APRIL MAY 2017 programme
OVERVIEW When
What & Where
06/04/2017- BikoHausen: Steve Bantu Biko 06/06/2017 and Karlheinz Stockhausen, Johannesburg, 1971
GOETHE-INSTITUT
08/04/2017 Reading and Conversation with Austrian author Gerhild Steinbuch
GOETHE-INSTITUT
20/04/2017 Wortspiel-Show
Goethe-Institut
24/04/2017
Film Screening: Coming out (1989)
Goethe-Institut
28/04/2017- Oberhausen Film Festival 30/04/2017
The Bioscope, Maboneng
05/05/2017- European Film Festival 14/05/2017
Johannesburg, Cape Town,
Durban, Pretoria 16/05/2017
Literary Crossroads: Imraan
Coovadia (SA) & Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (Nigeria)
Goethe-Institut
17/05/2017-
ASSITEJ World Congress and
27/05/2017 International Theatre Festival for Children and Young People
Cape Town
29/05/2017 Film Screening: Good Bye Lenin (2003) Goethe-Institut Admission to all events is free of charge, unless otherwise stated
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INSTALLATION & PERFORMANCE LECTURE
BikoHausen: Steve Bantu Biko and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Johannesburg, 1971
INSTALLATION OPENING: 06/04/2017 6.30PM EXHIBITION Runs to 6 June PERFORMANCE LECTURE: 09/04/2017 3PM GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVE., 2193 PARKWOOD
© Catherine Meyburgh
Philip Miller in collaboration with Siya Makuzeni (Voice), Ann Masina (Voice), Tlale Makhene (Percussion and Voice), Bham Ntabeni (Voice), Waldo Alexander (Violin), Vus’umuzi Nhlapo (Voice) and Catherine Meyburgh (Projection Design) At the end of a working lecture tour to South Africa in March 1971, the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and his wife Mary Bauermeister visited Soweto accompanied by black consciousness activist Steve Biko. There is little archival evidence of this meeting of two revolutionary leaders; Biko a radical thinker, student and black consciousness leader, Stockhausen one of the foremost avant-garde composers of the 20th Century. No-one can ever know what exactly transpired when Biko met Stockhausen in Soweto on that day. What their conversation was? What were the topics they might have covered? Music? Politics? We can however imagine and
extemporize. Together with his collaborators, Miller’s new work explores an imagined dialogue. A single performance workshop day was assembled in Downtown Studios Johannesburg with some of Philip Miller’s long-term collaborators. Together, they intuitively responded to a series of selected fragmented archival sound recordings. These sound fragments were taken from a television interview with Biko, together with a recording of Stockhausen’s Johannesburg lectures. BikoHausen takes the form of triptych video installation with multichanneled sound created from the filming and sound recording of this one-day workshop.
LITERATURE
Gerhild Steinbuch: Reading and Conversation
08/04/2017 5PM GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVE., 2193 PARKWOOD Austrian author Gerhild Steinbuch will read from her theatre plays and reveal more about herself and her work in conversation with Prof. HansJörg Knobloch. Presented by Johannesburg’s Society of German Language. The event will be in German. Gerhild Steinbuch (born in 1983 in Mödling, Austria) studied Creative Writing for the Stage in Graz and Dramaturgy in Berlin. In 2004, she took part in the Royal Court Theatre’s Summer School in London as well as the Werkstatttage workshop at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Gerhild Steinbuch writes prose and theatre plays and has received numerous grants and awards, among them the Reinhard-Priessnitz Award (2005). In 2005 she was nominated for the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Award. In 2007/2008 she was a resident at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. In 2008/2009 she was artist in residence at Schauspielhaus Wien. For the work on her first novel she received a scholarship by Austria’s ministry of education, art and culture in 2009/2010. Gerhild Steinbuch teaches Drama in Vienna and Leipzig. © Rowohlt Theaterverlag
MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Wortspiel-Show
20/04/2017 7PM GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVE., 2193 PARKWOOD What do a poetry slammer, a singer-Songwriter and an improvisational theatre duo in common? Of course: A stage. An evening. And lots of fun. This performance will be in German. There will be another performance on Tuesday, 18 April 2017, 7pm, at the Deutsche Schule Kapstadt, KTS, 28 Bay View Ave, Tamboerskloof 8001.
