Volksbühne, where René Pollesch was still the artistic director at the end of the first season didn’t get a proper foothold. After several weeks of corona delays, “Sturm und Drang” will start on Friday.
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Martin Wuttke, here as Faust in Frank Castorf’s eight-hour production, now returns as Goethe.
The source of inspiration is Thomas Mann’s novel “Lotte in Weimar”: Charlotte Sophie Henriette Buff, the historical role model for the adored Lotte from Goethe’s “Werther”, wants in her later years to get in touch with the man to whom she owes her involuntary fame , and rents a room at the Elefanten in Weimar. Martin Wuttke plays the aging Goethe and will certainly evoke one or two echoes of his title role in Frank Castorf’s 2017 Eight Hours of Faust. Wuttke told the radio that Goethe was distant and rather uncomfortable for him, and he spoke of typical German intellectual arrogance. We hope that this will give him the opportunity to slip and hit properly on stage. Ulrich Seidler
Storm and stress. History of German Literature IJune 3rd, 4th, each time at 7.30 p.m. in the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, tickets on Tel.: 24 065 777 or: volksbuehne.berlin
Art: The Birds of Tegel
The Otto Lilienthal Airport in Berlin-Tegel is history. And also a legend, as before, the historic Tempelhof Airport. Just a few days before the last passenger plane landed on TXL in November 2020 and the area was closed to air traffic, photo artist Daniel Poller was able to photograph the crows, pigeons, starlings and cranes that would soon take over the runways forever. The birds circle the tower, rest on airplane wings or fly in flocks over the taxiway. They occupy the building, flaunt their flying skills as the new masters of the place, in the spring they build nests and breed.
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“Birds of Tegel”, photograph by Daniel Poller.
The result is the “Birds of Tegel” series, which can now be seen at Galerie Poll in Mitte and printed in the book by art historian Andreas Prinzing, together with a numbered photo print. All the motifs in the series by Daniel Poller, who was born in Rodewisch in Vogtland in 1984, are reminiscent of the pioneering days of aviation: it was bird wings with their feathers that inspired Lilienthal for his early experiments with gliders. The photographer reinterprets the technical TXL architecture in the urban space through the colonization by the animal world. Readability, description of function and history are his central themes. Ingeborg Ruthe
Poll Gallery, Gipsstr. 3/Hof, until June 11, Tue.–Sat. 12pm-6pm
Art space Kraut: A large void
In the Nikolaikirche, which belongs to the Stadtmuseum, to the left after the entrance is the baroque chapel of the Kraut donor family. There was once a large mural here, the “Resurrection” of the crucified Christ by an unknown painter from 1724. The work has been missing since the end of the war in 1945. Since the summer of 2021, six painters living in Berlin have been taking turns fitting their stylistically completely different and not necessarily religious variant on the resurrection theme into the huge sandstone frame. City museum curator Albrecht Henkys won them all for the long-term project. Christa Jeitner, born in 1935, an artist who works in an abstract and minimalist way, took over the seventh variation.
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Instead of a new mural for the lost, just a curtain: Christa Jeitner’s art theme is loss.
Putin’s war of aggression in his brother country, Ukraine, and all the crimes and atrocities that have become known over the past 100 days, prompted Jeitner to leave the framed wall in the chapel bare and to forego any visual narrative. All she has done is put up a coarse linen curtain with a photo of the lost historical painting on it, and beneath it lies a burned figure in a heap of rubble, very similar to the victims of the Russian army’s massacre in Bucha, Ukraine. The image of hope remains destroyed. A pain signal. “I see no reason to repeat the lost Resurrection painting in any way, not even as a contemporary or abstract interpretation. My theme is loss,” says the artist. Ingeborg Ruthe
Herb Chapel Nikolaikirche, Nikolaiviertel, Tue.–Sun. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., free entry. The project will continue in July.
Open-air concert: “Babylon Europa”
On Saturday, the European culture festival “Babylon Europa” invites you to a musical journey through numerous countries. From 2 p.m. in the Britzer Garden you can hear electronic jazz from Bulgaria, swing from Slovenia, Balkan jazz from Budapest and folk music from Finland. In addition, there will be a dance performance from Austria. The Vasko Atanosovski Trio (Slovenia), … e la luna? (Italy), Hét Hat Club (Hungary) and Co. individually, before the highlight of the festival is planned at 6 p.m. with a joint session of all artists. A total of twelve acts want to bring the “diversity of the European cultural community” to the stage. The individual events are spread over the entire area of the Britzer Garten, the joint final show takes place on the open-air stage. The ticket is included in the regular entrance fee of three euros for the Britzer Garden. Friedrich Conradi
Kino: Charlie Chaplins „The Kid“ mit Orchester
No heart has anyone who is not touched, as this little sweetheart in corduroy and holey wool begs silently. He doesn’t want to go to the orphanage, he wants to stay with the tramp who has been a father to him since he found him as a baby next to a garbage can five years ago. The boy screams and hits, is caught and pushed roughly into a truck bed. The foster father is also raging, stumbling over the roofs of the city, always keeping an eye on the moving car that is transporting his protégé.
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Charlie Chaplin with Jackie Coogan, who became a child star through The Kid.
He won’t give up until the big tramp and the little tramp chase the officers away with their fists raised. Charlie Chaplin’s first feature film, inspired by his impoverished youth with a mentally ill mother, was revolutionary for its time as a blend of social drama and comedy. Even today, 101 years later, the film is still a highly emotional viewing experience, without ever having to think about it “for the time”. The film will be shown in the Babylon cinema on Sunday with a 30-strong orchestra; as with all his films, Chaplin composed the music himself. Claudia Reinhard
“The Kid” with orchestra + “The Immigrant” (short film)Babylon cinema, June 5, 6 p.m
Cinema: There is a kind of Summer Berlinale again
From June 15th to 29th, the Berlinale will present festival highlights in five open-air cinemas in Berlin. Film team guests even come to some screenings. Ticket sales will start on June 3 via the respective cinemas: Freiluftkino Hasenheide (www.freiluftkino-hasenheide.de), Freiluftkino Friedrichshain (www.freiluftkino-friedrichshain.de), Freiluftkino Rehberge (www.freiluftkino-rehberge.de), Arte- Summer cinema Schloss Charlottenburg (www.sommerkino.berlin/schloss-charlottenburg) and Freiluftkino Friedrichshagen (www.kino-union.de).
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The Friedrichshain open-air cinema also shows Berlinale films in June.
The start will be on June 15th in the Friedrichshain open-air cinema with the winner of the Golden Bear, “Alcarràs” by Carla Simón. The internationally acclaimed family drama turned out to be a hit with audiences when it was released in Spanish cinemas in early May. Suzanne Lenz