Podcasts about Villa Aurora

Was kann es bedeuten, heute konservativ zu sein? Wie lässt sich aus konservativer Sicht auf gesell­schaft­liche Erneuerungen blicken? Wann wird aus dem Wunsch nach Bewahren eine Blockade? Wie kann ein neues „Wir“ gelingen, das Tradition und Offenheit verbindet? Und welche Orien­tie­rung können Bekenntnisse zu Religion, Familie und Heimat dabei noch geben? Düzen Tekkal (Autorin und Journalistin), Christoph Möllers (HU zu Berlin, Aka­de­mie­­mitglied) und Simon Strauß (Autor und Journalist) sprechen mit Moderatorin Shelly Kupferberg (rbb Kultur, Deutschlandfunk Kultur) über die Möglichkeiten konserva­tiven Denkens und Lebens in Zeiten weit­rei­chen­der Umbrüche und Transfor­mationen. Eine Veranstaltung von Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e.V. und BBAW Den Originalbeitrag und mehr finden Sie bitte hier: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/salon_sc_2025_konservativ_sein_in_zeiten_des_wandels

Was kann es bedeuten, heute konservativ zu sein? Wie lässt sich aus konservativer Sicht auf gesell­schaft­liche Erneuerungen blicken? Wann wird aus dem Wunsch nach Bewahren eine Blockade? Wie kann ein neues „Wir“ gelingen, das Tradition und Offenheit verbindet? Und welche Orien­tie­rung können Bekenntnisse zu Religion, Familie und Heimat dabei noch geben? Düzen Tekkal (Autorin und Journalistin), Christoph Möllers (HU zu Berlin, Aka­de­mie­­mitglied) und Simon Strauß (Autor und Journalist) sprechen mit Moderatorin Shelly Kupferberg (rbb Kultur, Deutschlandfunk Kultur) über die Möglichkeiten konserva­tiven Denkens und Lebens in Zeiten weit­rei­chen­der Umbrüche und Transfor­mationen. Eine Veranstaltung von Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e.V. und BBAW Den Originalbeitrag und mehr finden Sie bitte hier: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/salon_sc_2025_konservativ_sein_in_zeiten_des_wandels

This week's episode of then & now is part of a series examining the effects of one of the most powerful and destructive natural disasters in U.S. history: the Los Angeles Wildfires. Co-sponsored by the L.A. History Collaborative— a new consortium of cultural institutions and historians committed to using the tools of history to assist in the reconstruction of the lives and stories of those deeply affected by the L.A. Wildfires—we sit down with E. Randol Schoenberg, an LA-based lawyer and genealogist, to discuss the lives and cultural property lost during this devastating event. As the grandson of Austrian-American composers Arnold Schoenberg and Erich Zeisl, both of whom emigrated to the U.S. to escape the terror of Nazism in Europe and subsequently settled in West L.A, Randy serves as a custodian of his family's historical legacy. Tragically, Randy's family not only lost several homes in the fires but also the entire inventory of sales and rental materials from Belmont Music Publishers, which included manuscripts, original scores, and printed works. The German-Jewish immigrant community has experienced significant cultural loss due to the wildfires, as the Pacific Palisades has historically served as a social hub for German-speaking cultural figures in the mid-twentieth century. In order to memorialize what has been lost, Randy underscores the necessity of recounting and documenting this critical history.E. Randol Schoenberg is an American lawyer and genealogist, based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in legal cases related to the recovery of looted or stolen artworks, particularly those by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. Schoenberg is widely known as one of the central figures of the 2015 film Woman in Gold, which depicted the case of Maria Altmann against the government of Austria. He is also the subject of the 2023 genealogical documentary Fioretta.Further ReadingBelmont Music PublishersA treasure house of composer Arnold Schoenberg's music destroyed in Palisades fireAfter Nazi Plunder, A Quest To Bring Home The 'Woman In Gold'Villa Aurora

Sieb, Antje www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Fazit

Sieb, Antje www.deutschlandfunk.de, Kultur heute

Albath, Maike www.deutschlandfunk.de, Büchermarkt

(00:43) Der US-amerikanische Filmemacher David Lynch ist 78-jährig gestorben. Der Twin-Peaks und "Lost Highway"-Regisseur war für seinen einzigartigen und verstörenden Stil bekannt. Weitere Themen: (05:05) Die Brände in L.A. bedrohen die Villa Aurora und das Thomas-Mann-Haus im sogenannten «Weimar am Pazifik». (09:39) In der «Kluge-Berry-Werkstadt» in St. Moritz interpretiert der Schriftsteller und Filmemacher Alexander Kluge die Gemälde von Peter Robert Berry neu. (14:19) Frédéric Zwickers neuer Roman «Carlas Scherben» untersucht die Zerbrechlichkeit menschlicher Beziehungen. (18:33) «L'histoire de Souleymane» im Kino: Das Leben eines geflüchteten Immigranten und illegalen Lebensmittelkuriers in Paris.

(00:00:42) Grossbrände in Los Angeles bedrohen historische Kulturstätten und Künstlerresidenzen, darunter das Thomas Mann Haus und die Villa Aurora, einst Zufluchtsorte vor den Nationalsozialisten. (00:05:01) «The Last Expedition» – ein Film mit bisher ungesehenem Material einer verschollenen Bergsteigerin. (00:11:04) Wolf Haas' neuer Roman zündet ein erzählerisches Feuerwerk – der Titel: «Wackelkontakt». (00:15:02) Photobastei Zürich: In «Bizart Exhibition» ist die Kunst nicht Mainstream. (00:19:00) Das Austria Kunstforum in Wien steht vor dem Aus.

Zilm, Kerstin www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Fazit

Allroggen, Antje www.deutschlandfunk.de, Kultur heute

Karches, Nora www.deutschlandfunk.de, Büchermarkt

Karches, Nora www.deutschlandfunk.de, Büchermarkt

Auch die Villa Aurora in L.A. ist von den Bränden betroffen. Teile des Gebäudes wurden zerstört. Autorin Sharon Otoo war vor Kurzem noch dort und erklärt, welche kulturelle Bedeutung die Villa Aurora und das Thomas-Mann-Haus heute noch haben. Otoo, Sharon Dodua www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Fazit

Spiegelhauer, Reinhard www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

Spiegelhauer, Reinhard www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

Spiegelhauer, Reinhard www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

"Die Villa Aurora ist eine Zeitkapsel", sagt Claudia Gordon, und in unserem Gespräch mit ihr reisen wir tatsächlich kurz in die Vergangenheit. Denn die Villa Aurora ist nicht einfach nur ein hübsches Haus mit einem klangvollen Namen im Norden von Los Angeles: Es ist ein Ort der internationalen Begegnungen, stein gewordener Zeitzeuge eines Exils am Pazifik und heute auch ein Zuhause auf Zeit für Dutzende Künstler:innen, die dort an ihren Projekten arbeiten und sich dabei immer wieder mit der Geschichte des Hauses beschäftigen.

Die Autorin Julia Franck (Thomas Mann Fellow 2024), der So­ziolo­ge Steffen Mau (Aka­de­mie­mit­glied, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) und der Politiker Wolfgang Schmidt (Chef des Bundes­kanz­ler­amts) sprechen mit Moderatorin Shelly Kupferberg (rbb Kultur, Deutschland­funk Kultur) über die Ge­sell­schaft der Gegenwart und ihre aktuellen Heraus­for­de­rung­en. Welche Trigger­punkte gibt es innerhalb des öffentlichen Diskurses und wie können wir mit ihnen umgehen? Welche Rolle spielen Erinnerungen und Erzählungen für das Miteinander? Und wo verortet sich die Politik innerhalb der Trans­for­mation von Gesellschaft? Eine Veranstaltung von Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V. und der Berlin-Branden­burg­ischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW) Den Originalbeitrag und mehr finden Sie bitte hier: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/die_zeit_in_der_wir_leben?nav_id=11631

Die Autorin Julia Franck (Thomas Mann Fellow 2024), der So­ziolo­ge Steffen Mau (Aka­de­mie­mit­glied, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) und der Politiker Wolfgang Schmidt (Chef des Bundes­kanz­ler­amts) sprechen mit Moderatorin Shelly Kupferberg (rbb Kultur, Deutschland­funk Kultur) über die Ge­sell­schaft der Gegenwart und ihre aktuellen Heraus­for­de­rung­en. Welche Trigger­punkte gibt es innerhalb des öffentlichen Diskurses und wie können wir mit ihnen umgehen? Welche Rolle spielen Erinnerungen und Erzählungen für das Miteinander? Und wo verortet sich die Politik innerhalb der Trans­for­mation von Gesellschaft? Eine Veranstaltung von Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V. und der Berlin-Branden­burg­ischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW) Den Originalbeitrag und mehr finden Sie bitte hier: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/die_zeit_in_der_wir_leben?nav_id=11631

Jakob Scherer arbeitete als Unternehmensberater, bevor er 2022 Geschäftsführer von „Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann Haus“ wurde. Der Verein vergibt an Künstler:innen und Kulturschaffende Stipendien für einen Aufenthalt in Los Angeles, um so den deutsch-amerikanischen Kulturaustausch zu vertiefen. Wie Scherer seine Erfahrungen aus der Welt von Unternehmen in die von Kunst und Kultur einbringt und warum er sich dabei „nicht so wichtig nimmt“, berichtet er im aktuellen „Fantasiemuskel“, dem Monopol-Podcast über Kunst Wirtschaft und gesellschaftliche Transformation.

