The City Council of Breña Alta has launched the initiative ‘The Flying Book’, a project of the Department of Culture and the NALDO Municipal Library with which “we try to collect books for education, the promotion of reading and access to a great variety of titles and literary genres among our population “, it is … Read more
MDR KULTUR: “Uschi offered vocal artistry” we read on the cover of the CD – obviously a voice of the concert criticism. What memories do you still have of that concert in Dresden in 1971? – Uschi Brüning: So directly, specifically, I can hardly remember the concert. Very good to the location. But the whole … Read more
The token The fury of reading. Joaquín Rodríguez. Tusquets. Barcelona, 2020. 352 pages. 20 euros – This book is not what it appears from its rapturous title. From the outset it would seem to us a vigorous praise of reading, a hymnical hymn to books as ethics and aesthetics for life. If we compare the … Read more
Peter Schubert was best known for his ceiling paintings. The artist, who was born in Dresden in 1929, died on Sunday in his Berlin studio, the Peter Schubert Society announced on Wednesday, citing the family. Schubert was 92 years old. – The artist became known, among other things, for his ceiling paintings in the Great … Read more
Painter, copywriter, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and performance artist, in short: Peter Piek is a creative all-rounder. Born in Chemnitz, the artist’s career began professionally in 2002 when he began studying painting and graphics at the University of Graphic Arts and Book Art in Leipzig – as a student of none other than Sighard Gille. – Composing … Read more
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
The time that children dedicated to video game It has grown exorbitantly in the last year. A report by the consulting firm Newzoo indicates that their world consumption increased by 65% in 2020. To reduce the hours they spend doing this activity, one of the alternatives is foment his taste for books and the reading. … Read more
“A book must be the ax that breaks the frozen sea that is within us”, wrote Franz Kafka more than a century ago. His spirit is more alive today than ever, in a society whose literature is a clear reflection of the paradigm shifts that are going through it. “Literature is a very powerful tool … Read more
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
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