PROGRAMME AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2019 CHENNAI GOETHE SUPER LEAGUE 2019
INTER-SCHOOL FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT 15 July 2019 – 07 August 2019 Trichy | Madurai | Coimbatore | Chennai Being a very special and successful year for Goethe-Institut, we are extremely proud and happy to come out with Goethe Super League 2019, an inter-school football tournament.
Organised for the fourth consecutive year by Goethe-Institut, it gains prominence as it will be organised in 4 different zones of Tamil Nadu namely Trichy, Madurai, Coimbatore, Chennai and will be having a state After the elimination matches in the four cities, the level final in Chennai. semifinals and finals will be held in Chennai. This year’s Goethe Super League (GSL) would like to foster interest in Semifinals (Boys & Girls) on 06 August 2019 football and provide upcoming school players an opportunity to showcase their talent. GSL also endeavors to promote interest in Germany and the Finals (Boys & Girls) on 07 August 2019 German language through the medium of football. The tournament is SDAT Nehru Park Stadium, Chennai therefore being conducted in a bigger and more competitive format with 16 boys’ teams and 8 girls’ teams expected to participate from each zone.
An interesting feature of GSL is that the duration of each match will be no longer than 40 minutes. Another key aspect is that experienced and qualified referees will be adjudicating the matches. Attractive prizes await the winners of the tournament. FILM FESTIVAL In collaboration with Orinam and Berlinale Spotlight
Reel Desires Chennai International Queer Film Festival 2 August 2019 | 6.00 pm - 9.00 pm 3 August 2019 | 3.00 pm - 9.00 pm 4 August 2019 | 3.00 pm - 9.00 pm
Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan is pleased to bring you again this year the Reel Desires, a three-day series of feature films, shorts, and documentaries showcasing sexuality and gender diversity issues.
This year’s festival is the first after the Supreme Court of India decriminalised same-gender relations, in the landmark Navtej Singh Johar verdict. This has led to a huge number of submissions from India.
Films at Reel Desires explore intersections among gender/sexuality Still from Njan Sanjo (India, 2019) movements with other struggles for social justice, and those that reflect the universality and specificity of LGBTIQA+ lives across space and time.
The film festival is being held in association with Orinam, a local collective that has been working since 2003 to end gender- and sexuality- based discrimination and provide social and support spaces for the LGBTIQA+ communities in Chennai. Co-organizing the event are several community groups and NGOs. Shorts from Berlinale and India’s Public Service Still from Dante vs. Mohammed Ali Broadcasting Trust will be among the highlights of the 2019 festival. (Netherlands, 2018) Still from Narciso (Israel, 2018) Besides films, Reel Desires will also feature performances and a panel discussion. For more information or to participate in Reel Desires Reel Desires is a reminder of our common humanity that transcends contact [email protected] visit www.ciqff.org or boundaries of sexuality, gender identity and culture. call +91 98843 73433 ARCHITECTURE TALK SERIES in cooperation with Saveetha College of Architecture and Design and Confluence 10
The Practice – Challenges and Possibilities Eat Love Play Discourse
10 August 2019 | 6.00 pm | Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Ar. Gurjit Singh Matharoo
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Chennai and Saveetha College of Architecture and Design present Architecture Talk Series - The PRACTICE - CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES.
The Talk series has been ideated and curated by Confluence Ten and the Roots Fellowship Program.
The year-long series invites thinkers, architects, artists, anthropologists related to habitat, design and environment. A wide range of themes are explored on the state of our cities, its architecture, sustainability, climate change and water, the talks are open to all.
Matharoo Associates is a 25 year old practice that began operations in Ahmedabad, India. In 2013, Gurujit Singh Matharoo was conferred an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, only the third Indian after B.V.Doshi and Charles Correa to be honoured. The diverse range of projects have brought the firm international and domestic recognition, including the 2011 International Architecture Award by the Chicago Athenaeum, the 2010 Architectural Review House Award and the 2009 AR Emerging Architecture Award, to name a few. MusiX A space not only to immerse in music but also to reflect upon musical experiences.
