In de serie In Perspectief kijkt Erik Akkermans terug en vooruit naar ontwikkelingen in cultuurbeleid en -praktijk. Vandaag: het Cultureel Forum in Budapest in 1985 en een hernieuwde koude oorlog. Dit jaar is het 35 jaar geleden dat de Berlijnse muur viel. Nog maar kort daarvoor werd er tussen Warschaupact en NAVO-landen intensief gesproken over veiligheid, ontwapening en vrije culturele…
Grote internationale erkenning ten spijt, vindt de Hongaarse schrijver László Krasznahorkai zelf elke roman mislukt. ‘Ik span mijn hersens in tot het uiterste in, maar het wordt nooit het boek dat het zou moeten zijn. Dus begin ik weer opnieuw. En opnieuw.’ Hoop op verlossing die teloorgaat Verfilmingen van zijn romans en het winnen van de prestigieuze Man Booker International…
When he left Dunbar over two years ago for a round-the-world bicycle trip, Scottish Dean Nicholson (32) could not have suspected how much his life would change. When he rescued a kitten a few weeks old from a ditch in Bosnia, his life took a completely different turn. Since then, Nala and he have been inseparable, cycling together...
'Nothing can make up for the past. But the real, enduring power of the past lies in how it affects our present and our future. What we can do is shape a future history in which we consciously and determinedly carry with us only the best of our past.' Not keep rooting, but cognitive behavioural therapy for the whole of Europe, you might...
On 26 April 1986, an explosion occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. To this day, it is one of the most catastrophic disasters caused by man. The effects of the nuclear disaster are felt even today. For many, Chernobyl represents a long-forgotten memory. Places with a macabre history have always drawn people and...
Three black men wash up on a small island. This threatens to throw a spanner in the works of the residents and their economic plans. So everyone prefers to pretend that nothing has happened. Archipelago of the Dog, Philippe Claudel's new novel, is a haunting book with lightness peeking through at times. The French bestselling author worries: 'Once, nuclear weapons constituted...
Hungarian composer György Ligeti (1923-2006) suffered under several dictatorships; the Nazis killed his father and brother during World War II, and after the War the Communists forced him to write sweet 'folk music'. After the 1956 Hungarian uprising, he fled to Vienna and then to Cologne. In the West, he unpopularised into an idiosyncratic composer, who already...
‘Een uitzinnige beheersing’ heet de documentaire die Manon Lichtveld en Bas Westerhof over Krisztina de Châtel maakten. De emoties komen pas echt los bij het bezoeken van het ouderlijk huis in Hongarije. We kwamen ze tegen in de Rabozaal van de Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam. Zij waren ook aan het filmen. Bas Westerhof en Manon Lichtveld. Cameraman Leo van Emden en ik volgden Koert…
On Thursday 19 October, Peter Eötvös conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in the Dutch premiere of his organ concerto Multiversum, which he commissioned for the company. His brand new composition is flanked by works by György Ligeti and Claude Vivier. Transylvania's rich musical tradition Hungarian composer and conductor Peter Eötvös (Székelyudvarhely, 1944) grew up in Transylvania. Towards the end of...
Already during her studies, Loes Visser (1959) formed the Alpha Chamber Orchestra. In 1990, she initiated the Adamello Ensemble and, seventeen years later, she founded the Britten Youth String Orchestra, with which she is now celebrating its second anniversary. What drives her and what are her best experiences? Chamber orchestra "I founded the Alpha Chamber Orchestra because there was a need",...
Zowel in het opvallende Hongaarse debuut On Body and Soul als in de subversieve Poolse thriller Pokot (Spoor) spelen dieren een opvallende rol. Twee sterke films in de Berlijnse competitie.
This week saw the publication of Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller's autobiography, My Homeland, an Apple Pit. A few years ago, A Quattro Mani had an exclusive interview with the Romanian writer, when her first collection of poetry collages was published, The Skirt-chaser and its sly aunt. We spoke to her at her home in Berlin, she revealed how her poetry collages are created, and the making...
But then. A day before Christmas, the prime minister experiences a sleepless night. He has no appetite for the Glühwein provided by the housekeeping service. The Christmas pastry, delivered by a friendly VVD baker, remains untouched. The security guards see their object sitting upright in his bed... Read and shudder That summer evening, Michelle de Kat sits smugly in a corner of the blood-hot studio
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) werd in eigen tijd vereerd als een ware duivelskunstenaar, die met zijn virtuoze pianospel het hart van menige vrouw op hol deed slaan. Maar vóór alles was hij een vernieuwer, die de ambitie koesterde ‘een speer in de oneindige ruimte van de toekomst te slingeren’. De Concertzender belicht woensdag 2 december twee uur lang leven en werk…
Gisteren werd de lang verwachte Filmtop gehouden. Op deze besloten bijeenkomst ontmoetten de ministers Bussemaker (OCW) en Kamp (Economische Zaken) een groot aantal vertegenwoordigers van de filmsector. Het overleg ging over
Documentairemaakster Femke Stroomer en Sanne Sprenger maken het komend jaar met twee klassen van de Internationale Schakelklas (ISK) twee films onder de titel Ik ben hier. Deel twee van een reportage over dit Community Arts Project van de Vrede van Utrecht.
Photo: Pierre Nydegger To conclude. The 2011 Holland Festival could well be historic. Not only was it the festival that attracted the most audiences for years, it was also the festival that took place while a minority government of populists, nationalists and materialists proclaimed the end of art subsidies. We therefore look back on a festival in which we were able to meet with...
In conclusion. The 2011 Holland Festival could well be historic. Not only was it the festival that attracted the most audiences for years, it was also the festival that took place while a minority government of populists, nationalists and materialists proclaimed the end of art subsidies. We therefore look back on a festival in which we had a great time with our new...
Actors wearing sort of harem trousers and bamboo sticks on a nondescript playing surface. Some of you may think back nostalgically or with trepidation to the days when there were 'Akademies voor Ekspressie' in the Netherlands. Summits of socio-art. Sometime deep in the 1970s, that is. Maladype Theatre, from Hungary, fits seamlessly into that picture, which...
De leraren zeggen het voor, er klinkt een fluitje. Het publiek zegt het na, als was in de handen van de vijf Chinezen op het podium. Wie de voorstelling C’est du Chinois binnenwandelt, wandelt een taalles Mandarijn binnen. Een effectieve taalles bovendien, je verstaat de twee kleine families– ze zijn pas vier maanden in het land maar van plan om te…
Invisible forces, described as angels, speaking through a Jewish woman to her friends at the time of the Holocaust in Hungary. A mysterious and true story, translated into the one-woman performance Talking with Angels by American actress Shelley Mitchell. A huge success in America. Yesterday on stage for the first time in the Netherlands.
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