I interview Hanz Gutierrez about his retracted theological teaching endorsement by the General Conference's International Board of Ministerial and Theological Education. Gutierrez is a longtime Spectrum columnist and chair of the Systematic Theology Department at the Italian Adventist Theological Faculty of Villa Aurora. He recently wrote about the lack of communication and process in this surprising move by the IBMTE and we discuss his experience and his ideas in this special episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Epochen und Gesellschaften unterscheiden sich auch durch ihren Umgang mit existenziellem Verlust voneinander – dem Verlust von Leben, Identität oder körperlicher und seelischer Unversehrtheit. In modernen und insbesondere spätmodernen Gesellschaften mitsamt ihres Fortschrittsversprechens ist der Umgang mit Verlusten durch zusätzliche Besonderheiten gekennzeichnet. Welche Verluste sind angesichts der gezielten und kontinuierlichen disruptiven Transformation von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft überhaupt als solche anerkannt? In welchem Spannungs­verhältnis stehen dabei individuelle und kollektive Verlusterfahrungen? Und welche Verwerfungslinien sind zu erwarten, wenn die Utopie einer Gesellschaft ohne Verluste, Leid und Trauer sich als unerreichbar herausstellt? Diese Fragen stehen im Zentrum des Gesprächs zwischen Akademiemitglied Aleida Assmann (Literaturwissenschaftlerin, Universität Konstanz) und Andreas Reckwitz (Soziologe, HU Berlin), moderiert von Shelly Kupferberg. Eine Kooperation der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW) mit Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V. Den Originalbeitrag und mehr finden Sie bitte hier: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/salonsc23_fortschrittsverlust_e

Epochen und Gesellschaften unterscheiden sich auch durch ihren Umgang mit existenziellem Verlust voneinander – dem Verlust von Leben, Identität oder körperlicher und seelischer Unversehrtheit. In modernen und insbesondere spätmodernen Gesellschaften mitsamt ihres Fortschrittsversprechens ist der Umgang mit Verlusten durch zusätzliche Besonderheiten gekennzeichnet. Welche Verluste sind angesichts der gezielten und kontinuierlichen disruptiven Transformation von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft überhaupt als solche anerkannt? In welchem Spannungs­verhältnis stehen dabei individuelle und kollektive Verlusterfahrungen? Und welche Verwerfungslinien sind zu erwarten, wenn die Utopie einer Gesellschaft ohne Verluste, Leid und Trauer sich als unerreichbar herausstellt? Diese Fragen stehen im Zentrum des Gesprächs zwischen Akademiemitglied Aleida Assmann (Literaturwissenschaftlerin, Universität Konstanz) und Andreas Reckwitz (Soziologe, HU Berlin), moderiert von Shelly Kupferberg. Eine Kooperation der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW) mit Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V. Den Originalbeitrag und mehr finden Sie bitte hier: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/salonsc23_fortschrittsverlust_e

Dass während des Zweiten Weltkriegs deutsche Künstler und Intellektuelle in die USA flohen, ist bekannt. Das Thomas Mann House und die Villa Aurora in Los Angeles zeugen davon. Über die Frauen im Exil weiß man hingegen wenig. Das wollen wir ändern. Von Étienne Roederwww.deutschlandfunk.de, Mikrokosmos

Parte 1 = David y Laura se conocieron estudiando teología en la Universidad de Villa Aurora en Italia. Aunque sus historias son distintivas, nunca pensaron que Dios les tenía un plan como pastores y misioneros del primer mundo. Se casaron, empacaron y se fueron a servir a Dios en el corazón de Suecia.  Conocer como Dios los está usando y los desafíos que tienen es realmente fascinante. 

Following our exclusive interview with Princess Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi, we explore the spectacular and art-filled Rome in a private tour, led by the owner herself! Casino Boncompagni Ludovisi, lovingly referred to as Villa Aurora, boasts an optical illusion by Guercino, four painters trying to outdo each other on the same ceiling for further commissions, a Michelangelo sculpture in the garden (is it??), ancient statuary everywhere you look, and most significantly, a original Caravaggio... and not just any Caravaggio: his only ceiling painting in the world! Discover this singular (and for sale!) home with us. (You only heard it here: the Princess sometimes does yoga under Caravaggio's ceiling mural!) In case you missed it, be sure to go back and listen to the exclusive interview with Princess Rita, taped the same day she showed us around her magnificent home.  To hear more about Villa Aurora and its fascinating history and the art it possesses, listen to Episode 412: The Auction of a Lifetime: The Villa, the Princess, and the Caravaggio; and Bittersweet Moment #30: VILLA AURORA.  Adore Caravaggio (like we do)? Check out Episode 42: CARAVAGGIO, Part 1; and Episode 43: CARAVAGGIO, Part 2. ------------------------------------- ADVERTISE WITH US: Reach expats, future expats, and travelers all over the world. Send us an email to get the conversation started. BECOME A PATRON: Pledge your monthly support of The Bittersweet Life and receive awesome prizes in return for your generosity! Visit our Patreon site to find out more. TIP YOUR PODCASTER: Say thanks with a one-time donation to the podcast hosts you know and love. Click here to send financial support via PayPal. (You can also find a Donate button on the desktop version of our website.) The show needs your support to continue. START PODCASTING: If you are planning to start your own podcast, consider Libsyn for your hosting service! Use this affliliate link to get two months free, or use our promo code SWEET when you sign up. SUBSCRIBE: Subscribe to the podcast to make sure you never miss an episode. Click here to find us on a variety of podcast apps. WRITE A REVIEW: Leave us a rating and a written review on iTunes so more listeners can find us. JOIN THE CONVERSATION: If you have a question or a topic you want us to address, send us an email here. You can also connect to us through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Tag #thebittersweetlife with your expat story for a chance to be featured! NEW TO THE SHOW? Don't be afraid to start with Episode 1: OUTSET BOOK: Want to read Tiffany's book, Midnight in the Piazza? Learn more here or order on Amazon. TOUR ROME: If you're traveling to Rome, don't miss the chance to tour the city with Tiffany as your guide!

In this EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Princess Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi, the elusive American princess opens up about her relationship with the late Prince Nicolò, the unpleasant inheritance fight she's currently embroiled in with her stepsons, how she feels about the prospect of being forced from her home, and—perhaps most intriguingly—what it's like to live at Villa Aurora, a five-hundred-year-old home decorated with paintings by Guercino, Pomerancio, and even Caravaggio, with its gardens full of ancient statuary. Listen to more about Villa Aurora on Bittersweet Moment #30: Villa Aurora and Episode 412 The Auction of a Lifetime: The Villa, the Princess, and the Caravaggio. ------------------------------------- ADVERTISE WITH US: Reach expats, future expats, and travelers all over the world. Send us an email to get the conversation started. BECOME A PATRON: Pledge your monthly support of The Bittersweet Life and receive awesome prizes in return for your generosity! Visit our Patreon site to find out more. TIP YOUR PODCASTER: Say thanks with a one-time donation to the podcast hosts you know and love. Click here to send financial support via PayPal. (You can also find a Donate button on the desktop version of our website.) The show needs your support to continue. START PODCASTING: If you are planning to start your own podcast, consider Libsyn for your hosting service! Use this affliliate link to get two months free, or use our promo code SWEET when you sign up. SUBSCRIBE: Subscribe to the podcast to make sure you never miss an episode. Click here to find us on a variety of podcast apps. WRITE A REVIEW: Leave us a rating and a written review on iTunes so more listeners can find us. JOIN THE CONVERSATION: If you have a question or a topic you want us to address, send us an email here. You can also connect to us through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Tag #thebittersweetlife with your expat story for a chance to be featured! NEW TO THE SHOW? Don't be afraid to start with Episode 1: OUTSET BOOK: Want to read Tiffany's book, Midnight in the Piazza? Learn more here or order on Amazon. TOUR ROME: If you're traveling to Rome, don't miss the chance to tour the city with Tiffany as your guide!

