Kultur am Rüdi - Eintritt frei
Vorträge - Konzerte - Filme
IBZ - Wiesbadener Straße 18, 14197 Berlin
(nähe Rüdesheimer Platz)

Dienstag, 14. September 2010, 19.30 Uhr
Tuesday, 14th of September 2010, 7.30 pm
Links between City and Country in Brazil
How are urban and rural areas related to each other in Brazil, a country of 180 million inhabitants whose territory is some 24 times bigger than the German one?
As to this issue there are at least two usual images circulating here in Germany: on the one hand, abundant nature and country (and agriculture); on the other hand, enormous megacities with big social problems. In sum: a lot of city, a lot of country. But what are the relations between both?
Frehse hopes to demonstrate in her speech that in Brazil the transition from country to city, which is relevant to differentiating between country and city as such, is an ongoing and never-ending process. To put it in a nutshell: the transition is not transitory; it is the way one lives and is, in Brazil.

Donnerstag, 7. Oktober 2010, 19.30 Uhr
Thursday, 7th of October 2010, 7.30 pm
Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin´s Kremlim
Reading in english / Lesung in englisch
"A story told to show the horrors of fate, of personal mis-_treatment and suffering by real people"
- from the foreword by Robert Conquest
A founding father of the Soviet Union at the age of twenty nine, Nikolai Bukharin was the editor of Pravda and an intimate Lenin's exile. (Lenin later dubbed him "the favorite of the party.") But after forming an alliance with Stalin to remove Leon Trotsky from power, Bukharin crossed swords with Stalin over their differing visions of the world's first socialist state and paid the ultimate price with his life. Bukharin's wife, Anna Larina, the stepdaughter of a high Bolshevik official, spent much of her life in prison camps and in exile after her husband's execution.
In Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina, Paul Gregory sheds light on how the world's first socialist state went terribly wrong and why it was likely to veer off course through the story of two of Stalin's most prominent victims. Drawn from Hoover Institution archival documents, the story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina begins with the optimism of the socialist revolution and then turns into a dark saga of foreboding and terror as the game changes from political struggle to physical survival. Told for the most part in the words of the participants, it is a story of courage and cowardice, strength and weakness misplaced idealism, missed opportunities, bungling, and, above all, love.

Donnerstag, 02. September 2010, 19.30 Uhr
Thursday, 2nd of August 2010, 7.30 pm
A lecture/demonstration on the roots of Japanese culture and its syncretistic evolution, on the three genres of Japanese traditional theatres—the aristocratic Noh theatre, which is combined with the comic Kyogen theatre, and the popular Kabuki theatre.
This exploration will be based also on the lecturer's own experience in performing main roles in these genres in Tokyo during the 1980s-90s together with celebrated performers of these theatres. The lecture includes live demonstrations, slides and video clips.
Zvika Serper
Professor and former Chairperson of the Department of East Asian Studies and Professor at the Department of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University. He is a specialist in Japanese theatre and cinema, as well as a theatre director and actor.
Serper studied in Japan for eight years during which he pursued his research at the Noh Theatre Research Institute of Hosei University, Tokyo, as well as undergoing practical study, training and performances of Noh, Kyogen and Kabuki with Japan's leading actors. During the last two decades Serper has been exploring a new horizon that traditional Japanese theatres may open up for Western theatre, by incorporating various Japanese aesthetics and techniques into highly appraised productions, whose video recordings have been shown around the world.
Zvika Serper has published numerous articles on various aspects of Japanese theatre and cinema, and he has given lectures/demonstrations and conducted master classes and workshops overseas in acting and movement techniques at major theatres, acting schools and universities. Currently, he is a Fellow of the "Interweaving Performance Cultures" International Research Center, Institute for Theater Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
Donnerstag, 19. August 2010, 19.30 Uhr
Thursday, 19th of August 2010, 7.30 pm
Lesung in deutsch
Talk in german. English translations and questions possible
Evelyn Weissberg liest aus den Büchern der edition Friedenauer Brücke
" Friedenau erzählt - Geschichten aus einem Berliner Vorort"
Mit einem Bildervortrag und Texten von Georg Hermann, über Rosa Luxemburg, die Bildgießerei Noack, Wachtmeister Meier, Theodor Heuss, Kurt Tucholsky, die Comedian Harmonist, Dada in Friedenau und vieles mehr!
im IBZ-Saal / in the IBZ assembly room
Der Eintritt ist frei • Admission free
Donnerstag, 22. Juli 2010, 19.30 Uhr
im IBZ-Saal - Der Eintritt ist frei
Impressionistische Naturlieder & Klaviermusik
Cécile van Bethum - Mezzosopran • Hans Brandner - Klavier
Die Mezzosopranistin Cécile van Bethum studierte Gesang an der Guildhall School in London und bei Prof. Jochen Grossman (UdK Berlin). Als freischaffende Künstlerin hat sie ein weites Tätigkeitsfeld von Opernpartien bis hin zu mittelalterlichen Vokalensembles. Ihr Schwerpunkt liegt bei Kunstliedern des 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderts.
Hans Brandner absolvierte die Piano Performance LRSM beim Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London und ist zudem MA in Musikwissenschaft. Seine künstlerische Tätigkeit reicht von Solokonzerten über Liedbegleitung bis hin zu Stummfilmbegleitung. Im Mittelpunkt seines theoretischen Interesses steht die Auseinandersetzung mit der musikalischen Körper- und Spielmethodik am Klavier.
Der musikalische Impressionismus war stark von der Malerei geprägt. Entgegen dem üblichen Arbeiten innerhalb eines Ateliers, begannen einige französische Künstler, wie z.B. Claude Monet, in der Natur unter freiem Himmel zu malen. Statt klarer Konturen setzten sie subjektiv wahrgenommene Farbe, Licht und Schatten auf der Leinwand ein. Entscheidend wurde schließlich der Eindruck (frz. l'impression) des Augenblicks. Diese sehr intensive Naturwahrnehmung findet man in den impressionistischen Liedern und ihren Texten wieder. Eine Auswahl entsprechender Werke von Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré und Ottorino Respighi vermitteln diese impressionistischen Gefühle und Stimmungen, eingerahmt von ebenfalls naturinspirierter Klaviermusik.
Thursday, 22nd of July 2010, 7.30 pm
in the IBZ assembly room • Admission free
Impressionistic Nature Songs and Piano Music
Cécile van Bethum - Mezzo-soprano • Hans Brandner - Piano
The mezzo-soprano Cécile van Bethum studied voice at the Guildhall School in London and with Prof. Jochen Grossman (UdK Berlin). Her musical activities reach from opera to medieval vocal ensembles. In her main focus are art songs of the 18th to the 20th century.
Hans Brandner passed the piano performance LRSM at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in London and made his MA in musicology. His activities cover solo concerts, song and silent film accompaniment. In focus of his theoretical interests are body and playing techniques at the piano.
Impressionism in music was highly influenced by that style of painting. In contrary of working in a studio french artists like e.g. Claude Monet began to paint in nature under free sky. They used subjective light perception, shadow and color instead of distinct contours. Essential became the impression of the moment.
This very intensive perception of nature is determining the impressionistic art songs and it's texts. A selection of corresponding works from Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré and Ottorino Respighi mediate these feelings and moods, framed by likewise nature inspired piano music.