GERMANY

A Few indications
From the beauty of the cathedrals to the essential philosophers, from the greatest classical composers to grunge and industrial music of today, from the genius of Goethe to Brecht’s revolutionary theatre, German art is among Europe’s richest. One of the greatest German artists, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), was a poet, playwright, painter, scientist and philosopher. And, how could one fail to mention Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven and Richard Wagner? Germany has also given birth to some remarkable plastic artists, such as Peter Vischer, Albert Dürer and Balthasar Neumann. Germany has also done itself proud in the most recent kinds of artistic expression, such as avant-garde cinema, contemporary photography and contemporary painting- sculpture, of which artist Anselm Kiefer is a part.

Organisation of cultural policies
In the Federal Republic of Germany, the Bund (Federation), the Länder (federal States) and the communes together constitute a tri-partite system of public cultural policy. Political responsibility is held by the legislative organs of the Bund and of the Länder, by the autonomous assemblies of the districts, and by their cultural commissions. Technical implementation is up to the governmental authorities (Culture Ministries) or the district administrations (culture departments). Under the constitution, the public tasks and powers in connection with cultural policy are for the Länder. German cultural policy is organised on the basis of federal and decentralised mode. In addition to the Bund and the Länder, the district authorities, and the “Landkreise” subdivisions have also received cultural assignments within the general structure of public powers.

Events connected with the Country

Franco-German Tandem

1^st – 2^nd November in Paris, Théâtre national de Chaillot and in Pantin, Centre national de la danse
Dance Hip Hop
Es war einmal… (once upon a time)
Choreography: Storm
Show presented at Chaillot. Workshops offered at the CND (National Dance Centre)

And also…

9th October – 7th November at Lille, Goethe Institute – CAUE du Nord
Exhibition
Panoramas and fragments: The 1918 landscapes revisited.

9-10 October in Lille, Goethe Institute – CAUE du Nord
Study days
Landscape sensitivities in border areas (1918-2008)
These days are aimed at crossing the vision of photographers of landscapes in contemporary northern France with the letters, notebooks, drawings and photographs of French, German or Belgian soldiers who passed through the department in 1914-1918.

7-18 October in Nancy, Goethe Institute
Exhibition
German Jazz            
Within the framework of the “Pulsations “ Jazz Festival.

October in Paris, Nancy, Luxemburg and Cologne
Concert
Jazz on tour
A German-French-Luxemburg jazz tour, with the Jazz department of the higher school of music of Cologne and students from the Paris conservatory.

November in Nancy, Goethe Institute
Exhibition
Concerning letters and diaries by German and French authors, from 1914 to 1918, organised within the framework of the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I.
International colloquium
An unforgotten war: Memories of World War I in Europe organised in partnership with the Maison des sciences de l’homme (house of human sciences), in Nancy.

December-February in Paris, Centre Pompidou and Goethe Institute
Cinema
The world of Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog retrospective: Director, actor and German opera director born in 1942.

On the occasion of the French Presidency of the European Union the Land of Northrhine-Westphalia presents an exceptional European cultural season, in France and in Germany:

16^th October-November in Villeurbanne, Institut d’art contemporain
Exhibition
European partnerships
Exhibition of contemporary art produced by the Museum of Modern Art of Siegen

September-December in Strasbourg, Lyon, Paris, Fénétrange and Versailles
Concert
French tour by the Concerto Köln.

2^nd October-4^th January in Paris Musée d’Art Moderne
Exhibition
Photographs from the Fine Arts Academy in Düsseldorf
An exhibition describing the history of German photography objectivity, from the 1970’s, to the present, and grouping teachers and students from the academy: From Bernd and Hilda Becher to Andreas Gursky and including Elger Esser, Hans-Peter Feldmann and Thomas Struth….

2^nd October-November in Paris, Goethe Institute
Debate
The photographers of the Fine Arts Academy of Düsseldorf
Echoing the exhibition, a series of debates attended by artists (Andreas Gursky presented by Werner Spies etc.).

4th-11^th October in Bobigny, MC 93
Theatre
Theatre festival of Northrhine Westphalia
Presenting three of the best theatrical stagings put on during the launch in the 2007-2008 season.

5^th October in Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet
Concert
Synchronic Orchestra of Cologne’s WDR
Directed by: Brad Lubman
Works by Bernd Alois Zimmerman, Gérard Pesson, Iannis Xenakis. Within the framework of the autumn Festival

For more information call :
Centre culturel Goethe-Institut Paris
17 avenue d’Iéna - 75116 Paris
Tel.: +33 1 44439230
Fax: +33 1 44439240
info@paris.goethe.org
http://www.goethe.de/ins/fr/par/frindex.html

 

• Updated: 04.09.2008

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