FILM SCREENING
Coming out (1989)
24/04/2017 7PM GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVE., 2193 PARKWOOD
Š DEFA Film Library
East Berlin in the late eighties: Philipp, a young teacher, begins a love affair with his colleague Tanja. For years, he has kept his real sexual orientation a secret, until a re-encounter with his former friend, Jacob, once again makes him aware of his suppressed longings. In a bar, Philipp meets Matthias and falls in love with him. From then on, the teacher leads a double life. Tanja knows nothing about Matthias, nor does Philipp tell Matthias about his relationship with Tanja. It is just a matter of time before things go wrong. Coming Out was the first and only feature film in the GDR to openly examine the theme of homosexuality. It premiered on 9 November 1989, the evening on which the Berlin Wall fell. English Subtitles. Please RSVP to bso@johannesburg.goethe.org.
FILM FESTIVAL
Oberhausen on Tour
28/04/2017 – 30/04/2017 The Bioscope, 286 Fox St, Johannesburg, 2094, Award winner programme: 28 and 30 April Artists Film programme: 29 April From 28 to 30 April, the best films from the Oberhausen Sort Film competition will be screened at the Bioscope. Two programmes will be screened: the 2016 Award Winners programme and the Artist Film Programme.
Ego Mein Alter - Nova Huta, Mariola Brillowska, Germany 2015 © Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Award Winners programme: This line-up spotlights all the main winners of the 2016 festival. First, Sarah Drath shows us Turkey against the backdrop of its history, in a film full of ambiguous political commentary. In Andreas Hofstetter’s music video “All Day”, we can dream our way into the visual cosmos of the internet in the space of just four minutes. “489 Years” then leads the way in enthralling computer-animated image sequences down the dangerous path through a mined paradise in Korea. Lav Diaz’s formally one-of-a-kind sci-fi film “The day before the end”, in which the Philippines prepare for a severe storm, has a compelling political urgency. Vika Kirchenbauer’s sensual concept video “SHE WHOSE BLOOD IS CLOTTING IN MY UNDERWEAR” looks at the violence of lust in scenes both loud and intimate, brutal and tender. And finally, in Louise Carrin’s “Venusia”, awarded the Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen, we observe and listen to private and intimate moments between the owner of a luxury brothel and an untalented prostitute. This unusual double portrait unfolds a dynamic landscape of the human condition. Artist Film programme These six works between Black Box and White Cube present very special personal perspectives on expansiveness, landscape and memory while making use of quite unusual aesthetics and techniques. Some of the filmmakers and artists represented have already shown their works successfully in galleries and art exhibitions all over the world, including at the Venice Biennale. Overall, this set of works, some of them award-winning, give viewers an impression of the current state of international media art. The programme also impressively demonstrates how Oberhausen has long since “positioned itself at the intersection to the visual arts, moving incrementally to the arts side” (Frankfurter Rundschau, May 2016). For details of screening times and bookings (Tickets are at R 45.00), please go to http://www.thebioscope.co.za/
LITERATURE
LITERARY CROSSROADS: Imraan Coovadia (SA) & Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (Nigeria)
16/05/2017 7PM GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVE., 2193 PARKWOOD
Imraan Coovadia directs the creative writing programme at the University of Cape Town. His most recent book is Tales of the Metric System, which appeared in the US, South Africa, India, and Germany. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is a Nigerian writer and journalist. His debut collection of short stories The Whispering Trees was long-listed for the Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2014, with the title story shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing. His debut novel Season of Crimson Blossoms was published in the UK in May 2016 by Cassava Republic Press. Abubakar is a Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fellow (2013) and a Civitella Ranieri Fellow (2015). In 2014, Abubakar was named in the Hay Festival Africa39 list of the most promising writers under the age of 40 who will define future trends in African writing. Abubakar is the recipient of the 2016 Goethe-Institut & Sylt Foundation African Writer’s Residency Award. He lives in Abuja, Nigeria. Š www.cassavarepublic.biz Literary Crossroads is a series of talks where South African writers meet colleagues from all over the continent and from the African diaspora to discuss trends, topics and themes prevalent in their literatures today. The series is curated by Indra Wussow and Sine Buthelezi.