Dass während des Zweiten Weltkriegs deutsche Künstler und Intellektuelle in die USA flohen, ist bekannt. Das Thomas Mann House und die Villa Aurora in Los Angeles zeugen davon. Über die Frauen im Exil weiß man hingegen wenig. Das wollen wir ändern.Von Étienne Roederwww.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Mikrokosmos – Die KulturreportageDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

„The Origin of Values“ ist das Ergebnis der Recherchereisen, welche die fotografierende Dichterin und Villa Aurora-Alumna Sabine Scho und der Fotograf Matthias Holtmann in den vergangenen Jahren unternommen haben: Auf die Insel Vilm bei Rügen, ins Pantanal in Brasilien und die Nationalparks Südafrikas. Sie suchen an Orten ungestörter Natur danach, wie diese ökonomisiert wird durch das, was der Mensch für wert erachtet: der Boden wird zur Ressource, die Wildnis zum Anbaugebiet, der Tierkörper zum Tauschwert. Der hier zum ersten Mal gezeigte Prolog dieser neuen Arbeit beginnt im Pantanal in Brasilien, einem der größten zusammenhängenden Binnenfeuchtgebiete, artenreichsten Hotspots der Erde und UNESCO-Weltnaturerbe. Die Begehrlichkeiten der Gattung Mensch führen dort zu ungezügeltem Flächenverbrauch für den Anbau von Zuckerrohr und Soja. So steht das Feuchtgebiet nun vor seinem Verschwinden – weit entfernt von den nutznießenden Orten des Fleisch- und Ethanolverbrauchs. Ein Beitrag von Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e.V. Den Originalbeitrag und mehr finden Sie bitte hier: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/sophie_charlotte_2125

„The Origin of Values“ ist das Ergebnis der Recherchereisen, welche die fotografierende Dichterin und Villa Aurora-Alumna Sabine Scho und der Fotograf Matthias Holtmann in den vergangenen Jahren unternommen haben: Auf die Insel Vilm bei Rügen, ins Pantanal in Brasilien und die Nationalparks Südafrikas. Sie suchen an Orten ungestörter Natur danach, wie diese ökonomisiert wird durch das, was der Mensch für wert erachtet: der Boden wird zur Ressource, die Wildnis zum Anbaugebiet, der Tierkörper zum Tauschwert. Der hier zum ersten Mal gezeigte Prolog dieser neuen Arbeit beginnt im Pantanal in Brasilien, einem der größten zusammenhängenden Binnenfeuchtgebiete, artenreichsten Hotspots der Erde und UNESCO-Weltnaturerbe. Die Begehrlichkeiten der Gattung Mensch führen dort zu ungezügeltem Flächenverbrauch für den Anbau von Zuckerrohr und Soja. So steht das Feuchtgebiet nun vor seinem Verschwinden – weit entfernt von den nutznießenden Orten des Fleisch- und Ethanolverbrauchs. Ein Beitrag von Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e.V. Den Originalbeitrag und mehr finden Sie bitte hier: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/sophie_charlotte_2125

When the sons of a centuries-old noble Roman family and the American widow of their father, the prince, can't decide who gets to live in the family's priceless villa, a forced auction ensues! Princess Rita, a glamorous American, has been living in her late husband, Prince Nicolò Boncompagni Ludovisi's historic family home, Villa Aurora, since they wed over a decade ago. It was the American princess who insisted that the villa, and its priceless art collection, should not be left to languish unseen, but should be restored and made available to the public on a very part time basis. According to Prince Nicolò's will, although the villa will pass to his sons, his widow has the right to live there for the rest of her life. But the sons don't agree, and now the family feud has led to a forced auction. The only catch is that the starting price is nearly half a billion dollars (perhaps because of the original Caravaggio mural in one of the rooms, not to mention the fact that the villa is located on Via Veneto with its own grounds!). Tiffany has visited Villa Aurora, and Katy used to go to church with Princess Rita (although she had no idea then who she was!). This week we talk about that magnificent place, our opinion on who has the right to it, the and our speculations on what everyday life would be life living in a veritable museum—with a Caravaggio painting over your head at any time day or night.  Hear Tiffany's description of Villa Aurora just after visiting on Bittersweet Moment #30: Villa Aurora. On Episode 218: Postcards, Katy describes seeing Princess Rita shortly after the death of her husband, although at the time of taping, she had no idea who she was. Find out how the auction went here. ------------------------------------- ADVERTISE WITH US: Reach expats, future expats, and travelers all over the world. Send us an email to get the conversation started. BECOME A PATRON: Pledge your monthly support of The Bittersweet Life and receive awesome prizes in return for your generosity! Visit our Patreon site to find out more. TIP YOUR PODCASTER: Say thanks with a one-time donation to the podcast hosts you know and love. Click here to send financial support via PayPal. (You can also find a Donate button on the desktop version of our website.) The show needs your support to continue. SUBSCRIBE: Subscribe to the podcast to make sure you never miss an episode. Click here to find us on a variety of podcast apps. WRITE A REVIEW: Leave us a rating and a written review on iTunes so more listeners can find us. JOIN THE CONVERSATION: If you have a question or a topic you want us to address, send us an email here. You can also connect to us through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Tag #thebittersweetlife with your expat story for a chance to be featured! NEW TO THE SHOW? Don't be afraid to start with Episode 1: OUTSET BOOK: Want to read Tiffany's book, Midnight in the Piazza? Learn more here or order on Amazon. TOUR ROME: If you're traveling to Rome, don't miss the chance to tour the city with Tiffany as your guide!

When Novak Djokovic landed in Melbourne, few could have imagined that his impending encounters on the tennis court would be upstaged by a legal battle, one which then prompted a row between his country and Australia. After immigration officials held the Serb player in a hotel, Djokovic's father said his son was being “crucified”. Then Serbia's Foreign Ministry claimed that the player had been deliberately lured to Australia in order to humiliate him, as part of a “political game.” Guy Delauney explains that the affair has touched a raw nerve in Serbia, with an importance way beyond the tennis court. While the war of words was going on between Serbia and Australia, the government of Cameroon was trying to keep everyone's attention focused on sport, and not on politics. The country is hosting the Africa-wide football tournament, the Africa Cup of Nations, a chance for the country to shine on the international stage. Like any contest, the Cup provides an opportunity for all countries to unite and rally behind their national team. However, there is a distinct shortage of unity among some people of this West African nation. Cameroon has suffered a long-running separatist insurgency in the English-speaking part of the country, and that was where James Copnall went to watch one of the games. You might think Ukraine was used to conflict; it suffered some of the worst casualties of the Second World War, and previously lost millions to murder and starvation, as Stalin imposed communist rule on a population which often resisted it. Today, around a hundred thousand Russian troops are massed on the Ukrainian border, and when Zeinab Badawi visited the capital Kiev, she found a very different mood to what she experienced on previous trips. What have sectarian murders in Northern Ireland got in common with the dawn of democracy in Czechoslovakia, and the start of negotiations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions? The answer is that all of them were reported on by Mary Hockaday, whose career of more than three decades at the BBC has just come to an end. Her departure has left her reflecting on time, and how the world changes with it. The housing market has been rather perky this past year, so it might be a good time to sell your home, but not if you're a princess, you don't actually want to move out, and the property in question is a Seventeenth Century palace. Such though is the fate of one of Rome's more unusual inhabitants, living in one of the city's more distinctive buildings. The Villa Aurora will go under the auctioneer's hammer next week, and is valued at more than four hundred million pounds. David Willey has been a regular visitor

Villa Aurora è stata messa all'asta per un prezzo che parte da 471 milioni di euro, al suo interno un'opera di Caravaggio che da sola ne varrebbe trecento.

In questa intervista tratta dalla diretta RVS del 6 luglio 2021, ascoltiamo il pastore Davide Romano, direttore dell'Istituto avventista Villa Aurora – che comprende la Facoltà Avventista di teologia – e responsabile del Dipartimento Affari Pubblici Libertà Religiosa dell’Unione Italiana delle Chiese Avventiste. Tra i temi affrontati: il ddl Zan arriva in aula senza accordo. La trasmissione dedicata all'attualità su RVS – condotta da Claudio Coppini e Roberto Vacca – la potete ascoltare ogni giorno dal lunedì al venerdì dalle ore 8 alle ore 10. L'articolo Sfogliando il giornale con Davide Romano (6 luglio 2021) è stato appena pubblicato su HopeMedia Italia.

In questa intervista tratta dalla diretta RVS del 6 luglio 2021, ascoltiamo il pastore Davide Romano, direttore dell'Istituto avventista Villa Aurora – che comprende la Facoltà Avventista di teologia – e responsabile del Dipartimento Affari Pubblici Libertà Religiosa dell’Unione Italiana delle Chiese Avventiste. Tra i temi affrontati: il ddl Zan arriva in aula senza accordo. La trasmissione dedicata all'attualità su RVS – condotta da Claudio Coppini e Roberto Vacca – la potete ascoltare ogni giorno dal lunedì al venerdì dalle ore 8 alle ore 10. L'articolo Sfogliando il giornale con Davide Romano (6 luglio 2021) è stato appena pubblicato su HopeMedia Italia.