DUO HANSCHEL – SHOTHAM Non-classical Jazz Mix Roger Hanschel began to play the saxophone at 11. With a fascination for jazz, improvised music at 14, he founded his first group having studied at the 18 August 2019 | 7.00 pm | Goethe-Institut Auditorium Cologne Music Academy. Hanschel is a member of the Kölner Saxophon Mafia Roger Hanschel Saxophone since 1987 which has received 4 German Record Prizes as well as the SWR Jazz Prize. Since 2007 he has been performing solo concerts throughout Ramesh Shotham Percussion Europe. In 2014 he founded the group Trio Benares with Indian musicians. The duo HANSCHEL–SHOTHAM think outside the box and look Since 2010 he teaches saxophone at the Musikhochschule in Cologne and has beyond the horizon. Their non-classical Jazz-mix is a fusion released 38 CDs. https://rogerhanschel.de/en of Indian temple-music with virtuoso saxophone sounds. Ramesh Shotham, born South India began his musical career as a self-taught Excellently made music in a fine contrast, the alto saxophone drummer, co-leading a Rock band called Human Bondage. After that Ramesh and percussion are from time to time contrary and quite took up study of the Tavil (a traditional temple music drum). This extended abstract, yet surprising with precise synchronization. his repertoire to other classical percussion instruments, like Ghatam, These internationally well-known musicians are experts in Mridangam, Kanjira and Morsing. Since 1981, Shotham lives and works in their own music styles, well-experienced in cross-cultural Europe and has performed with leading international Jazz contemporary musical ventures. Both Roger Hanschel and and Rock musicians. Shotham has recorded over 120 LPs Ramesh Shotham have received the prestigious German WDR and CDs and has worked for almost all the leading TV Jazz Award 2018, Hanschel in the category ‘Improvisation’ as and Radio stations in Germany and Europe. solo saxophonist and Shotham in the category ‘Music https://shotham.org/ Cultures’. According to the Jury is Roger Hanschel the dream of a virtuoso stylist, one who knows what he does constantly developing towards perfection, and on reaching losing himself again to explore newer musical frontiers. Ramesh Shotham, the self-taught percussionist, who began his career as a rock-band drummer, inspired by ‘Beatles’ and ‘Rolling Stones’ creates a fusion of unusual cultural styles, quite contrary to his long training in Indian temple and percussion training. South Asian Music Residency
In collaboration with A R Rahman’s K M Music Conservatory SAMUR III - 2019 Discovering new paths towards creating cross-cultural contemporary music… The Directors of SAMUR III 2019 will be German composer and 18 August - 01 September 2019 Saxophone player Roger Hanschel (who was also a curator of SAMUR II, 2017) and Indo-German composer, Drummer and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Chennai Percussionist Ramesh Shotham. Both these well-known musicians K M Music Conservatory, Chennai have received the prestigious German WDR Jazz Award 2018,
rd Hanschel in the category ‘Improvisation’ and Shotham in the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Chennai is launching the 3 South category ‘Music Cultures’. Asian Music Residency, SAMUR III 2019. Dr James Bunch, composer, performer, conductor, educator, and After two successful music residencies in 2016 and 2017, SAMUR re- concert organizer from KMMC Chennai will be the co-director for emerges with a new batch of 12 musicians, composers, improvisers and SAMUR III. performers from Germany and the South Asian region, who will be The participating musicians of SAMUR III 2019 are: selected and invited to come together for two weeks in Chennai for a SAMUR III will take place at K M Music Conservatory in Chennai unique creative musical collaboration. with professional musicians, performers, improvisers and 1. BEHNAM MASOUMI – Percussion (IRAN) 7. NISHAD PANDEY – Guitar (INDIA) composers from Germany, India, Afganistan, Bangladesh, Iran, The South Asian Music Residency (SAMUR) encourages its participants to Nepal and Sri Lanka. 