YOUTH THEATRE
ASSITEJ World Congress and International Theatre Festival for Children and Young People
17/05/2017 - 27/05/2017 Various venues IN Cape Town The South African branch of the World Association for Theatre for Young people and Children (ASSITEJ) presents a World Congress and a Performing Arts Festival in Cape Town from 17 to 27 May 2017. This will be the first ASSITEJ World Congress to be held on the African continent since the inception of ASSITEJ in 1965. The event will be conceptualised not only as a South African event, but also as a truly African one, focusing on what the continent has to offer in terms of theatre for young audiences. With Africa being the cradle of humankind, this Congress will be a “cradle of creativity” around theatre for young audiences on the continent and across the world.
Scene from “Anziehsachen”. Photo by Katrin Schander
The Goethe-Institut supports five productions featured on the festival programme, and present a coproduction platform for theatre makers from Germany and several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Productions supported by the Gothe-Institut include: “Anziehsachen” (Clothes) by the Theaterhaus Ensemble, “Sandscape” and “Woodways” (both plays created in a workshop that took place in Cape Town in 2016 under the guidance of Magnet Theatre and Helios Theater), “Our House” (a coproduction between Helios Theater and the Ishyo Arts Centre in Kigali) and “Obisike, It Takes A Lion’s Heart”, a coproduction between ASSITEJ Nigeria and Young Playhouse & Düsseldorf Playhouse. For full programme and tickets, visit www.assitej2017.org.za.
FILM SCREENING
Good Bye Lenin (2003)
29/05/2017 7PM GOETHE-INSTITUT, 119 JAN SMUTS AVE., 2193 PARKWOOD
© Global Screen
Berlin (East) in autumn 1989: Alex Kerner’s mother is in a coma after a heart attack and misses the fall of the Berlin Wall. She awakes in summer 1990. Her doctor declares that excitement of any kind could be fatal. Alex keeps the truth from her and pretends that the GDR still exists; the illusion remains perfect until one day the truth can no longer be concealed. The clever comedy was the most successful film of the year in 2003. English Subtitles. Please RSVP to bso@johannesburg.goethe.org.
OTHER THINGS WE DO LECTURE/WORKSHOPS
SAGV Conference (Association for German Studies in Southern Africa)
10/04/2017 – 12/04/2017 Stellenbosch University The Association for German Studies in Southern Africa celebrated their 50-year anniversary in 2016. Bi-annually the Association organizes an academic conference which the Goethe-Institut supports by contributing with two workshops as well as hosting an evening programme. This year, the topic of the conference will be “Schauplätze – Schauspiele” (Locations
– Performances). Therefore, the Goethe-Institut has invited the fourmember group “Wortspiel” from Germany. They will be performing an evening programme and facilitate workshops on poetry slam, songwriting and improvisational theatre.
INTERACTIVE GAME
Multilingualism Challenge
06/05/2017 North-West University, Potchefstroom Living and promoting multilingualism is essential for intercultural dialogue and cultural diversity. This is why Goethe-Institut South Africa developed the interactive language game “Multilingualism Challenge”, which has been touring around the country since 2015. This time around, students at the North-West University Potchefstroom campus will be getting the
opportunity to learn new things about many different languages in a fun way. Moving from station to station, they need to perform different tasks and ultimately qualify to collect prizes!
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Festival Director Katarina Hedrén says: “We are delighted to present the 4th edition of the European Film Festival in South Africa. With this year’s selection, which includes films of different genres, textures and moods, the aim is to entertain, amuse and stimulate thought too. The theme binding the films together is cinematic excellence through acclaimed and award-winning films from 12 European countries. This year’s German entry is the much celebrated comedy, Toni Erdmann by Maren Ade, which was nominated for the 2017 Oscars for Best Foreign Film.” The European Film Festival is coordinated by the Goethe-Institut South Africa, hosted by Ster-Kinekor Cinema Nouveau, and organised in partnership with the Delegation of the European Union to South Africa and 12 other European cultural agencies or embassies in South Africa. For more information, visit www.eurofilmfest.co.za.
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Still from “King of the Belgians” © Nedelcho Hazarbasanov
From 5 to 14 May, the European Film Festival 2017 will bring the best of European cinema to Cinema Nouveau screens in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban.