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Artists Residence Villa Aurora Celebrates 25Th Anniversary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, November 26, 2020 Artists Residence Villa Aurora Celebrates 25th Anniversary On December 1, 2020, we will celebrate the annual VATMH Night, an event in recognition of the achievements of the grant recipients and fellows of Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House. At the same time, we also celebrate the 25th anniversary of the artists residence Villa Aurora with an official ceremony and a versatile digital cultural program. The anniversary year will start out with a performance of Aurora (from: Nachtschatten) by internationally recognized Helmut Oehring one of the “most influential audiovisual composers” (The New Yorker) who stayed at the Villa in 2020. Oehring, son of deaf parents, was raised in the German Democratic Republic, refused to serve in the East German Army and, as a result, had to pursue his musical career as an autodidact before being accepted as master student by Georg Kratzer. Aurora was composed in early 2020 for Adumá Saxophonquartett and Susanne Kohnen on theremin and is dedicated to music critic and composer Walter Arlen on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Arlen, like Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger, fled from Nazi Germany in the 1930s and found refuge in the United States. Villa Aurora is the former Feuchtwanger home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles and has served as an artists’ residence since 1995. “It is personal encounters and direct conversations that break down resentment and release societal and national tensions. Therefore, German residency programs in the U.S. are especially important right now”, says Heike Catherina Mertens, Executive Board Members of VATMH. „The Thomas Mann House, located near Villa Aurora, has provided a platform for public debate on key issues in transatlantic dialogue since 2018. For this reason, we will be featuring important voices representing this program at our event.” The Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House Night (VATMH Night) will be opened by State Minister Michelle Müntefering. We invite attendees to take a virtual tour through the Feuchtwangers’ former exile residence in the hills of Pacific Palisades with Marta Feuchtwanger as their guide. She will take guests on a tour of one of the world’s most inspiring artists residences for visual artists, composers, filmmakers, and writers. Since Heiner Müller stayed at Villa Aurora in 1995 as the first artist-in-residence, more than 450 artists have lived and worked there on fellowships funded by the Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. In conversation with moderator Anne-Dore Krohn (rbb Kultur), VATMH’s Deputy Chair Marianne Heuwagen will evoke the founding of the residency. A commuter between Berlin and New York, Uljana Wolf forges routes from transatlantic texts. She is one of the most acclaimed German poets as well as the recipient of the Peter Huchel Award. Wolf will read from her newest publication “Etymologischer Gossip” (Kookbooks 2020), carrying listeners off to Villa Aurora through poetry. In her State of the Union(s) Address, Thomas Mann Fellow Heike Paul, professor for American studies and Leibniz laureate, will reflect on “Civic Sentimentality” on both sides of the Atlantic. Internationally renowned techno musician Hendrik Weber a.k.a Pantha du Prince has recorded a concert especially for the VATMH Night coming to us from the misty meadows of Brandenburg. In addition to this live event, VATMH Night will present short portraits of all current Villa Aurora Artists-in- Residence and Thomas Mann Fellows, artistic projects by Christoph Keller and Georg Klein, a film portrait of our first Michael Ballhaus Fellow Judith Kaufmann, an interview with Birte Meier, Editor at ZDF German Television and Thomas Mann Fellow, about her research on the lessons Germany can learn from California with regards to equal pay (filmed by Villa Aurora Alumnus Norbert Kron), as well as contributions by Thomas Mann Fellow Katharina Sykora and many others. These digital offerings will be available online until December 6, 2020. Additional information: VATHM Night (livestream only) 7 p.m. CET/10 a.m. PST to 8:30 p.m. CET/11:30 a.m. PST Free of Charge, RSVP required: www.vatmh.org/register Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House, an independent and politically unaffiliated organization of the Federal Republic of Germany, fosters the intellectual and cultural exchange between the United States and Germany. The institution awards fellowships in the two residences, Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House, in Pacific Palisades, a suburb of Los Angeles, CA., and organizes cultural programs in the U.S. and Germany. It is a reminder of the history of the European exile to California, while presenting a lively, current, and diverse image of Germany, and allowing contemplation of societal, cultural, and political challenges. Contact Project-related press contact Mirko Lux ARTPRESS – Ute Weingarten Communications and Program Management Ute Weingarten Jägerstraße 23 Danziger Str. 2 10117 Berlin/Germany 10435 Berlin T +49-(0)30-20 62 36 40 T +49 (0)30 48 49 63 50 F +49-(0)30-20 62 36 41 Cell +49 (0)175 222 15 61 [email protected] [email protected] www.vatmh.org www.artpress-uteweingarten.de .
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