In questa intervista tratta dalla diretta RVS del 6 luglio 2021, ascoltiamo il pastore Davide Romano, direttore dell'Istituto avventista Villa Aurora – che comprende la Facoltà Avventista di teologia – e responsabile del Dipartimento Affari Pubblici Libertà Religiosa dell’Unione Italiana delle Chiese Avventiste. Tra i temi affrontati: il ddl Zan arriva in aula senza accordo. La trasmissione dedicata all'attualità su RVS – condotta da Claudio Coppini e Roberto Vacca – la potete ascoltare ogni giorno dal lunedì al venerdì dalle ore 8 alle ore 10. L'articolo Sfogliando il giornale con Davide Romano (6 luglio 2021) è stato appena pubblicato su HopeMedia Italia.

Formazione e integrazione camminano insieme a Ragusa. Si è concluso il corso di alfabetizzazione per stranieri con indirizzo lavorativo. Una mostra per ricordare gli 80 anni dell’Istituto avventista Villa Aurora di Firenze. Loma Linda, in California, è stato riconosciuto come miglior ospedale pediatrico in cardiologia e chirurgia cardiaca. Il nosocomio avventista corona così una tradizione di eccellenza che dura da 60 anni. Queste notizie e altro ancora... con il Video Giornale Avventista L'articolo Video Giornale Avventista – 3 luglio 2021 è stato appena pubblicato su HopeMedia Italia.

TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City by Durs Grünbein, translated by Professor Karen Leeder. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held weekly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. The events are free to attend and open to all. About the book: Porcelain is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grünbein's hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. The book is at once a history and “declaration of love” to the famed “Venice on the Elbe,” so catastrophically razed by British bombs; a musical fusion of eyewitness accounts, family memories, and stories, of monuments and relics; the story of the city's destiny as seen through a prism of biographical enigmas, its intimate relation to the “white gold” porcelain that made its fortune and reflections on the power and limits of poetry. Published in English for the first time, this translation by Professor Karen Leeder marks the seventy-fifth year anniversary of the firebombing. Panel includes: Professor Karen Leeder is a Professor of Modern Languages at Oxford University and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. She has published widely on modern German culture and is a prize-winning translator of contemporary German literature, most recently winning the English PEN award and an American PEN/Heim award for her translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig. She was a TORCH Knowledge Exchange Fellow with the Southbank Centre from 2014-15 and she currently works with MPT, Poet in the City, and The Poetry Society on her project Mediating Modern Poetry. Durs Grünbein was born on 9 October 1962 in Dresden. He is one of the most important and internationally powerful German poets and essayists. After the opening of the Iron Curtain, he traveled through Europe, Southeast Asia, and the United States. He was a guest of the German Department of New York University and The Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Georg Büchner Prize, the Friedrich Nietzsche Prize, the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize and the Polish Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award. His books have been translated into several languages. He lives in Berlin and Rome. Edmund de Waal is an internationally acclaimed artist and writer, best known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels, often created in response to collections and archives or the history of a particular place. His interventions have been made for diverse spaces and museums worldwide, including The British Museum, London; The Frick Collection, New York; Ateneo Veneto, Venice; Schindler House, Los Angeles; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna and V&A Museum, London. De Waal is also renowned for his bestselling family memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010), and The White Road (2015). His new book, Letters to Camondo, a series of haunting letters written during lockdown was published in April 2021. He was made an OBE for his services to art in 2011 and awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction by Yale University in 2015. Born 1964 Nottingham. He lives and works in London. Professor Patrick Major is Professor of History at the University of Reading, where he is also an associate of the East German Studies Archive. His research interests are primarily the political, social and cultural history of divided Germany in the Cold War. He has published on the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall and Hollywood's depictions of 'bad Nazis' and 'good Germans', and is currently researching the bombing of Berlin in the Second World War.

TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City by Durs Grünbein, translated by Professor Karen Leeder. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held weekly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. The events are free to attend and open to all. About the book: Porcelain is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grünbein's hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. The book is at once a history and “declaration of love” to the famed “Venice on the Elbe,” so catastrophically razed by British bombs; a musical fusion of eyewitness accounts, family memories, and stories, of monuments and relics; the story of the city's destiny as seen through a prism of biographical enigmas, its intimate relation to the “white gold” porcelain that made its fortune and reflections on the power and limits of poetry. Published in English for the first time, this translation by Professor Karen Leeder marks the seventy-fifth year anniversary of the firebombing. Panel includes: Professor Karen Leeder is a Professor of Modern Languages at Oxford University and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. She has published widely on modern German culture and is a prize-winning translator of contemporary German literature, most recently winning the English PEN award and an American PEN/Heim award for her translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig. She was a TORCH Knowledge Exchange Fellow with the Southbank Centre from 2014-15 and she currently works with MPT, Poet in the City, and The Poetry Society on her project Mediating Modern Poetry. Durs Grünbein was born on 9 October 1962 in Dresden. He is one of the most important and internationally powerful German poets and essayists. After the opening of the Iron Curtain, he traveled through Europe, Southeast Asia, and the United States. He was a guest of the German Department of New York University and The Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Georg Büchner Prize, the Friedrich Nietzsche Prize, the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize and the Polish Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award. His books have been translated into several languages. He lives in Berlin and Rome. Edmund de Waal is an internationally acclaimed artist and writer, best known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels, often created in response to collections and archives or the history of a particular place. His interventions have been made for diverse spaces and museums worldwide, including The British Museum, London; The Frick Collection, New York; Ateneo Veneto, Venice; Schindler House, Los Angeles; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna and V&A Museum, London. De Waal is also renowned for his bestselling family memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010), and The White Road (2015). His new book, Letters to Camondo, a series of haunting letters written during lockdown was published in April 2021. He was made an OBE for his services to art in 2011 and awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction by Yale University in 2015. Born 1964 Nottingham. He lives and works in London. Professor Patrick Major is Professor of History at the University of Reading, where he is also an associate of the East German Studies Archive. His research interests are primarily the political, social and cultural history of divided Germany in the Cold War. He has published on the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall and Hollywood's depictions of 'bad Nazis' and 'good Germans', and is currently researching the bombing of Berlin in the Second World War.

Spot Master facoltà avventista con Davide Romano  Il pastore Davide Romano, direttore dell'Istituto avventista Villa Aurora – che comprende la Facoltà Avventista di teologia  – e responsabile del Dipartimento Libertà Religiose dell’Unione Italiana delle Chiese Avventiste illustra il nuovo Master di I livello su Libertà religiosa, libertà di coscienza, diritti e geopolitica delle religioni che sarà operativo dal prossimo mese di aprile. Il master è stato pensato per rispondere a esigenze formative professionalizzanti per il personale impiegato nella pubblica amministrazione, nel sistema educativo, nella sanità, nell’informazione, così come per i ministri di culto, gli amministratori delle varie confessioni religiose presenti in Italia ma anche per i semplici cittadini che hanno L'articolo Davide Romano – Spot Master facoltà avventista è stato appena pubblicato su HopeMedia Italia.

Spot Master facoltà avventista con Marco Ventura  Il pastore Davide Romano, direttore dell'Istituto avventista Villa Aurora – che comprende la Facoltà Avventista di teologia  – e responsabile del Dipartimento Libertà Religiose dell’Unione Italiana delle Chiese Avventiste illustra il nuovo Master di I livello su Libertà religiosa, libertà di coscienza, diritti e geopolitica delle religioni che sarà operativo dal prossimo mese di aprile. Il master è stato pensato per rispondere a esigenze formative professionalizzanti per il personale impiegato nella pubblica amministrazione, nel sistema educativo, nella sanità, nell’informazione, così come per i ministri di culto, gli amministratori delle varie confessioni religiose presenti in Italia ma anche per i semplici cittadini che hanno L'articolo Paolo Naso – Spot Master facoltà avventista è stato appena pubblicato su HopeMedia Italia.

Spot Master facoltà avventista con Marco Ventura  Il pastore Davide Romano, direttore dell'Istituto avventista Villa Aurora – che comprende la Facoltà Avventista di teologia  – e responsabile del Dipartimento Libertà Religiose dell’Unione Italiana delle Chiese Avventiste illustra il nuovo Master di I livello su Libertà religiosa, libertà di coscienza, diritti e geopolitica delle religioni che sarà operativo dal prossimo mese di aprile. Il master è stato pensato per rispondere a esigenze formative professionalizzanti per il personale impiegato nella pubblica amministrazione, nel sistema educativo, nella sanità, nell’informazione, così come per i ministri di culto, gli amministratori delle varie confessioni religiose presenti in Italia ma anche per i semplici cittadini che hanno L'articolo Marco Ventura – Spot Master facoltà avventista è stato appena pubblicato su HopeMedia Italia.

