Dresden project Fabmobil awarded with Kulturlichter-Preis

Dresden project Fabmobil awarded with Kulturlichter-Preis

About the Fabmobil project If people cannot get to the offers – because buses no longer run – the offers have to go to the people. This has been done by Fabmobil, the mobile art and digital workshop for rural areas, since 2017, from Constitute eV Fabmobil comes directly to schools or socio-cultural youth centers … Read more

Dresdner Ensemble makes music by Jewish composers audible again

Dresdner Ensemble makes music by Jewish composers audible again

The conductor has not only taught at the “Carl Maria von Weber” Academy of Music in Dresden for almost 20 years, he also curated the Richard Wagner Museum in Graupa near Pirna, which opened in 2013. Of course he knows Wagner’s anti-Semitic pamphlets, says Hurshell, they are terrible for Jews. Still, he loved Wagner’s music. … Read more

Online museum: digital offers for children

Online museum: digital offers for children

It’s a paradox: Actually, children should get away from the screen – fewer smartphones and tablets, more board games, books and nature. But in the pandemic, this is often the only way to provide offers anyway. Many museums in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, for example, continue to rely on knowledge transfer, but now digitally. They … Read more

Semperoper: Thielemann and Theiler argue about corona measures

Semperoper: Thielemann and Theiler argue about corona measures

A dispute about how to deal with the corona protective measures has broken out at the Dresden Semperoper. Chief conductor Christian Thielemann had accused director Peter Theiler in an interview of obstructing his work. Theiler reacted clearly and spoke of “complete misrepresentation and lack of insight”. – Thielemann criticizes Theiler’s Corona protective measures With the … Read more

Gera: Program cinema operator wants to continue operating UCI

Gera: Program cinema operator wants to continue operating UCI

Talks between UCI and the landlord of the cinema building are still ongoing. Because it is still unclear whether the spontaneous termination due to construction defects is legally in order or not. Program cinema operator Christian Pfeil is waiting for clarity to finally prevail. Because he wants the German children’s media festival “Goldener Spatz” to … Read more

Cinema worlds on Leipzig’s house walls: Electric Cinema

Cinema worlds on Leipzig’s house walls: Electric Cinema

In a large parking lot in the middle of the Schleußig district of Leipzig, a black caddy with a white and bronze-colored logo on the doors: Electric Cinema is written on it, in a font reminiscent of 1950s film posters. And Martin Schröder-Zabel, who is driving the tour that evening, pulls a flag out of … Read more

Filmfest Dresden – how are you planning despite Corona?

Filmfest Dresden – how are you planning despite Corona?

Preparations for the 33rd Dresden Film Festival are in full swing – even if the impression in the almost lonely office is different, as almost everyone works from home. After all, the 2,700 or so films that have been submitted for the competitions in April by filmmakers from over 100 countries have to be viewed. … Read more

Why the refugee experiences are similar today and after the Second World War

Why the refugee experiences are similar today and after the Second World War

Not only does the Bible tell of the exodus and exile. Stories of flight and displacement exist in many languages, cultures and religions. People all over the world have had the experience of losing their home. – The 20th century with the two world wars marks a sad climax in this narrative of violence and … Read more

DEFA story: “Saxony’s glory and Prussia’s glory” – How a film legend came about

DEFA story: “Saxony’s glory and Prussia’s glory” – How a film legend came about

Truth and poetry The television princes of the GDR are not immediately convinced of the material, as the experienced television dramaturge Börner recalls. After all, instead of residences, there have long been GDR districts, the nobility has been abolished, and in the early 1980s the Dresden residential palace still looks like a ruin, as if … Read more

Recommended album: “Hark!” – unusual Christmas album by Andrew Bird

Recommended album: “Hark!”  – unusual Christmas album by Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird, like so many of us, was surprised by the pandemic in the spring. He was working on songs, preparing for concerts, but things turned out differently: “I just got back from recording from Chicago when the effects of the pandemic hit me. I live in the country near LA, in the mountains . … Read more