2. CALVIN LENNIG – Bass (GERMANY) 8. PURANJAY GUHA – Shree-Taar (INDIA) share ideas, perform each other's works, and write music for one another, 3. HARI SARAN GURUNG – Guitar (NEPAL) 9. SABRIN ZAHAN KRITI – Vocal (BANGLADESH) while exploring their own musical vision and broadening their artistic and The selected participants of SAMUR III will be asked to present cultural horizons. the music scenario in their countries and to reflect upon their 4. HARINI PADMANABHAN – Vocal (INDIA) 10. SHAYEKH MOHAMMAD ARIF – Electronics (BANGLADESH) own role in it. Furthermore there will also be external 5. JULIA BRÜSSEL – Violin (GERMANY) 11. TRITHA – Vocal (INDIA) Basis and core is the ability to improvise and share ideas from all genres interactions with musical experts and groups in the form of of music. Open-minded musicians and composers from different workshops and spontaneous music-making sessions, etc. 6. MILAN GHIMIRE – Flute (NEPAL) 12. VINAYAK NETKE – Tabla (INDIA) backgrounds will collaborate in this cross-cultural venture. From its first edition, SAMUR has been a project that has not only A special feature of this music residency, SAMUR, is the presentation of created a long-lasting relationship with a wider network of The GRAND FINALE CONCERT of SAMUR III will be held on 31st August 2019, 7.00 pm at Goethe-Institut Auditorium. public performances during and at the conclusion of the residency, thus musicians, but also has had a sustained effect on all the sharing some of the participants’ creative collaborative work with the participant musicians leading them to venture into experimental public. music projects across the globe. To know more about South Asian Music Residency: http://samuresidency.blogspot.in | www.facebook.com/samuresidency FILM in cooperation with Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation
TRIBUTE TO HANNELORE ELSNER Hannelore Elsner was one of the most popular German actresses. When she died in April this year, the news spread rapidly all over Germany. Immediately her films and interviews were broadcasted widely. Not just as a beauty queen, but with her impeccable 16 August 2019 | 7.00 pm | Goethe-Institut Auditorium 23 August 2019 | 7.00 pm | Goethe-Institut Auditorium role play and humaneness, she has touched the hearts and moved the souls of many of Die Unberührbare | No place to go Alles auf Zucker | Go for Zucker-An Unorthodox Comedy her fans. Dir.: Oskar Roehler | 1999 | 100 min. Dir.: Dani Levy | 2005 | 95 min. Born in 1942, she started her film career in the late 1950s in entertainment movies. She The last few weeks in the life of novelist Gisela Elsner, who committed After the death of his mother, bankrupt gambler Jaeckie Zucker gained huge popularity with her leading role in the popular TV series 'Die Kommissarin' suicide in 1992, as related by her son, the film-maker Oskar Roehler. The receives a visit from his Orthodox brother Samuel Zuckermann and novelist, renamed Hanna Flanders in the film, has as much difficulty family. During the wake, Jaeckie secretly takes part in a pool (The Commissioner). From 1994 until 2006, she played the title character Leo Sommer in coming to terms with her own personal development as with political championship to win the money he needs to pay off his debts. more than sixty episodes. Her performance won her several awards. Elsner achieved developments, the demise of the GDR and German reunification. international recognition for her lead role in the 2000 film 'Die Unberührbare' (No Place to Go) by Oskar Röhler, shown at the Cannes Film Festival, which recounts the last days in 13 September 2019 | 7.00 pm | Goethe-Institut Auditorium 21 September 2019 | 7.00 pm | Goethe-Institut Auditorium the life of a writer, based closely on the life of Gisela Elsner, who took her own life in Kirschblüten - Hanami | Cherry Blossoms - Hanami Die endlose Nacht | The Endless Night 1992. Hannelore Elsner received numerous awards for her impressive portrayal of this Dir.: Doris Dörrie | 2008 | 127 min. Dir.: Will Tremper | 1962/63 | 85 min. broken character, including the German Film Award in the year 2000. Other important Rudi (Elmar Wepper) is unaware that he is suffering from cancer and Berlin Tempelhof Airport: Several flights have been cancelled, and roles for which she won relevant awards were in Oliver Hirschbiegel's 'Mein letzter Film' only has a few weeks left to live. The doctor has only informed his people wait in the fog for planes that don’t arrive. Individual fates (My Last Film) and Dany Levy`s comedy 'Alles auf Zucker'. (Go For Zucker – An vivacious, esoteric wife Trudi (Hannelore Elsner) of his diagnosis, and come to light behind the usual everyday stories. There’s deception and Unorthodox Comedy) she decides that they should take a last holiday together. When they adultery, lost illusions and ruined careers. Within just a few hours, arrive on the Baltic coast, Trudi dies unexpectedly – and Rudi fulfils her people are thrown off the seemingly ordered paths of their lives. When In March 2019, 'Kirschblüten & Dämonen', Doris Dörrie's sequel to her successful film lifelong dream of visiting Japan and seeing Mount Fuji. the next day arrives, their lives have changed forever. 'Kirschblüten - Hanami' (Cherry Blossoms - Hanami) premiered in German cinemas, with Elsner once more in the role of Trudi alongside Elmar Wepper. In 2019 one could see Elsner in Dörrie’s kind of proplongation 'Kirschblüten und Dämonen'.
