eMAG 19 - Be Creative! by eMAG magazine

Dear Reader, You know this phrase written across the front cover of new eMAG issue. It’s what teachers told us to be in school and everybody hearing it got the chills. ‘Be creative!’ – an expression so vague and variant. However, our team has put out its feelers to gather different ways of being creative and is going to show you that creativity is more than bright colors and a lot of brainIn order to prove this we’ll take you from Florida to China, from Kitzbühl to Cologne, to every imaginable part of Augsburg and back to California. On our trip we experience that experimenting with food is “A matter of taste”, we’ll have a look at the Food and Wine Festival in “Disney World”, visit the sparrow and the bee at their home “Space2b” and get to know “Die Bunten”. We’ll learn that a “Flower on concrete” is more than just a ruined façade or that “Creativity under pressure” can be a blessing and curse at the same time. On our excursion we explore “The lost art of writing letters”, “The story behind the stories” of ‘Die Augsburger Puppenkiste’ 19 helps out with a ‘Dressing up for Dummies’ guide. While some enjoy funky dresses, others

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it support organization last October. Daniel TrĂśster, Augsburg University student and second chairperson of Die Bunten, told us about the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals and projects.

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Author: Susanne Steinacher Layout: Felicitas Schilling Pictures: Alexander Fiedler

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Of course, all Bavarians believe they‘re number one when it comes to celebrating, but there‘s also another world beyond the Oktoberfest! No, we don’t mean Fasching – we‘re talking about Karneval! For people like us who grew up in North-Rhine-Westphalia it’s sometimes hard to understand that no one seems to appreciate how fantastic the festivity we call

give you a survival guide for behaving approof a Karneval party and don’t know what to do.

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Authors: Max Becker / Alina Ludwig Layout: Alina Ludwig Pictures: Alina Ludwig Lena Hoffstadt Felix Flosbach Thomas Siepmann / PIXELIO Sabine Harazim / PIXELIO Harald Wanetschka / PIXELIO

What do you usually do with your used and empty milk cartons? Of course, you throw them into the garbage. But not this time! In this article you will learn how multi-faceted trash can be! Need a new wallet? No idea what this has to do with recycling milk cartons? Well, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll So take your milk carton and try it yourself!

Step 1: Take your used milk carton out of the trash!

Step 2: Scissors in action

Step 3: Folding your wallet

Step 5: That’s it!

Authors: Hanna Boßmann and Stefanie Dintner Layout: Felicitas Schilling Pictures: Hanna Boßmann, Stefanie Dintner and Judith Lisser-Meister / PIXELIO

The lost art of writing letters Dear friends, fans and readers,

A couple of days ago, I came across some old letters. I felt a mixture of nervousness and excitement. I immediately knew that these letters were extremely important to me, yet I couldn’t place exactly why. In order to understand what made them so special I began opening me giggle. By reading the letter I understood that she was someone with whom I could’ve shared all my teen secrets. She wouldn’t have blamed me for anything or have gossiped to my friends. The next letter I opened was written by my brother while I was abroad in the US. He put a lot of effort into designing the paper – he used illumination, like in the beginning of rare old books, a huge letter ornately designed to begin the letter proper. There are decorative lines all over the page. I felt really special reading it, because I knew he had spent a fair amount of time doing this just for me and nobody else. During that same time my grandmother started writing letters to me as well, trying to cheer me up during bouts of homesickness. To make me smile she added funny stickers. Unfortunately, she has since passed on and in those moments when her absence becomes this spot of emptiness, other than a few pictures, I only have her letters to make me smile and feel close to her again. Staring down at my letters, touched by their contents and the way they made me feel, I started wondering why people nowadays don’t write letters anymore. The only explanation I could come up with was that there must be shift in lifestyle. We all know that nowadays everybody is in a rush, regardless of whether it is our jobs or our studies. It seems like people are competing wherever you look. It’s no However, the things we write in a text message or an email aren’t as personal as they are a letter. They’re nice that day, but are typed up too quickly to have any lasting impact. Someone who writes a letter every now and then knows how much affection and love is put into what is written down. On top of that, letters are much more than their contents; their displays of affection and consoling words. Just the simple fact that much this person values the recipient. The words captured on paper are not going to be destroyed by a virus, a data crash or a cramped mailbox. This way there will always be an authentic memory of someone important – as is the case with my grandmother’s letters. Soon it’ll be Valentine’s Day again. Make a special present for your dearest – give them some of your precious time. In this way you prove to them how important they are in your life. Give them a little piece of you that they can carry with them wherever they go.

