Changing Views 100 Years After the Exhibition Masterpieces of Muhammedan Art in Munich
September 2010 – February 2011
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The Future of Tradition – The Tradition of Future: With the generous support of the Schörghuber Corporate Group 100 Years after the Exhibition and the Goethe Institute Egypt Masterpieces of Muhammedan Art In collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches in Munich Institut in Florence – Max Planck Institute Friday, 17 September 2010 – Sunday, 09 January 2011 Guided tours: Public tours, free of charge, German Haus der Kunst, Prinzregentenstraße 1, 80538 Munich every Mon 18 h, Fri 16 h, Sun 15.30 h Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-211 27-113, www.hausderkunst.de Opening hours: Mon–Sun 10-20 h, Thu 10-22 h Public tours, free of charge, English Admission: 10 | 7 € [reduced] Fri 18.30 h on 17| 24 Sep, 1| 8|15 |22 Oct 5|19 Nov, 3|17 Dec In 1910, the largest exhibition of art from the Islamic cultural sphere took Public tours of the MVHS, German place in Munich. With almost 3,600 exhibits in 80 rooms, Masterpieces every Sat 15 h, 6 € of Muhammedan Art set new standards for the research and reception Mediation of art from Muslim countries. Exactly one hundred years later, the exhi- «art after work» or «tour, coffee and cake» see to www.hausderkunst.de bition at the Haus der Kunst recalls this epoch-making show but with a critical addition: it not only includes contemporary art, design, photog - Private tours may be arranged on request [email protected] raphy, architecture and fashion, but also provides the opportunity for contemporary artists and institutions from throughout the Islamic world Catalogue: to participate in the exhibition and thus provide fresh perspectives on Zukunft der Tradition – The Future of Tradition a multitude of contemporary issues. The exhibition space, for instance, edited by Chris Dercon and Avinoam Shalem, Prestel Verlag, Munich 2010, German and English, 120 p. Price: 29.80 is designed by Samir el Kordy, one of Egypt's most innovative young € [exhibition], 39.95 € [book trade] architects, while collaboration with Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès and the Khatt Foundation allows the presentation of new developments in Framework programme: see p. 44 Arabic typography. The central space of the exhibition is devoted to the reinstallation of approximately 30 of the most di- stinctive and well-known artefacts originally pre- sented in the 1910 exhibition, while contributions by invited artists and institutions fill the surroun- ding spaces. Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation 4 5 Exhibitions Exhibitions
The Aura of Alif Guided tours: The Art of Writing in Islam may be arranged for groups on request Friday, 22 October 2010 – Sunday, 20 February 2011 [[email protected]] Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München Public tours of the museum Maximilianstraße 42, 80538 Munich occur on Sundays, 14 h: Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-21 01 36-100 24 Oct | 21 Nov |12 Dec 2010 and www.voelkerkundemuseum-muenchen.de 23 Jan | 20 Feb.2011 Opening hours: Tue–Sun 9.30-17.30 h Public tours of the MVHS, 14.30 h: Admission: 6 | 5 € [reduced] 14 Nov | 05 Dec 2010 and 09 Jan | 13 Feb 2011 6 € The written world is a central component of Muslim culture and heri- tage. The exhibition aims to introduce viewers to the beauty of Arabic Framework programme: siehe S. 46, 47, 48, 50, 51 writing and the depth of its meaning and metaphoric complexity. Be- ginning with the inherent aesthetic quality of calligraphy, visitors will be Catalogue: acquainted with the historical, contextual, and symbolic dimensions of The Aura of Alif. writing with regards to religious, poetic and occult texts. Writing surfaces The Art of Writing in Islam include not only