What: The 2016 indie German film “Der schwarze Nazi” (“The black Nazi”) examines the inscrutable question of what it means to be German (you know, it still ain’t that easy after WW2), and turns the concept of integration on its head. In a climate of intense racial hatred, how far will someone go to try to fit in
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What do Mendelssohn‘s Lobgesang and Poulenc‘s Figure Humanine have in common? According to choreographer Mario Schröder, it’s the promise of freedom. Composed nearly a century apart, some might say the connection is merely a religious one. Lobgesang was commissioned in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the invention of the Gutenberg Printing Press, which lead to the
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20 people from all over the world are on their way or have just arrived in Leipzig. They are coming to town since this year is the 50th anniversary of 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, which took place in October 1966 in NYC. Conceived by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver, it combined avant-garde theatre, improvisational orchestra with a hint of actionist
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