'For me Hannelore Elsner was a great adventurer, who threw/launched herself into every role and her life with curiosity, dedication and bravery. I will miss her a lot.' said Dörrie. THEATRE in cooperation with The Hindu Theatre Fest
Bhagi Hui Ladkiyan by Aagaaz Theatre Trust
24 & 25 August 2019 | 4.30 pm & 7.30 pm Goethe-Institut Auditorium
The Hindu Theatre Fest (THTF), a marquee property of The Hindu, is an annual showcase of theatre from across India and the world. This year, the Fest forays into its 15th edition. Originally conceived and launched as The Hindu MetroPlus Theatre Fest in 2005 in Chennai, The Hindu Theatre Fest aims to build brand equity with an audience that is perceived to provide a platform for celebrating high-quality theatre as well as encourage young theatre groups. Bhagi Hui Ladkiyan is a devised performance directed by Dhwani Vij. It Over the years, the Fest grew in both ambition and size. features four Muslim teenagers from Delhi Hazrat Nizamuddin basti, and Plays from Germany, USA, Britain, Sri Lanka, and Korea have been staged in addition to showcasing the best theatre from comprises first-hand retellings of day-to-day life in the slums. Designed to all over the country. This annual festival has since been be intimate, the spectator is invited to enter the performer's world rolled out in multiple cities, including Bengaluru, Hyderabad, through the everydayness of the narrative. The stories emphasize how Coimbatore, becoming the largest privately organised theatre gender and sexuality play out in the lives of the four actors. Conversations festival in the country. about family, trust, consent, personal space and gender dynamics begin to surface. The performance attempts to highlight the contrast between the This year, to mark its 15th year, the Fest features 15 confining yet comfortable quality of the home space, and the liberating performances across four venues in Chennai. The line-up is a aspects of the outside world. The differences between ‘Who I am’ and ‘How celebration of plays that are popular, experimental and people see me’ guide the explorations, that the performers embark on. inclusive in nature. The Fest also travels to Coimbatore and Hyderabad. For tickets contact https://insider.in/go/hindu-theatre-fest-chennai ARCHITECTURE TALK SERIES in cooperation with Saveetha College of Architecture and Design and Confluence 10
The Practice – Challenges and Possibilities
06 September 2019 | 6.00 pm Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Ar. Brinda Somaya
Brinda Somaya is an architect and urban conservationist. Upon completion of her Bachelor of Architecture from Mumbai University and her Master of Arts from Smith College in Northampton, MA, U.S.A, she started her firm Somaya and Kalappa Consultants in 1978 in Mumbai, India. In May 2012 she was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from her alma mater, Smith College. In 2014 she was awarded the Indian Institute of Architects – Baburao Mhatre Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement and was also nominated for the arcVision Prize. She is the Chairperson of the Board of Governors, School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada – 2016, an Institute of National Importance. In 2017 she became a Member of the Council of Architecture Committee to review the profession and education of architecture in India and she also joined the Board of the Lafargeholcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, Zurich, Switzerland. She is also the A.D. White Professor-at-large at Cornell University, U.S.A.
