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The Week in Germany: Culture
May 11, 2007
Readings: TWIG Cannot Cover it All - But We Can Tell You Where
to Find it!
As you might imagine, the TWIG editors spend a lot of time sifting through
the mountain of information available on the Internet about Germany. For
those of you who are not quite as surflustig, we continue our
roving weekly selection of links to top-notch writing about Germany on
the Web. If you like TWIG, you might find these stories interesting as
well.
Happy Reading!
 Lost
in the Stars: An Attempt to Revive Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya on Broadway
The New Yorker delves into "LoveMusik", a new production
at the Biltmore Theater on Broadway that follows the lives of the unlikeliest
of lovers – the brilliant German composer Kurt Weill (Michael Cerveris)
and a lusty girl from the streets of Vienna who became his muse and star,
Lotte Lenya (Donna Murphy). After the success of “The Threepenny
Opera,” Weill and Lenya escape the rapidly approaching war by moving
to the New World. Hilton Als implies that this ambitious production falls
short of delivering the desired effect, suggesting "we can’t
help thinking that the play could have begun here, with the drama of the
two formidable Teutonic artists struggling to find their way amid the
glaring billboards and the American penchant to please." LoveMusik
is an epic romance, set in Berlin, Paris, Broadway and Hollywood, spanning
25 years in the lives of this complicated couple.
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| Tzimon Barto |
Arnie
of the Ivories
In an article that originally appeared in German in Die Welt, music
and theater critic Kai Luehrs-Kaiser waxes euphoric over Florida-born,
bodybuilding pianist and "Peter Pan genius" Tzimon Barto, who
is back after a long abscence from the classical music scene with a fabulous
new recording of Ravel. "He is a bizarre mixture of rancher, literature
lover and big piano-playing girl's blouse. But the pastel miracle of his
"Gaspard de la Nuit", the mirror effects of his "Jeux d'Eau"
and his Ravellian "Miroirs" are without parallel," Luehrs-Kaiser
gushes. "Of all the self-promoters in the piano world, he is the
most subtly happy. Of all the comeback wonders in recent years, the greatest."
The
Unofficial List
In an article that originally appeared in German on Artnet, Ludwig
Seyfarth waxes slightly sarcastic on the "possible and probable"
list of participants at this year's documenta, given that the official
list of artists at the documenta 12 will be announced only shortly before
the international contemporary art exhibition gets kicks off in Kassel
on June 16.
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| Petra Hedorfer |
What
Makes Germany Such an Attractive Destination?
In this interview, German National Tourist Borad (DZT) CEO Petra Hedorfer
talks about Germany's new image, the increasing numbers of visitors and
Germany as a land of art and culture - the subject of the latest issue
of the magazine Deutschland, available at the informative and colorful
Deutschland Online website featuring news and views on all things German
at www.magazine-deutschland.de.
Links:
Deutschland
Online
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about documenta 12 (Deutschland Online)
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about LoveMusik (GermanyinNYC.org)
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and More Students are Discovering "Campus Germany" (Deutschland
Online)
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