Spot Master facoltà avventista con Manlio Graziano  Il pastore Davide Romano, direttore dell'Istituto avventista Villa Aurora – che comprende la Facoltà Avventista di teologia  – e responsabile del Dipartimento Libertà Religiose dell’Unione Italiana delle Chiese Avventiste illustra il nuovo Master di I livello su Libertà religiosa, libertà di coscienza, diritti e geopolitica delle religioni che sarà operativo dal prossimo mese di aprile. Il master è stato pensato per rispondere a esigenze formative professionalizzanti per il personale impiegato nella pubblica amministrazione, nel sistema educativo, nella sanità, nell’informazione, così come per i ministri di culto, gli amministratori delle varie confessioni religiose presenti in Italia ma anche per i semplici cittadini che hanno L'articolo Manlio Graziano – Spot Master facoltà avventista è stato appena pubblicato su HopeMedia Italia.

Spot Master facoltà avventista con Alessandro Ferrari  Il pastore Davide Romano, direttore dell'Istituto avventista Villa Aurora – che comprende la Facoltà Avventista di teologia  – e responsabile del Dipartimento Libertà Religiose dell’Unione Italiana delle Chiese Avventiste illustra il nuovo Master di I livello su Libertà religiosa, libertà di coscienza, diritti e geopolitica delle religioni che sarà operativo dal prossimo mese di aprile. Il master è stato pensato per rispondere a esigenze formative professionalizzanti per il personale impiegato nella pubblica amministrazione, nel sistema educativo, nella sanità, nell’informazione, così come per i ministri di culto, gli amministratori delle varie confessioni religiose presenti in Italia ma anche per i semplici cittadini che hanno L'articolo Alessandro Ferrari – Spot Master facoltà avventista è stato appena pubblicato su HopeMedia Italia.

Spot Master facoltà avventista con Valeria Fabretti  Il pastore Davide Romano, direttore dell'Istituto avventista Villa Aurora – che comprende la Facoltà Avventista di teologia  – e responsabile del Dipartimento Libertà Religiose dell’Unione Italiana delle Chiese Avventiste illustra il nuovo Master di I livello su Libertà religiosa, libertà di coscienza, diritti e geopolitica delle religioni che sarà operativo dal prossimo mese di aprile. Il master è stato pensato per rispondere a esigenze formative professionalizzanti per il personale impiegato nella pubblica amministrazione, nel sistema educativo, nella sanità, nell’informazione, così come per i ministri di culto, gli amministratori delle varie confessioni religiose presenti in Italia ma anche per i semplici cittadini che hanno L'articolo Valeria Fabretti – Spot Master facoltà avventista è stato appena pubblicato su HopeMedia Italia.

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Als die Villa Aurora 1927 außerhalb von Los Angeles gebaut wurde, waren die Straßen dort noch nicht asphaltiert und der nächste Supermarkt eine gute Autostrecke entfernt. Ein schönes Stück Niemandsland mit traumhafter Aussicht. Das Ehepaar Feuchtwanger lebte dort in den 40er Jahren und öffnete das Haus für Künstler und Intellektuelle. Heute ist die spanische Kolonialvilla mit 14 Zimmern eine der wichtigsten deutsch-amerikanischen Künstlerresidenzen. Mehr als 400 StipendiatInnen belebten das prachtvolle Haus und wurden inspiriert von der US-amerikanischen Kultur und Landschaft, den Spuren der Exilanten und anderen KünstlerInnen, die zur gleichen Zeit in der Villa Aurora lebten und arbeiteten. In den Genuss eines solchen Stipendiums kam auch der DJ und Elektromusiker Hendrik Weber alias Pantha du Prince. Anlässlich des 25jährigen Jubiläums der Künstlerresidenz Villa Aurora sprechen wir mit Pantha du Prince über sein aktuelles Projekt Conference Of Trees, ein Eletromusikstück über die Kommunikation der Bäume.

Notizie Avventiste 122 (15/06/2020) Attualità eventi progetti e comunicazioni dal mondo Avventista. In collaborazione col dipartimento delle comunicazioni della chiesa cristiana avventista del settimo giorno. a cura di Stefano Losio e Sara Durante. Registrazione e montaggio a cura di RVS Forlì Altre notizie su news.avventisti.it. In questo numero: - Clinica avventista lancia un trattamento sperimentale per pazienti affetti da tumore nel sangue. - Chiese avventiste unite per aiutre i più deboli. - Nuovo film dei centri media avventisti. - Porte aperte a Villa Aurora. L'articolo Notizie Avventiste 122 proviene da Radio Voce della Speranza.

Notizie Avventiste 122 (15/06/2020) Attualità eventi progetti e comunicazioni dal mondo Avventista. In collaborazione col dipartimento delle comunicazioni della chiesa cristiana avventista del settimo giorno. a cura di Stefano Losio e Sara Durante. Registrazione e montaggio a cura di RVS Forlì Altre notizie su news.avventisti.it. In questo numero: - Clinica avventista lancia un trattamento sperimentale per pazienti affetti da tumore nel sangue. - Chiese avventiste unite per aiutre i più deboli. - Nuovo film dei centri media avventisti. - Porte aperte a Villa Aurora. L'articolo Notizie Avventiste 122 proviene da Radio Voce della Speranza.

Il 19 e il 20 giugno si terrà presso l’Istituto avventista di cultura biblica “Villa Aurora” la cerimonia di chiusura dell’anno accademico 2019-2020. Un anno sicuramente particolare, vista l’emergenza Covid-19, ma le attività non si sono fermate e in completa sicurezza è stato possibile proseguire con le lezioni. Il past. Davide Romano, direttore della Facoltà avventista di Teologia (FAT), ha parlato ai nostri microfoni dell’esperienza di quest’anno e ha annunciato alcune novità per quanto riguarda l’offerta formativa. All’interno del servizio, Elisa Ghiuzan, Cesare Zausa e Rafaela Thais De Araujo raccontano brevemente la loro esperienza di studenti presso la FAT. Intervista a cura di Alessia Calvagno. L'articolo Firenze. Chiusura anno accademico dell’Istituto avventista «Villa Aurora» proviene da Radio Voce della Speranza.

Wie immer gibt es am Tag vor den Oscars eine Feier in der Villa Aurora. Zum ersten Mal wird allerdings das Michael-Ballhaus-Stipendium verliehen, und zwar an die Kamerafrau Judith Kaufmann, eine der wenigen erfolgreichen Frauen im Kamerargewerbe. Sie hat schon mehrere Preise erhalten, ist in Deutschland und Europa sehr geachtet für ihre Arbeit, hat auch schon Angebote aus Hollywood bekommen, bisher aber immer abgelehnt. Das Ballhaus-Stipendium wurde vom deutschen Außenminister Heiko Maas in Zusammenarbeit mit der Deutschen Filmakademie ausgelobt.

Welcome to the Martini Minute, this is what's new in the world of luxury: The newly reopened Sofitel Rome Villa Borghese is offering a Valentine's Day experience for $22,147. The exclusive package includes a five-night stay in the Venus or Cupid Suite complete with an extravagant floral display and a candlelit bath for two in Roman Donkey Milk. There will be a private tour of the Villa Aurora and a helicopter tour to one of Rome's countryside vineyards for a private tasting and picnic.

A glorious Guercino ceiling fresco, Caravaggio's only wall painting, a maybe-Michelangelo, an oasis off Via Veneto, and a real live American princess! In this week's mini-episode, Tiffany takes listeners on a visit to one of the most unknown troves of art in the entire city, Villa Aurora. This glorious yet unassuming private home is all that's left of Villa Ludovisi, a garden that Stendhal and Henry James considered to be the most beautiful place in Rome. Find out how to visit here. ---------------------------------------- ADVERTISE WITH US: Reach expats, future expats, and travelers all over the world. Send us an email to get the conversation started. BECOME A PATRON: Pledge your monthly support of The Bittersweet Life and receive awesome prizes in return for your generosity! Visit our Patreon site to find out more. DONATE: Prefer a one-time donation? Click here to send financial support via PayPal. (You can also find a Donate button on the desktop version of our website.) The show needs your support to continue.  JOIN THE CONVERSATION: If you have a question or a topic you want us to address, send us an email here. You can also connect to us through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Tag #thebittersweetlife with your expat story for a chance to be featured! NEW TO THE SHOW? Don't be afraid to start with Episode 1: OUTSET SUBSCRIBE: Subscribe to the podcast to make sure you never miss an episode. Click here to find us on a variety of podcast apps. WRITE A REVIEW: Leave us a rating and a written review on iTunes so more listeners can find us. BOOK: Want to read Tiffany's book, Midnight in the Piazza? Learn more here or order on Amazon. TOUR ROME: If you're traveling to Rome, don't miss the chance to tour the city with Tiffany as your guide! 

