Villa Aurora Events Archive
November 2019
Walls - An International Conference
Los Angeles (UCLA Royce Hall 314)
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Actress Susanne Sachsse will join the conference via Skype, director and producer Can Candan’s film Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls will be screened, and scholars Ilse Helbrecht, David Kim, Kalani Michell, Isotta Poggi, Todd Presner, Yasemin Yildiz, and Maite Zubiaurre will lead a roundtable discussion on these central questions.
"A Woman Walks through Socialism"
1:pm–1:30pm
Susanne Sachsse | A long distance performance
"Duvarlar - Mauern - Walls"
2:00pm–3:30pm
Can Candan | Documentary film screening
Coffee Break
3:30pm–4:00pm
"The Berlin Wall and Unification: Nationalism, Populism, and Memory"
4:00pm–5:30pm
Panel discussion | Participants:
Ilse Helbrecht (Humboldt University, Visiting Scholar, TMH)
David Kim (UCLA)
Kalani Michell (UCLA)
Todd Presner (UCLA)
Yasemin Yildiz (UCLA)
Maite Zaubiaurre (UCLA)
Reception at 306 Royce Hall
5:30pm
Partners
An event by UCLA Department of Germanic Languages in collaboration with Thomas Mann House and the Getty Research Institute.
LA Premiere Screening: Artur Schnabel. No Place of Exile - A Film by Matthew Mishory
Los Angeles
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A legend among pianists of the twentieth century, Artur Schnabel (1882–1951) is best known as the first performer to record the complete cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas. The exiled Austro-German musician and composer was a giant of his time, but today he is nearly forgotten.
No Place of Exile is the cinematic rediscovery of an essential 20th century artist displaced by the catastrophe of the two World Wars and the Holocaust and inspired by the possibilities of modernism.
The film follows pianist and Schnabel devotee Markus Pawlik as he prepares to bring Artur Schnabel’s greatest compositions back to Germany in a major commemorative concert at Berlin's Musikfest. Along the way, we visit the places, landscapes, and history that shaped and inspired Schnabel’s life and music. Commenting on and performing Schnabel’s oeuvre are celebrated actor Udo Samel and musical personalities such as Dietrich Henschel, Igor Levit, Kent Nagano, Leon Fleisher, Jeanne Bamberger, and Walter Arlen.
A Q&A will follow the screening. The evening will open with a performance of Robert Schumann's Phantasie op. 17 (1st mvt.) by Markus Pawlik.
Presented by
Light on Shadow / Monolithic Films / Matthew Mishory
and Villa Aurora
Watch the trailer here: www.noplaceofexile.com
Partners
Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V. is supported by the German Federal Foreign Office and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