paper and animal hide, but also ceramic, metal, glass, Edited by Jürgen Wasim Frembgen wood and textiles. The objects on display date from the early period of Munich 2010, Prestel Verlag Islam to the present and include examples fashioned for the ruling elite Preview: and also pieces more representative of a «folk» or popular aesthetic Exhibition Oya date. The dignity of Muslim cultures and their artistic forms of expression April 2011 until March 2012 are brought to life in the aura of the Alif, the first letter in the Arabic see lecture on p. 43 alphabet, symbolic of divine beauty. 6 7 Exhibitions Exhibitions
The Wonders of Creation Manuscripts of the Bavarian State Library from the Islamic World Thursday, 16 September 2010 – Sunday, 05 December 2010
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Ludwigstraße 16, 80539 Munich Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-286 38-24 29, www.bsb-muenchen.de Opening hours: Mon–Fri 10-17 h, Thu 10-19 h Sat |Sun 13 -17 h, closed on holidays Free admission
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the exhibition Masterpieces of Muhammedan Art, the library has organised a selection of its pre- cious manuscripts. As one of the world’s preeminent academic libraries, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has been collecting an extensive archive of Islamic ma- nuscripts for over 450 years. The repertoire encompasses over 4,000 manuscripts from throughout the Islamic world. Following the tradition of 1910, valuable objects which were once displayed in the exhibition Masterpieces of Muhammedan Art are now shown in the library’s Für- stensaal, whereas in the Schatzkammer important new acquisitions of the past 100 years are introduced. The 80 artefacts on display include superb Koran manuscripts and prayer books, illustrated Arabic manu- scripts, Persian and Turkish miniature manuscripts, calligraphies and ex- amples of particular book-binding and paper-making techniques.
An audioguide system in German is available free of charge. Framework programme: see p. 34
Catalogue: The Wonders of Creation. Manuscripts of the Bavarian State Library from the Islamic World Exhibition’s curator and editor of the catalogue: Dr. Helga Rebhan. 20 € 8 9 Exhibitions Exhibitions
Inner Landscapes Israeli Contemporary Photography Friday, 10 September 2010 – Saturday, 09 October 2010
Bernheimer Fine Art Photography, Brienner Straße 7, 80333 Munich Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-22 66 72, www.bernheimer.com Opening hours: Tue–Fri 10-18 h, Sat 11-16 h Free admission
This exhibition in the Bernheimer Gallery grants the audience insight into the art of the Israeli post-war generation of photographers. Their work considers the topography of Israel today, focusing both on the actual geographic surface of the region and on the psychological state of their generation. Political changes and the religious conflict between the Jewish and Muslim populations form the framework of this exhibition. Michal Rovner [*1955, Israel] uses photography, installation, and video arts for delving into the main principles of a collective identity and a sense of «togetherness». Simcha Shirman [*1947, Germany], Gilad Ophir [*1957, Israel] and Roi Kuper [*1957, Israel] study the country's changing borders and the population's point of view. The work of Sigalit Landau [*1969, Israel], considered one of the foremost contemporary Israeli art- ists, addresses topics such as «foreignness» and migration, the individual and society, and reality versus utopia. This exhibition is organised in cooperation with the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and it furthers the Art Road to Peace project of the German Friends and Patrons of the Tel Aviv Museum. In this project, Jewish and Muslim children will have the opportunity to approach each other in joint art classes.