I had the pleasure of sitting with Cyrill Lachauer in his Berlin, Germany studio and discuss; artists being pigeon holed and the art world wanting to fit us into boxes, the cultural difference in pride or embarrassment of side jobs, general cultural differences, the commercialisation of art, selling out, our artistic evolution, the role/job of a curator, building and maintaining relationships, commercial vs institutional artists, funding your art project, creating editions of your art, the pressure of the need to make money, art collectors, the need to learn to not complain, and the fact that you can never look needy, Luck, grant writing, honesty in grant writing, gentrification, surfing, Artist collectives, The good old days that never were all that good. http://cyrilllachauer.net   About Cyrill Lachauer studied directing, ethnology and art in Munich and Berlin. He completed his studies at Berlin's University of the Arts in 2010. In 2011, he founded the artists' label Flipping the Coin, which he runs together with three colleagues. Distinctions include the 3sat Young Talent Award at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 2008, the IBB Photography Award in 2010, a Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung fellowship in 2014, and a Villa Aurora grant in Los Angeles in 2015. Cyrill Lachauer (b. 1979 in Rosenheim, lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles) develops his extensive projects on long journeys, and delves deeply into the local cultures of the places he visits. For the exhibition by the Sammlung Goetz in the former air-raid shelter of Haus der Kunst, Lachauer has created a new multi-part installation, which includes films, videos, photographs and texts, as a dystopian development to the utopian spaces depicted in his last film “Dodging Raindrops – A Separate Reality.” The artist deals with the idea of land in various forms. Land can signify home and provide roots, or refer to a nourishing piece of earth. It can also, however, lead to inclusion or exclusion when it represents the idea of nationhood. Land can be owned or lived with. It can be taken away, destroyed, and made inaccessible to others. Please be sure to visit our Patreon page and help support the podcast by being part of the conversation. The more money raised, the larger the global reach we can offer you: https://www.patreon.com/thewisefool For more information about the host, Matthew Dols http://www.matthewdols.com   Transcript available: https://wisefoolpod.com/transcript-for-episode-21-photographer-installation-artist-cyrill-lachauer-berlin-germany/

I had the pleasure of sitting with Cyrill Lachauer in his Berlin, Germany studio and discuss; artists being pigeon holed and the art world wanting to fit us into boxes, the cultural difference in pride or embarrassment of side jobs, general cultural differences, the commercialisation of art, selling out, our artistic evolution, the role/job of a curator, building and maintaining relationships, commercial vs institutional artists, funding your art project, creating editions of your art, the pressure of the need to make money, art collectors, the need to learn to not complain, and the fact that you can never look needy, Luck, grant writing, honesty in grant writing, gentrification, surfing, Artist collectives, The good old days that never were all that good. http://cyrilllachauer.net   About Cyrill Lachauer studied directing, ethnology and art in Munich and Berlin. He completed his studies at Berlin's University of the Arts in 2010. In 2011, he founded the artists' label Flipping the Coin, which he runs together with three colleagues. Distinctions include the 3sat Young Talent Award at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 2008, the IBB Photography Award in 2010, a Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung fellowship in 2014, and a Villa Aurora grant in Los Angeles in 2015. Cyrill Lachauer (b. 1979 in Rosenheim, lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles) develops his extensive projects on long journeys, and delves deeply into the local cultures of the places he visits. For the exhibition by the Sammlung Goetz in the former air-raid shelter of Haus der Kunst, Lachauer has created a new multi-part installation, which includes films, videos, photographs and texts, as a dystopian development to the utopian spaces depicted in his last film “Dodging Raindrops – A Separate Reality.” The artist deals with the idea of land in various forms. Land can signify home and provide roots, or refer to a nourishing piece of earth. It can also, however, lead to inclusion or exclusion when it represents the idea of nationhood. Land can be owned or lived with. It can be taken away, destroyed, and made inaccessible to others. Please be sure to visit our Patreon page and help support the podcast by being part of the conversation. The more money raised, the larger the global reach we can offer you: https://www.patreon.com/thewisefool For more information about the host, Matthew Dols http://www.matthewdols.com

During the Nazi regime, many German artists, scientists, and other intellectuals found refuge in Southern California. The authors Lion Feuchtwanger and Thomas Mann were two of the most prominent "exiles in paradise." Producer Kerstin Zilm takes us on a trip to their former homes in Los Angeles – the Villa Aurora and the Thomas House – both of which have been rededicated to transatlantic dialogue.

Concert: Organ Recital: Iveta Apkalna Upbeat Live provides historical and cultural context for many concerts, featuring engaging speakers, audio examples, and special guests. These events are free to ticket holders and are held in BP Hall, on the second floor, accessible after your ticket is scanned. For more information: laphil.com/upbeatlive About the Speaker: Born in Mannheim, Germany, Christoph Bull has performed and recorded around the world, including France, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Northern Ireland, Russia, India, Taiwan and El Salvador, at national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists and at venues such as Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Lincoln Center in New York City, Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, the Cathedrals of Moscow, Saint-Denis and Salzburg as well as rock clubs like The Viper Room, The Roxy and The Whisky in Los Angeles. He's collaborated with leading orchestras, conductors, choirs and ensembles including the Los Angeles Master Chorale, James Conlon, Carl St.Clair, Pacific Chorale, Pacific Symphony and Grammy-winning Southwest Chamber Music. He improvised his first melodies on the piano at the age of five and gave his first organ recitals and rock concerts with a band at the age of twelve. Following his graduation at Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim and organ studies at University of Church Music in Heidelberg and Musikhochschule Freiburg, he earned degrees at Berklee College of Music, University of Southern California and American Conservatory of Music on multiple scholarships. His organ teachers were Cherry Rhodes, Hermann Schäffer, Ludwig Dörr, Samuel Swartz, Christoph Schöner and Paul Jordan. He won prizes in numerous organ and composition competitions, including “Jugend musiziert”, Michael Masser Competition, Berklee College of Music Songwriting Competition and International Organ Competition Marcello Galanti. Christoph Bull is the creator of the genre-crossing, collaborative multi-media series organica, combining traditional and contemporary music. His collaborators include DJs, video artists, live painter, instrumentalists and singers. He has also contributed to projects by Steven Spielberg, Robin Williams, Harry Connick Jr., George Clinton and Bootsy Collins (Parliament Funkadelic), Cindy Lauper, Lili Haydn and Nishat Khan and opened the organ series at Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa and Villa Aurora in the Pacific Palisades. He's received several awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for creative and innovative concert programs and has released a number of CDs, including License To Chill, Old School, organica 2001, organica 2, and organica 3. His musical Treasure Island, a collaboration with lyricist Tim Mathews, was premiered in both the U.S. and Germany. His solo album First & Grand, the world premiere recording of the Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ, was celebrated by the international trade press and showcases the stylistic versatility and expressiveness of his playing. His original song “Peace” was featured on the benefit album 2 Unite All together with songs by Peter Gabriel, Stewart Copeland and others. His music has been broadcast on TV and radio, including on NPR's flagship station in Southern California, KCRW, on Classical KUSC and the Minnesota Public Radio program “Pipedreams”. Christoph Bull is based in Los Angeles. In addition to his activities as a concert organist, composer, singer-songwriter, speaker, university organist and organ professor at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he is organist-in-residence at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, playing the largest church pipe organ in the world.

Concert: Organ Recital: Felix Hell Upbeat Live provides historical and cultural context for many concerts, featuring engaging speakers, audio examples, and special guests. These events are free to ticket holders and are held in BP Hall, on the second floor, accessible after your ticket is scanned. For more information: laphil.com/upbeatlive About the Speaker: Born in Mannheim, Germany, Christoph Bull has performed and recorded around the world, including France, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Northern Ireland, Russia, India, Taiwan and El Salvador, at national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists and at venues such as Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Lincoln Center in New York City, Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, the Cathedrals of Moscow, Saint-Denis and Salzburg as well as rock clubs like The Viper Room, The Roxy and The Whisky in Los Angeles. He's collaborated with leading orchestras, conductors, choirs and ensembles including the Los Angeles Master Chorale, James Conlon, Carl St.Clair, Pacific Chorale, Pacific Symphony and Grammy-winning Southwest Chamber Music. He improvised his first melodies on the piano at the age of five and gave his first organ recitals and rock concerts with a band at the age of twelve. Following his graduation at Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim and organ studies at University of Church Music in Heidelberg and Musikhochschule Freiburg, he earned degrees at Berklee College of Music, University of Southern California and American Conservatory of Music on multiple scholarships. His organ teachers were Cherry Rhodes, Hermann Schäffer, Ludwig Dörr, Samuel Swartz, Christoph Schöner and Paul Jordan. He won prizes in numerous organ and composition competitions, including “Jugend musiziert”, Michael Masser Competition, Berklee College of Music Songwriting Competition and International Organ Competition Marcello Galanti. Christoph Bull is the creator of the genre-crossing, collaborative multi-media series organica, combining traditional and contemporary music. His collaborators include DJs, video artists, live painter, instrumentalists and singers. He has also contributed to projects by Steven Spielberg, Robin Williams, Harry Connick Jr., George Clinton and Bootsy Collins (Parliament Funkadelic), Cindy Lauper, Lili Haydn and Nishat Khan and opened the organ series at Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa and Villa Aurora in the Pacific Palisades. He's received several awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for creative and innovative concert programs and has released a number of CDs, including License To Chill, Old School, organica 2001, organica 2, and organica 3. His musical Treasure Island, a collaboration with lyricist Tim Mathews, was premiered in both the U.S. and Germany. His solo album First & Grand, the world premiere recording of the Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ, was celebrated by the international trade press and showcases the stylistic versatility and expressiveness of his playing. His original song “Peace” was featured on the benefit album 2 Unite All together with songs by Peter Gabriel, Stewart Copeland and others. His music has been broadcast on TV and radio, including on NPR's flagship station in Southern California, KCRW, on Classical KUSC and the Minnesota Public Radio program “Pipedreams”. Christoph Bull is based in Los Angeles. In addition to his activities as a concert organist, composer, singer-songwriter, speaker, university organist and organ professor at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he is organist-in-residence at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, playing the largest church pipe organ in the world.

The Psycho Records (Wallflower Press) Skylight Books and Villa Aurora are proud to present Laurence A. Rickels, reading from his newest book The Psycho Records. The Psycho Records follows the influence of the primal shower scene within subsequent slasher and splatter films. American soldiers returning from World War II were called “psychos” if they exhibited mental illness. Robert Bloch and Alfred Hitchcock turned the term into a catch-all phrase for a range of psychotic and psychopathic symptoms or dispositions. They transferred a war disorder to the American heartland. Drawing on his experience with German film, Hitchcock packed inside his shower stall the essence of schauer, the German cognate meaning “horror.” Later serial horror film production has post-traumatically flashed back to Hitchcock’s shower scene. In the end, though, this book argues the effect is therapeutically finite. This extensive case study summons the genealogical readings of philosopher and psychoanalyst Laurence Rickels. The book opens not with another reading of Hitchcock’s 1960 film but with an evaluation of various updates to vampirism over the years. It concludes with a close look at the rise of demonic and infernal tendencies in horror movies since the 1990s and the problem of the psycho as our most uncanny double in close quarters. Laurence A. Rickels is professor in art and theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe. He is the author of Aberrations of Mourning (1988), The Case of California (2001), Nazi Psychoanalysis (2002), The Vampire Lectures (1999), The Devil Notebooks (2008), Ulrike Ottinger: The Autobiography of Art Cinema (2008), I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick (2010), and Germany: A Science Fiction (2015).

Inspiriert von dem Foto Black Sun, das der amerikanische Fotograf Minor White vor einem halben Jahrhundert machte, der dabei die Technik der Solarisation anwandte und die Sonne so extrem überbelichtete, dass sie auf dem Bild schwarz erschien, schuf Schink eine Bilderfolge, bei der er die Belichtung auf eine Stunde ausdehnte. Vor dem Hintergrund von Landschaften aus unterschiedlichen Gegenden der Welt erscheint die einstündige Sonnenbahn als ein unrealistisch und fremdartig wirkender dunkler Streifen in einem – bedingt durch Jahreszeit und Breitengrad – entsprechend veränderten Neigungswinkel, wobei das Gegenlicht die Unwirklichkeit der Bilder noch verstärkt. Den Künstler interessiert die Beziehung von Bewegungslosigkeit und Veränderung beziehungsweise die Wirkung der auf diese Weise „angehaltenen Zeit“. Biografie: Hans-Christian Schink studierte von 1986 bis 1991 Fotografie an der Leipziger Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst bei Joachim Jansong. Von 1991 bis 1993 war er in Leipzig Meisterschüler an der Hochschule. In den folgenden Jahren bekam er mehrere Arbeitsstipendien, unter anderem 1997 von der Stiftung Kulturfonds für das Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf und 2013 ein Projektstipendium der Stiftung Kunstfonds. 2002 „artist in residence“ im Künstlerhaus Villa Aurora, Los Angeles 2012 Stipendiat der Villa Kamogawa, Kyoto 2014 Stipendiat der Deutschen Akademie Villa Massimo, Rom Er erhielt mehrere Preise, so zum Beispiel 2004 den Deutschen Fotobuchpreis in der Kategorie Fotobildbände für sein Buch „Verkehrsprojekte“ und 2008 den internationalen REAL Photography Award für seine Serie „1h“. Hans-Christian Schink lebt in Berlin.

Join us for a very special event as tonight's co-sponsor, Villa Aurora, presents their writer-in residence, Jan Brandt. A village on the furthest outskirts of northwest Lower Saxony, only a few kilometres from the Dutch border: Cows are grazing on the meadows, farmers are tilling their fields, every once in a while the din of a low-lying aircraft disturbs the tranquility. Flowers are blossoming behind the trimmed cedar hedges, shiny, freshly waxed new cars stand in the driveways. This is the world into which Daniel Kuper was born in the mid 1970s, a lanky, withdrawn boy with much too much imagination and much too little opportunity to live out only a fraction of it. Strange things soon start taking place and Kuper is held responsible. The more he tries to rebut the accusations, the deeper he gets enmeshed in them. Kuper takes up the fight against the village, its inhabitants, its traditions, its narrowness and its closeness. They are ones Kuper rebels against and they are the ones he loses out to in the end. Jan Brandt, born in Leer (Eastern Frisia) in 1974, studied history and literature in Cologne, London and Berlin and graduated from the German Journalism School in Munich. Amongst others his short stories have been published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He was awarded numerous fellowships and residences such as to Ledig House and Yaddo in New York. Brandt's first novel Against The World was a finalist for the 2011 German Book Award and won the Nicolas-Born-First-Novel-Award. It's going to be published in English by Seagull Books in 2015. His second novel deals Germans who emigrated to America. 

Join us this week as we talk with Mona Leirich at the Villa Aurora, about the far reaching legacy of the literary lion Lion Feuchtwanger,Continue Reading

Die vielen Leben der Paula Fox (The Many Lives of Paula Fox) Villa Aurora presents German author Bernadette Conrad, who is in Los Angeles for her followship with the Villa, for an event discussing and signing her biography of American author Paula Fox. NOTE: The reading and signing will be in English, but the book is only available in German.  Skylight will have some copies of the German edition available for sale. Born in 1963, Bernadette Conrad studied German Philology, Romance Languages and Social Pedagogy, and pursued a career as a social worker with a focus on addiction therapy. Today, she is a freelance writer and journalist, whose publications are regularly featured in DIE ZEIT and Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Bernadette Conrad is the recipient of various grants and awards such as the 2010 Walliser Medienpreis and the 2012 Literary Fellowship of the State of Baden-Wurttemberg. Her publications include “Nomaden im Herzen” (Nomads at Heart, 2006), a collection of literary reports, and the biography “Die vielen Leben der Paula Fox” (The Many Lives of Paula Fox), published in 2011 to rave reviews. During her residency at Villa Aurora, Conrad will do extensive research for her new book, a work of fiction again examining the topic of nomadic existence. Set in Los Angeles and other parts of the U.S., it tells the story of a father who emigrates to the U.S. in the 1950s, but returns after discovering that all the demons he had hoped to leave behind are still with him. It is also the story of his daughter who feels compelled to follow her father's dream, and travels to New England but ultimately realizes that she has to follow her own path. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS FEBRUARY 10, 2013.

Götter und Schriften rund ums Mittelmeer. Symposion in memoriam Friedrich Kittler | Symposium Fr, 19.10.2012 – Sa, 20.10.2012, ZKM_Medientheater „There's someone in my head, but it's not me. Nur Atavismen wie das Urheberrecht, das ja nicht umsonst aus der Goethezeit stammt, zwingen noch zur Namensnennung von Textern und Komponisten (als ob es dergleichen im Soundraum gäbe). Viel eher wären die Schaltpläne der Anlagen und […] die Typennummern der eingesetzten Synthesizer aufzuführen.“ (Friedrich A. Kittler, 1975) In den frühen 1980er Jahren baute Friedrich A. Kittler einen modularen Synthesizer in 5 Makro-Modulen/Gehäusen. Fünf Kuben aus gebürstetem Aluminium – heute golden nikotinbrüniert – in smartem, minimalistischem Post-Braun-Design sieht man auf einem Portraitfoto hinter Kittler in seinem Regalsystem von Dieter Rams stehen. Daneben findet man Bücher und die weißen Elementen der Atelier-Anlage von Braun (auch unter Mitwirken von Dieter Rams entworfen) sowie einen elektrostatischen Kopfhörer der japanischen Marke Stax. Seit Kittlers Tod am 18. Oktober 2011 verbleibt der Synthesizer zusammen mit seinen Aufzeichnungen und Datenträgern als Teil seines Nachlasses am Deutschen Literaturarchiv in Marbach. apparatus operandi ist ein konzeptuelles Kunstprojekt von Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag aus Setzungen verschiedener Formate. Im Zentrum des ersten Teiles steht die Anatomie des Synthesizers Friedrich A. Kittlers. Das Projekt stellt die wahrnehmungsgenerative Potenz von Apparaten in Frage und argumentiert in allen Formaten archäologisch, historisch und sinnlich; Hardware nah am Prozess, am Werden orientiert, reformuliert es eine Absage an überkommene Substanzbegriffe. apparatus operandi1::anatomie// Der Synthesizer des Friedrich A. Kittler ist als Entwurf ein Vorwurf an veraltete Institutionen, die uns in einer Art von Trägheit immer noch dienen. Dem bei der Anatomie eröffneten Gefüge - Epistemologie von Schaltungen, Kittlerphilologie, Gedächtnispraxis - sinnt Sebastian Döring nach. Sebastian Döring, geboren 1977, konzeptioniert und veranstaltet seit 2005 fröhliche Wissenschaft im Medientheater, ergründet Wissenskonfigurationen und betreibt Medienarchäologie und -epistemologie; seit 2009 am Medienarchäologischen Fundus der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind die Archäologie des neuzeitlichen Subjekts, die Mediengeschichte gesetzten Rechts  und die Analyse epistemischer Dinge. http://www.medientheater.org/ Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag, geboren 1965, ist Künstler, Komponist und Forscher. Er studierte Bildende Kunst, Kunstgeschichte, Musikwissenschaft, Komposition, Philosophie und Kognitionswissenschaften bei Rudolf zur Lippe, Ivan Illich, Umberto Maturana & Gustavo Becerra Schmidt. Workshops absolvierte er u. A. bei Albert Mangelsdorf, John Cage & Alvin Lussier; er war Assistent bei Mauricio Kagel und gründete 2002 N-solab. Sonntag erhielt zahlreiche Stipendien und Preise (Akademie Schloss Solitude, Berliner- & Deutscher Klangkunstpreis, Cynet Art Award, Haupstadtkulturfond für e-topia, emare-Mexiko und für 2012 Villa-Aurora, Los Angeles & Chambre Blanche in Quebec). Er stellte auf vielen renommierten Festivals und Institutionen aus, u.a. V2, Rotterdam; NIMK, Amsterdam; Making Waves Festival, San Francisco; Apex Art & The Kitchen, New York; Fundación Arte Y Tecnología, Madrid; Centre de Cultura Contemporània & METRONOM, Barcelona; Nacional Gallery Poznan; Academy of Arts, transmediale & Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; Mediabiennale, Seoul Museum of Art, & Aram Art Gallery, Seoul; Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon; Center for Contemporary Art, Torun; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, kampnagel, Galerie der Gegenwart & Kunstverein, Hamburg; Museum Centro Galego del Arte Contemporénea, Santiago de Compostela; ars electronica, Linz; CYBERFEST, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; HMKV, Dortmund; WKV & Staatsgallerie, Stuttgart; Skanu Mezs & RIXC, Arthall, Riga; Tent, London; 3rd Art and Science International Exhibition & Symposium, Beijing. sonntag3000@sonarc-ion.de In seinem Lebenswerk hat Medientheoretiker Friedrich Kittler (1943−2011), die Geschichte der Dichtung, der Philosophie, ja der Kultur als solche vom Kopf auf die Füße ihrer technischen und vortechnischen Medien gestellt. Was Aufschreibesysteme für die Literatur, was Befehlssätze für programmierbare Maschinen, das ist den Göttern das elementarste Medium im lateinischen Wortsinn von elementa: Buchstaben. Das Symposion »Götter und Schriften rund ums Mittelmeer«, noch zu Lebzeiten von dem deutschen Medientheoretiker Friedrich Kittler selbst vorbereitet, widmet sich dieser Hypothese. Wie bestimmen die Kontakte, Konkurrenzen, Innovationen der verschiedenen Schriften und Alphabete seit der frühesten Antike rund ums Mittelmeer die zukünftigen Geschicke des Abendlands?

Invitation to the Bold of Heart (Seagull Books) Skylight Books and Villa Aurora are thrilled to present young Swiss author Dorothee Elmiger, reading from her translated literary collection Invitation to the Bold of Heart. Dorothee Elmiger, born 1985 in Wetzikon, Switzerland, grew up in Appenzell. She studied at the Swiss Institute of Literature in Biel and spent one semester at the German Institute of Literature in Leipzig. She has been living in Berlin and Switzerland since 2009, studying political science. Dorothee Elmiger was awarded the Kelag Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Festival 2010 for her first novel Einladung an die Waghalsigen, as well as the Aspekte Literature Prize 2010 for the best German debut prose and the Rauriser Literaturpreis 2011. During her stay at Villa Aurora, she will be working on a novel concerned with the concept and fabrication of biography, searching for ways of (re-) writing seemingly lost biographies. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS MAY 20, 2012.

Kippenberger: The Artist and His Families (J&L Books) Kippenberger. Der Künstler und seine Familien (Berlin Verlag) Skylight Books and Villa Aurora present Susanne Kippenberger, discussing her biography of her late brother, the artist Martin Kippenberger. The event will feature film clips, images, and audio from Martin's career, and should not be missed! Susanne's book will become available in English in December, but we didn't want to miss the chance to have this fascinating presentation in our store while the author is in the country.  We're hoping to have copies of the German edition of her book available for sale, and will take preorders of the English edition. Over the course of his 20-year career, Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) cast himself alternately as hard-drinking carouser and confrontational art-world jester, thrusting these personae to the forefront of his prodigious creativity. He was also very much a player in the international art world of the 1970s right up until his death in 1997, commissioning work from artists such as Jeff Koons and Mike Kelley, and acting as unofficial ringleader to a generation of German artists. Written by the artist's sister, Susanne Kippenberger, this first English-language biography draws both from personal memories of their shared childhood and exhaustive interviews with Kippenberger's extended family of friends and colleagues in the art world. Kippenberger gives insight into the psychology and drive behind this playful and provocative artist. Susanne Kippenberger, editor at Tagesspiegel Berlin and author of Kippenberger: Der Künstler und seine Familien and Am Tisch, is an accomplished journalist who has been awarded a number of prestigious journalistic awards.  She studied German, English, and American literature in Tübingen and at the Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and film at NYU. She is currently working on a biography of Jessica Mitford, daughter of the 2nd Baron Redesdale, who, unlike the rest of her family, developed left-wing political opinions, became involved in the struggle against the British Union of Fascists and moved to the United States in 1939 where she joined the American Communist Party and was active in the Civil Rights movement. Kippenberger is currently a writer in residence at Villa Aurora in  Pacific Palisades. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS SEPTEMBER 24,2011.

Axolotl Roadkill The Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and Skylight Books present German writer Helene Hegemann, discussing her book Axolotl Roadkill. We'll also be screening a scene from Hegemann's film Torpedo. Refreshments will be provided by the Goethe-Institut. Helene Hegemann was born in February of 1992 in Freiburg and is considered to be a German wunderkind. She grew up with her divorced mother until age 13, and after her death moved to Berlin to be with her father. It was during that time that she started writing. In 2007, Helene's drama Ariel 15 premiered in Berlin and was later turned into a radio play. Her screenplay Torpedo was turned into a movie in 2008. Hegemann directed it herself and won the Max-Orphühls-Prize. In 2010 her first novel Axolotl Roadkill was published in Germany and instantly received a lot of  praise by literary critics. But Hegemann was faced with accusations of plagiarism and eventually admitted to have copied some passages of her book from an online log. Her confession sparked a controversy about the issue of intertextuality and copyrights. Nevertheless, Axolotl Roadkill has been translated into 15 languages and made into a drama that had its premiere in November of 2010 in Hamburg. Hegemann is the artist-in-residence at the Villa Aurora. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS JUNE 15, 2011

This program includes readings and discussion among writers in exile from their native countries. Majid Naficy, an Iranian poet who fled Khomeini's regime at great risk, has lived in Los Angeles since 1985. He has published three collections of poems and holds a doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from UCLA. Chinese novelist Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labor collective, where talent scouts discovered her and recruited her to work as a movie actress at the Shanghai Film Studio. Her memoir Red Azalea, about life during the Cultural Revolution, was an international bestseller. SAID, born in Tehran in 1947, was forced to leave Iran at age seventeen, and has lived in exile in Munich, Germany since 1964. His publications include Poems of Love, Then I Will Scream Until Silence, and his most recent work, The Long Arm of the Mullahs: Notes from My Exile.This program was co-presented with Villa Aurora and produced in conjunction with the exhibition "Exiles and Emigres: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler" at LACMA.