Author: Isabel Rackow Layout: Isabel Rackow

Pictures: Isabel Rackow; Rainer Sturm / PIXELIO 14

It‘s 3 pm on a Thursday afternoon, and for half an hour now, I‘ve been sitting in front of an empty, white page. By midnight, this menacingly blank sheet of paper needs to transmute into an elegantly written 900-word article, which I will have to send in not later than 12 pm (if I don‘t want to be killed by our editor, at least...). I‘m feeling tense, nervous and fairly stressed. This is where my – possibly a little unreasonable – experiment starts: How to be creative under pressure.

4 pm: NOW!!

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5.30 pm: Perfectionism kills creativity

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11 pm: Every human being is creative

Author: Nicola Kossakowski Layout: Andrea Reichart Pictures: Claudia GeĂ&#x;ner

What comes to mind when I think of great performances? Well, when I was a child I was always the one dancing in the wrong direction on stage during a dancing performance. Without a doubt, fairly embarrassing. Probably this is why I gave up on my career as a performer ;-) Nevertheless, when it comes to creativity, there are numerous ways it can be expressed. Campuskunst is exactly what you want and need if you think YOU are creative and your talent – whatever that may be – can’t be hidden from the rest of the world. Certainly, you can also be part of an amazing audience who supports those imaginative people (just like I was)!

Bringing together

Let the show begin!

Author: Felicitas Schilling Layout: Felicitas Schilling Pictures: Kristin Ruckschnat and Gerd Altmann / PIXELIO

One of the bands playing great music.

Lane Ziegler reading her shortstory.

Georg Stasch peforming onstage. What is Campuskunst?

One of the audienceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favourite: Verena Reger.

Keep It Local

Everyone knows them: Jim Button, Urmel from the Ice Age, Robber Hotzenplotz… but nowadays, the marionettes from the Augsburger Puppenkiste have disappeared from the TV screen. What a loss for today’s children! “Too cial argument. But the media can be mistaken. There are still many kids and also grown-ups who are excited by the lovingly-staged fairy tales. But who’s actually pulling the strings behind the scenes?

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Authors: Daniela Br端ning, Larissa Deindl Layout: Andrea Reichart Pictures: Daniela Br端ning, Larissa Deindl

I perceived art as something abstract - expensive paint on expensive canvas, depicting mental old men’s colorful ‘Hirngespinste’ and barely-clad women draped on couches. ‘Do not touch’ is a warning that still pops up in my mind whenever I think of art. You’d better not drop ice cream on a million-dollar Picasso piece.

Underground gorilla

The Flower

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Author: Annika Sickinger Layout: Monika Eder Pictures: Annika Sickinger

Today I met Petra Leonie Pichler, playwright and head of bluespotproductions, a project founded in 2011 in Augsburg which has become known with productions such as “Undine - Die Erste Meerjungfrau”, “Untypische Adventslesungen” and “0821 - Fremde Träume”. In February, they‘re staging Berthold Brecht’s “Baal” in the Altes Stadtbad and since I’ve known Petra from my old theatre days, I wanted to know how the whole venture came into being.

Author: Elisabeth Schmitt Layout: Monika Eder Pictures: bluespotsproductions

The cheerful sparrow and the little bee, printed on postcards, grace the walls of every second them at bars and cafes, for free, but have you ever wondered where they came from? The sparrow and the bee are the mascots of a rather young, but extraordinary local business, the culture and motion center ‘Space 2b’.

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‘Space 2b’ is an artist community that not only connects culture and motion in a unique way, but also people of all ages. We wanted to know more about the birthplace of the bee and the sparrow, so we talked to their inventors: Danie-

A place where creativity can unfold

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tation of OSHO, Bodybliss and Pilates, all of these -

You want to join the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Space 2bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; team, exhibit your own art or take part in one of the courses?

During the last two years, attentive students at Augsburg University have probably noticed that something has been going on next to the main library. A new building has been slowly taking form. In May 2009, construction workers started on the new art and music building, 2011. Well.., summer is over and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re already looking forward to the next one. And what happened to the long-yearned for music and

One campus for all! Is there anything else to complain about?

was then moved back to just before Christmas 2011. But all of the faculty and staff plan to ginning of Summer Semester 2012.

What do Augsburg University students think?

Author: Andrea Reichart Layout: Andrea Reichart Picture: Andrea Reichart

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Who hasn’t been confronted with situations like this: You’re hungry and want to cook a meal, so you open the door of the refrigerator – and it’s almost empty. You throw a glance at the clock – 8.05 p.m. All the supermarkets have already closed. How are you supposed to stave off hunger? You’ll probably have to take and try to make the best of a bad job. You soon realize that it’s all about being creative. We decided to do a little experiment on ourselves, and so we searched for some crazy recipes on the Internet. Here we go!

