Transcripts For DW Arts And Culture 20240712

A long slog but after almost 2 and a half years of construction and delays due to the pandemic berlins Jewish Museum has a new core exhibition. Germanys culture minister has high hopes for the opening. The opening of a new permanent exhibition marks the beginning of a new era in this place which is so important for us all. As space has been created where jewish people can recognize their own lived experience and when non jewish visitors can also read and learn about the richness of jewish culture and German Jewish relations. There are also high hopes for the museums new director hetty beg she took over in april and has an exciting and challenging road ahead. The Jewish Museum striking design for summit zigzag shape resembles the shattered star of david fathers a bolt of lightning. Bug attacked done your labor skinned won the commission in 1988 the year before the fall of the berlin wall. This consort not to simply design a museum but also Say Something about jewish history people around the world marveled when his Museum Opened its doors in 2001 the museum made headlines again in 2018 when the exhibition welcome to jerusalem was said by some to be empty zionist. Museums then curator Peter Schaffer resigned of accusations that he was supporting the palestinian led b. D. S. Movement to boycott defaced from and sanction israel a wave of controversy the museum has tried to move on from. The new exhibition is part of the museums speed for a new start existing of most of installations about the holocaust remaining now with 1700. 00. The use of jewish german history in similarly innocent fashion we didnt Commission Meeting Virtual Reality to have destroyed cynical sound installations and sculpture. And my colleague mike a crew goes here to chat about this new chapter for bruins Jewish Museum welcome mike allen a really personal note i have to say i actually was really relieved about this new exhibition because the 1st time i remember the 1st time i went to this museum and i was just incensed also being jewish myself that there was all of this all of these exhibitions about the extermination of jews but i got no real sense that there was an understanding that jews are living people exactly i had exact the same feeling you did a bit i missed a formation about the jewish culture and the religion they really needed to change and it didnt really reflect the experience of jewish people nowadays now to be fair to the jurist museum so this exhibition the building is really it looks great but it is not an easy building not at all its built like a scotch and not as a building with chop angles and even floor very challenging full curators indeed nevertheless the ritual prominent exhibition that received more than 11000000 visitors well now everything is a bit different we have visual media the true Reality Interactive games because the audience has changed its the digit to generation and there is much more interest in the jewish culture and history far beyond the whole of cost and of the same time you have antisemitism rising all around the world and one very important one of the critiques of this museum has been that it doesnt really show its called the Jewish Museum but it doesnt really show a jewish perspective how will we expect that to change a thing the new. Direct head back will ensure this because she is jewish herself. And no astroturfing is director wasnt previously surprisingly indeed and shes a very good networker shes been doing this job for years and amsterdam and she really cleaned out quite a bit in the museum the rules are less overloaded now and at the same time they are more original i thames so that it fits perfect with the architecture and i think shes able at that mall britches between the institution and of course the Jewish Community in germany as was missing in the past the museum is still the museum is still a German Institution but now on the jewish leadership there and we talked to her just a little while ago to hear what she had to say about how the museums approach has changed oh what i really love is that we have several contemporary works of art where these artists reject i dare to do. Historical periods or to do theme and indepth way during the school temporary comments on what we are what we are attending and its also a good way for the board humans to relate to it and there are of course a lot of hope spirit put on had to be buried as the new director of berlins Jewish Museum micah thanks so much for coming on the thank you david. And now to something completely different the accordion as generally speaking not considered the sexiest of instruments you wont find crowds of screaming teenagers following accordion players around but if anyone could change that it is hard to miss live its guess a 30 year old lithuanian virtue oso is knocking a layer of dust off the old squeeze box with performances full of dynamism and passion and recordings that range from classical to lady gaga covers actually for years hes tried to prove that the accordion is fit for more than just folklore well now finally hes ready to go back to his roots. A long time in my life i tried to run away from fall. But then because i lived in london i met a lot of people who wanted to know more about me deeply so yeah it means a lot in my heart and im happy that i came back to its. The way i mean martina snippets in states including places you might not expect like the steel works quite well to coast. New places for Old Fashioned instruments a lot of people see it as very Old Fashioned. Grannies type of instrument but it is one of the youngest. In the entire music instrument family. I was was. Martinezs 1st experience of the accordion came as a young boy in his parents summer house he didnt start formal training until the age of 8. He then went on to study the instrument at university in london and spain. Today martin is live its cause has his own orchestra together to explore the accordion in obits facets. Was together with the composer younus about modernist plans to take part in the make West Pomerania Music Festival with the music piece based on the sounds of industrial Metal Production show how sweet will steal sweet the festival has been postponed until next summer gita the coronavirus 45 musicians a busy collecting sounds. From a childhood that saw him taking inspiration the forest outside little whiniest Capitol Building to the world stage the accordion master is on his way. And spray paints or marks in a high volume got his start like modest tagging walls illegally. Knight now the artist gets paid to cover entire buildings from top to bottom with his designs transforming eyesores into colorful surprises that bring a little bit more tearfulness into germany industrial landscapes. Everyone knows lego toy bricks but not like base an artist martin hoy vault isnt a colorful little plastic pieces in a completely new way these oversized lego bricks in different colors have completely changed the appearance of a plane concrete bridge. Closures most of us now want to do Something Different and unique something the viewer doesnt really expect. I tried using wooden services or tried ice at some point i spoke to my partner about it and she was in a bit of a hurry and then said why dont you try using lego thats how the idea came about. This work german facade award in 2012 which made him a world renowned artist makes as hes known in the graffiti art scene kids buildings a totally new identity like this maintenance house tricity company. The. 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