Vision of the futures
Interview: Tomás Saraceno. Cloud Cities at Hamburger Bahnhof is Saraceno’s ongoing investigation of a possible future, or futures. The exhibition is monumental and personal at the same time.
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Interview: Chris Taylor aka CANT. Produced in collaboration with Twin Shadow’s George Lewis Jr., CANT's first album, Dreams Come True (Warp), gets deconstructed at Magnet Club on November 9.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Undying Finnish alcoholic Elvis obsessives return to SO36 on Fri, Dec 9. Leader Järvenpää explained in Oct 2009.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Berlin based Canadian expat motivates the soft-Moroder duo at Berghain Tue, Dec 6. We discoursed before Berlin Festival 2009.
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Anat Fritz. Best known for her well proportioned retro knit hats, Berlin-based designer Anat Fritz has been producing her signature line since 2005.
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Françoise Cactus of Stereo Total. Berlin’s cultishly eclectic electro-pop duo will be performing for two nights at HAU: a journey into the inferno of rock’n’roll and its most damned and beautiful stars.
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INTERVIEW: Nicola Hümpel of Nico and the Navigators. The ensemble is stages Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, putting a contemporary spin on what the great comic composer called his “poor little Mass”.
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Interview: director Peter Sellars. His new production, Desdemona, was written by author Toni Morrison and receives its German premiere at spielzeit'europa on Nov 10.
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Evidence of Dilated Peoples. He’s backpacking across Europe with underground undulators Atmosphere, Blueprint and Brother Ali, so toss on a hoodie and cargo shorts, for they shall all wander among us...
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director Ivette Löcker. Löcker discusses her film here in anticipation of its screening at our monthly EXBlicks (a joint cooperation with realeyz.tv) on November 14 at Lichtblick Kino.
View ArticleTango and Cash: Gotan Project’s Philippe Cohen Solal
The electro-tango superstars celebrate 10 years of Argentinean steak with a DJ gig at Prince Charles on Nov 17. Exberliner did the dip with go-getter Solal in February 2007.
View ArticleMy perfect Berlin weekend: Jason Forrest
Jason Forrest is one of the founders of Network Awesome curating the online annals of obscure.
View ArticleMy perfect Berlin weekend: Sandra Sarala
Sandra Sarala is a singing New Zealander poet with a sideline in folk lullabies and eastern European song. Since 2002, she has been a staple of the Berlin literary scene.
View ArticleDon't mention the G-word
Death camps, mass executions, starvation and eugenics are all part of the lexicon of horror associated with Germany’s past. But few know they date back to German colonial rule in Namibia, 40 years...
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SHOP editor Ana Finel Honigman. The New York-born authority lends her wit and knowledge to her work for top style publications, such as British Vogue.
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Interview: Jorinde Dröse. Staging Hans Fallada's last, most famous and recently rediscovered work, Jeder stirbt für sich allein, Dröse brushes aside the obscurity that the author faced after his death...
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Interview: The Dø. For them, it’s all about the two: a coupling of two genders, two nations and now, two full-length albums. They’ll be plugging their new album Both Ways Open Jaws at Postbahnhof on...
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Awesome Tapes from Africa, aka Brian Shimkovitz. Famed for filling a niche posting rare, modern African cassettes on his blog, he’ll be curating a night at this year’s Worldtronics on December 2.
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2000 Graduates from Connecticut College with keyboardist Lee Sargent; the two form Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
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DENNIS KARSTEN, director of Mauerpark, a film about Berlin’s beloved park, its birds, tourists, bongo drums, cleaners, ageing DJs and basketball nuts in the backdrop of looming gentrification.
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