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Authors: Daniela Br端ning, Larissa Deindl Layout: Andrea Reichart Pictures: Daniela Br端ning, Larissa Deindl 35

From ancient times until today art has always touched people. With art human beings are able to express their feelings in a much more powerful way than with words. Art is a universal language everyone understands all around the world, regardless of which culture or country one belongs to. However, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not accepted everywhere if artists express their opinions in public. Consider, for example, China, where a man was arrested for precisely this reason.

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Ai WeiWei

The case of Ai Weiwei

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The opposite: The hype around Banksy

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Authors: Max Becker, Stefanie Dintner Layout: Alina Ludwig pictures: Henning Hraban / PIXELIO Elke Sawistowksi / PIXELIO Rike / PIXELIO

A multinational corporation making money with kitschy princesses and fairy tales – that’s what Disney’s all about, right? Well, that’s what I thought until I was proven wrong.

Food is travel

One day isn’t enough

Creativity for everyone

Author: Alina Ludwig Layout: Alina Ludwig Picture: Hexe / PIXELIO

You’re already dreading the lonesome weekends when all your friends are somewhere up high on a mountain in the Alps, dashing through the snow and having endless cups of Jagertee or hot cocoa in a cozy ski-bar and warming up close to a genuine romantic

Alps – Alternative style

injured or just the fact that you never learned how to keep your balance on two thin sticks of wood. Don’t you worry anymore – we’ll show you a creative approach to a trip to the Alps – with and without winter sports.

The Kitzbuheler Alps – not like the usual vacation

Author: Annika Sickinger Layout: Monika Eder Picture: Annika Sickinger 39

king “Yoga Hip Hop”? Nicholas Giacomini, aka MC Yogi, knows because this is the road which his life has taken him on. Through Yoga, he’s gained a new perspective on life and now he is giving back, not only by teaching Yoga but also by means of his devotional Hip Hop music.

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MC Yogi’s Music

Yoga meets Hip Hop

Author: Susanne Steinacher Layout: Felicitas Schilling Picture: Susanne Steinacher 40

Hey, I’m Anne. I’m 1.74 m tall with blonde hair and brown eyes. I love dark chocolate, dancing and I’ve only won two things in my life: A 10 dollar petrol voucher and a lexicon about animals -- nothing too thrilling. But hey, that doesn’t mean anything because today is the day, right? If not here, where? If not now, when? It’s VEGAS BABY! Time to go for it!

Feel the fear and do it anyway! There’s more than one right answer

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It’s a matter of perspective

Author: Anne Huff (guest contribution) Layout: Monika Eder Pictures: wilhei55/ FLICKR dieter20d/ PIXELIO 41

It was a story of good and evil,... ten years ago when a friend mentioned that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been at a con and talked about her experiences. I was already into the idea but it

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opportunity to take part in a LARP came up suddenly when my sister asked me whether I would join her and some friends at a con for a weekend. Of course, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say no!

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Modern art polarizes. Lovers vs. Objectors – while some of us love it, a lot of people share the opinion of America’s most popular comicstrip artist, Al Capp, who once stated: “[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.” Admittedly, thinking of artists who smash vegetables against walls and call it art afterwards, one can almost understand such an opinion. But don’t you think it is kind of silly to reduce modern art to tomato sauce trickling off museum walls? Doesn’t it offer more than wannabe artists who sell meaningless garbage?

Author: Alexa Rauscher Layout: Alexa Rauscher Picture: Christiane Haas

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Usually when you enter an art museum you expect to see pastoral landscapes, people adorned in old-timey dress or warscenes or from the Bible. Nobody will reproach you for this, because the pieces you think you’ll see are the ones you adamantly learned about in school. However, when you‘re confronted with blank canvases adorned with a black dot or weird stripes, I’m sure you’ll feel as confused as I do.

Is this art for real?!

Modern Art vs Childrens’ scribbles

If the art is not convincing, it’s the name …?

Author: Isabel Rackow Layout: Isabel Rackow Pictures: Isabel Rackow; Rainer Sturm / PIXELIO

Charity article about ‘Die Junge Werkstatt’ Augsburg

Being left high and dry by luck and des- tiny – This is something some of the apprentices at ‘Die Junge Werkstatt’ would say about their past. Some lack the drive to look for an apprenticeship for personal reasons. Others

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Author: Isabel Rackow Layout: Isabel Rackow Pictures: Die Junge Werkstatt Sabine Harazim / PIXELIO 48

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Hard to believe but true: Learning a foreign language doesn’t always have to be time-consuming and exhausting; all you need is a bit of creativity. Chinese, which is said to be a really challenging language to acquire, turns out to be pretty easy to understand, as long as you know the necessary tricks ;)

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