Villa Aurora Events Archive
October 2014
Villa Aurora Night 2014
Berlin
Villa Aurora Night 2014
Together with guests from the worlds of art, culture, and politics, we celebrated Villa Aurora Night again this year; this time at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
Following a welcome address by Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering, Chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, John B. Emerson, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, delivered a speech in which he emphasized the role of Villa Aurora in transatlantic dialogue and in his hometown of Los Angeles. Dr. Günter Winands, former Ministerial Director/State Secretary and representative of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, joined the previous speakers in commenting on the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement and current debates regarding relations between the U.S. and Germany.
In a video presentation, we introduced the 2015 scholarship recipients and some of their work. Following the official portion of the event, we hosted a get-together in the club rooms of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and screened short films by former and future scholarship recipients Axel Ranisch, Katrin Gebbe, Stefan Kriekhaus, Alice Agneskircher, and David Sieveking.
Review: Artist Residencies
München
The Importance of Artist Residencies
As part of the panel discussion “The Studio in a Foreign Land,” artists—including Villa Fellows Albert Weis (2009), the chairman of Villa Aurora, Markus Klimmer (pictured left), as well as other representatives of international funding organizations and policymakers, discussed the impact of artist residencies on foreign cultural policy and artistic development on October 24 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
LIFELINES: NEW YORK - BERLIN
Berlin
A biographical exchange between Edmund White and Jörn Jacob Rohwer
With his novels and essays Edmund White is one of the most important literary figures of the closing 20th and early 21st century. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1940, White published autobiographical works, biographies of Genet and Proust, and essays reflecting homosexual reality. He lives in New York and teaches creative writing at Princeton University.
Jörn Jacob Rohwer, born 1965 in Rendsburg, Germany, and a writer in his own right, particularly as the author of biographical conversations, contacted White in 2000. The course of these two writers' lives could hardly be more different, but they share a passion for the (auto)biographical, which is of specific meaning to Rohwer's latest book, "The Seismography of Questioning" - an extensive collection of conversations with luminaries from the arts, sciences and society.
About fifteen years after they first met in Paris, the two intellectuals will reunite by invitation of Villa Aurora at Gay Museum Berlin, in an extended conversation about life, scripts and mutual friends.
Schwules Museum* Berlin
Lützowstraße 73, 10785 Berlin
Admission: 6€ / 4€
VAMPIRES
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Leibniz Saal Akademiegebäude Gendarmenmarkt, Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin)
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The Vampire is, without any doubt, part of the pool of psychological projections, but what is the link to libraries, cabinets of wonders, vegetarianism and Vienna? All of these questions and many more will be pursued during this transatlantic night of vampires. Our guests are Prof. Dr. Laurence Rickels, publisher of "Vampire Lectures", and Prof. Dr. Eric Steinhauer, author of "Vampyrologie für Bibliothekare". Irm Hermann and others will read from the - so far - unpublished screenplay "Die Blutgräfin" by Ulrike Ottinger and Elfriede Jelinek, and Laurence Rickels’ short "Spout" will proof one more time: "once you go with a vampire there is no going back!"
This event is not recommended for children under 12 years of age.
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