1.Die frühen Gedichte Rilkes, die er für Lou Andreas Salomé am Anfang ihrer Begegnung schrieb, waren für Salomé viel zu schwülstig, viel zu begehrend, die Liebe übertreibend: sie erkannte seine dichterische Begabung, aber konnte seinen erotischen Fantasien nicht folgen. Sie schrieb den beruehmten Satz: „Dem noch nicht Vollendbarem musste Sentimentalität aushelfen“. Rilke hatte damals seine… Das Schopenhauer Spiel weiterlesen
Dialogue
Catalog II The exhibition „Dialogue“ by Willie Bester and Wolf Werdigier, opened on February 1, 2025, and run until February 28, 2025, at the „Art B“ Gallery in Belleville, Cape Town. https://www.artb.co.za/dialogue-intro/ This exhibition provided the framework for a discussion that spanned several phases. Phase 1 While the first phase, the exhibition itself, focused on… Dialogue weiterlesen
„Liebe im Hauptberuf“
die nächsten Termine, alle in der Produzentengalerie.Wien Marc Aurelstrasse 10, 1010 Wien: Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 19.00 Uhr Diskussion: „Wie sieht ein solcher Briefwechsel heute aus?“ Donnerstag, 31. Oktober 19.00 Uhr Die Philosophen Alice Pechriggl und Walter Seitter im Gespräch Donnerstag, 7. November 19.00 Uhr. Zusammenfassung und Resume der Diskussionen
A theatre evening in Cape Town
A theatre evening in Cape Town Like every year, I invite friends and colleagues to dinner this year to say goodbye and also to present my work here in South Africa: Pictures and sculptures I made. The atmosphere is characterized by warmth and affection, but also always new ideas and conversations come up. This time… A theatre evening in Cape Town weiterlesen
Zeitz MOCAA
In der jüngsten Ausstellung im Zeitz MOCAA Museum in Kapstadt unter den Titel „Seismography of Struggle“ wird eine historische Zusammenfassung der revolutionären Bewegungen in Kuba, Afrika und Asien gezeigt. Ein Bild, das wir als Linke vor 50 Jahren teilten. Heute im Kampf um Demokratie in Europe, sehen wir das anders. Bei uns ist es das Ringen… Zeitz MOCAA weiterlesen
International Art Fair. Cape Town 2024
To work in South Africa is a change of perspective that is very impressive. Europe is not everything and soon every fourth inhabitant on earth will be African. Much of what we long for in Europe, such as human warmth, youth, imagination, dreaming, is here in abundance, but also injustice, poverty and the “economy of… International Art Fair. Cape Town 2024 weiterlesen
The Victoria Mxenge Housing Project
February 7th 2024 The “Victoria Mxenge Housing Project” is a wonderful example of a grassroot initiative together with government housing policy. It is noteworthy that the initiative came from women in the townships. A quarter of South Africa’s population still lives in the shacks of townships. They are the remnants of the apartheid era. In… The Victoria Mxenge Housing Project weiterlesen
16. January 2024 South Africa accuses Israel
Why is it just South Africa accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gazah? Has this war been a kind of retraumatisation of Southafrican people with the apartheid history? Israelis treating Palestinians as apartheid did with the black people in South Africa. Or is it just a kind of freeloader politics? I asked different friends and… 16. January 2024 South Africa accuses Israel weiterlesen
6. Jan 2024 Ripley continued
January 6th, 2024 Jay Pather talked about his production of the play “hold still” by Nadia Davids. It’s about a married couple, he the son of Holocaust survivors, she the daughter of anti-apartheid fighters and their son who hides a refugee who is wanted by the police. The parents are outraged that their son is… 6. Jan 2024 Ripley continued weiterlesen
17. Dezember 2023
Self-analysis, crime novel, or a Wednesday Salon? rather a book of Fernando Pessoas disquiet Since my childhood at school, the phenomenon of bad attitude in my colleagues has accompanied me in a strange way: it is the concept of “I am not stupid” coupled with extreme cynicism, a kind of invulnerability vis-a-vis me. I’ve already… 17. Dezember 2023 weiterlesen