Haru Kuroki wins best actress award at Berlin film festival

Japanese actress Haru Kuroki won the Silver Bear for best actress at the 64th Berlin International Festival on Saturday for her part in director Yoji Yamada’s “The Little House.” “I never thought I’d be able to appear on this stage,” Kuroki said at the award ceremony. “I owe director Yamada, who made the great movie.” […]

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How Hitoshi Yamauchi deals with evil

Here is an amazing story about a Japanese mathematician who was assaulted in a vicious racist attack in a subway station in central West Berlin. He went back to the scene of the crime and placed a poster with a job offer to the attacker. The job is intended to teach the assailant humanity and […]

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Jazz-Avantgarde-Duo „EVERGREEN“

AKI TAKASE (piano) RUDI MAHALL (bassclarinet) Geseko von Lüpke schrieb in der SZ über dieses Power-Duo: “…doch wo perfekte Technik und instrumentale Beherrschung im reinen Selbstausdruck nebensächlich wurden, spielen auch Stile und Stücke keine Rolle mehr. Auf der Bühne standen schlicht Persönlichkeiten.“ Dienstag, 17. Dezember 2013 21-23 Uhr. [Source]

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Mitsuko Uchida @ Kammermusiksaal

We have known at least since her residency with the Berliner Philharmoniker in the 2008/09 season just what a sensitive chamber music musician Mitsuko Uchida is. At that time, she performed together with members of the orchestra as well as with students from the Orchestra Academy. In her chamber concert this year, she performs with […]

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Koboku Senju @ Ausland in Prenzlauer Berg

Koboku Senju, meaning something like «Selection of Dead Trees», is a continuation of the music developed on the album with the same name, Varianter av døde trær, released on SOFA in 2008. Since then, the ensemble has performed numerous concerts in Japan and Europe, finding a particular way of making music together. Their new release […]

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Emi Hariyama performing in Berliner Philharmonie

The night of 21 June is the shortest of the year – an event that was celebrated in pre-Christian times with midsummer bonfires and all manner of rituals, especially in the Celtic, Germanic and Slavic cultures. The purpose was currying favour with the gods on behalf of the annually recurring cycle of sowing, growth and […]

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Shoko Nakamura from Staatsballett Berlin in Caravaggio

Caravaggio, born Michelangelo Merisi, has entered history due to his paintings of dramatic intensity. Caravaggio used to venture the threshold beyond the pale throughout his life. He was seen for admiration of his work and harsh opposition towards his extraordinary realism in painting human beings. Due to his passionate personality, he encountered more than several […]

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Seiji Morimoto performance at Emitter Micro Festival

Seiji Morimoto was born in Tokyo 1971, studied musicology at the Kunitachi College of Music, graduating in 1996. During this period he began to play the electronic pieces by John Cage and his own sound performances. Since then he has been creating sound performances, installations and videos. In 2003 Morimoto moved to Berlin, has performed […]

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