Over four decades she has merged architecture, conservation and social equity in projects ranging from institutional campuses and rehabilitation of an earthquake-torn village to the restoration of an 18th century Cathedral, showing that progress and history need not be at odds. Her philosophy: ‘the Architect’s role is that of guardian – hers is the conscience of the built and un-built environment.’ This belief underlines her work that spans large corporate, industrial and institutional campuses and extends to public spaces, which she has rebuilt and sometimes reinvented as pavements, parks and plazas. DIGITAL CONCERT HALL in cooperation with BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Daniel Barenboim and Maria João Pires from Viennese Classicism to an era of Romanticism
12 September 2019 | 7.00 pm Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Programme Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 95 in C minor (23 min.) Ludwig van Beethoven Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in G major, op. 58 (39 min.) Maria João Pires piano Robert Schumann The concert opens with Symphony No. 95 in C minor by Joseph Haydn, which Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), op. 82: Der Vogel als Prophet (4 min.) reflects the ideas of grandeur, magnificence and majesty associated with his Maria João Pires piano music. The C minor Symphony bewilders its listeners, the tone changes from the Robert Schumann predominant genre pathétique to a stylized melancholy, from symphonic furor Symphony No. 4 in D minor, op. 120 (second version, 1851) (39 min.) to interplay with delicate, often surprising solos by the violin and particularly the cello, from Baroque fugal erudition to galant, witty conversation. Goethe-Institut invites the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra to its auditorium in a digital format with high definition video live- Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 was composed in proximity to the Fifth with streaming for the connoisseurs of Western classical music of the most famous common motif of all: short – short – short – long, a first Chennai. The Digital Concert Hall with excellent sound and video movement with a completely different stylistic tone and mentality unfolds. It is is the best close-to-real experience one can get. “simple, peaceful, cheerful and relaxed”. Beethoven made an astonishing impression by conceiving the opening bars as a piano solo, thus bringing an This concert is of a special significance to a great friend of the element of intimacy, individuality and sensitivity into the concerto, which is Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim as he celebrates his traditionally understood as extroverted, public and festive. golden jubilee anniversary. Daniel Barenboim conducted the orchestra for the first time 50 years ago with the same concert Robert Schumann’s Fourth Symphony a work supposed to have emerged from repertoire to be heard once again, works of Haydn, Beethoven the depths of his soul, did not achieve the hoped-for success at its premiere in and Schumann with Maria João Pires as the soloist in 1841. Schumann set the symphony aside for almost exactly ten years, then Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4. revised it so substantially and its premiere was greeted with enthusiasm. THEATRE in cooperation with Sandbox Collective
.hg Installation in 9 rooms, a prologue and an epilogue 26 - 28 September 2019 | Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Concept and realization: Cristina Galbiati & Ilija Luginbühl Production: Trickster-p Executive Producer: Sandbox Collective Supported by: Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia The moment of fairy tales is deeply intimate, it is something that goes beyond the personal data to be grafted onto an absolutely Hänsel and Gretel is a cruel and ruthless story. personal territory. Trickster-p returns to a fairy tale driven by the desire to work on a subject that belongs to the collective It is a story made of sounds and silences. imagination and therefore allows one to lose interest in events to It is a story of bones and flesh, of food and hunger. immerse oneself in that universe of images, evocations, sensations It is a story of home and of wood and still of home. that the fairy tale brings with it. It is the story of two children who, holding hands, go deep into the woods. .hg was born as a reading - and re-reading - of the classic fairy tale by Hänsel and Gretel and developed as an installation where It is a story that smells clean and at the same time ferocious. theatre and visual arts merge. It is articulated along 9 different .hg works in the balance between this ferocity and the lightness of a physical-sensorial spaces that are traversed by the spectator childish trait, for an experience that wants to be both aesthetic and accompanied and led by earphones. Each space is a world of its sensorial. own, a passage that leads into universes between the real and the dreamlike in which the mind slowly enters the imaginary and from a simple external spectator, it becomes part of it. The fairy tale is thus retraced looking for the points of rupture and those of intersection, the links between the world of childhood and adulthood. FUßBALL TRIFFT POP-UP KREATIVRÄUME | POP-UP MAKER SPACES BIBLIOTHEK in cooperation with Edutech India FOOTBALL MEETS LIBRARY 2.0
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