Catalogue: Inner Landscapes. Israeli Contemporary Photography Bernheimer Fine Art Photography. 15 € 10 11 Exhibitions Exhibitions
«No Image» Divine Poetry Koran Suras on Beechwood Tablets Friday, 27 August – Sunday, 10 October 2010 Vernissage: Thursday, 26 August 2010, 19 h Saturday, 16 October 2010 – whiteBOX, Grafinger Straße 6, 81671 Munich Monday, 01 November 2010 Info: Tel. 0049-[0]170/658 26 15 St. Markus Church Opening hours: Thu–Fri: 17 h-21 h, Sat–Sun: 15 h-20 h Gabelsberger Straße 6, 80333 Munich Admission: 3 € Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-54 90 27-0 www.evstadtakademie.de No Image displays contemporary art productions from different cultural Opening hours: backgrounds, focusing on the implementation of religious bans on Sat, 16 Oct. 2010: Munich Museum Night images and image-making. Central topics include the blurry boundary Sun, 17 Oct. 2010, 19 h: Vernissage and Reading between symbols, icons and images; the handling of image worship or Mon, 18 Oct.– Mon, 1 Nov. 2010: every day 12-16 h its negation, the destruction of the Bamiyan statues, as well as orna- Free admission, donations welcome mentation, script, and calligraphy. The discussions of such topics will fos- ter dialogue about distinctions, parallels, intersections, and similarities This exhibition considers 14 large beechwood tab - between distinct religious and lets lettered with Koranic suras by the artist and cultural communities. The ex- calligrapher Shahid Alam. Shahid Alam was born hibition will be accompanied in Lahore/Pakistan and has been working as a by a catalogue. freelance artist in Aachen since 1994. Idea: Gotlind Timmermanns The suras calligraphed in ink onto the tablets ren- Organiser: whiteBOX e.V. der Koranic passages which display affinities with Framework programme: passages from the Old and New Testaments. Shahid 19 September 2010 | 12 h Alam does not imitate an Arab style of writing but, Lecture over the years, has developed a distinct personal Images and Tattoos in Islam. style based on his experience. From the Middle Ages to Organiser: Munich Protestant Academy, St. Markus the Digital Age publishing company C.H. Beck, Eugen Biser Foundation DR. ALMIR IBRIC Framework programme: see p. 31-33 Further events Tours with the artist: [such as an Ebru workshop with Tülay Akcan Wed 20 | Fri 22 | Wed 27 | Fri 29 Oct guided tours, readings 15 h, Admission: 5 € discussions and concerts]: see to www.whitebox-ev.de 12 13 Architecture Architecture
Series of Lectures 07 Oct 2010 | 20 h Masterpieces of Islamic Architecture The Courtyard Mosques: Ibn-Tulun, Al-Azhar, Mezquita VOLKER HENNIG and the Umayyad Mosque
Thursday, 07 October 2010 – Thursday, 03 February 2011 14 Oct 2010 | 20 h The Construction of Domed mosques Gasteig, Lecture Hall 0.117 from the earliest examples to Rosenheimer Straße 5, 81667 Munich the masterpieces of Mimar Sinan Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-44 47 80-50/-52 www.mvhs.de/kunstgeschichte 21 Oct 2010 | 20 h Admission: 6 € Iwan Mosques – Masterpieces of Architecture in Iran, Turkestan Mosques, palaces, madrassas, bazaars, caravanseries – the splendor and and India diversity of Islamic architecture is truly impressive. During ten evening 18 Nov 2010 | 20 h meetings, participants will be introduced to outstanding masterpieces The Palaces of Alhambra, of Islamic architecture through an array of images, while learning the Madinat al-Zahra and Mshatta. significant facts about their construction and gaining insight into their 25 Nov 2010 | 20 h respective cultural histories. The Alcázar [Sevilla], Topkapi & Organisers: Munich Adult Education Centre [Münchner Volkshochschule] Azem Palaces in collaboration with the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich 02 Dec 2010 | 20 h The Palaces of the Rajas and Maharajas in India
13 Jan 2011 | 20 h Madrassas – Places of Study in Damascus and Aleppo
20 Jan 2011 | 20 h Madrassas – Places of Study in Isfahan, Samarkand and Chiva
27 Jan 2011 | 20 h Bazaars and Caravanserais in Cairo, Damascus and Aleppo
03 Feb 2011 | 20 h Bazaars and Caravanserais from Istanbul to India Organiser: MunichProtestantAcademy similar projects? building characteristics shouldbeconsideredupon theinceptionof architectural design anditssocialimplications? What newandunique How doescontemporary mosqueconstructionaddress bothinnovative and modernaesthetics. construction. Featuring an opendome,thisbuildingblendstraditional signed bytheCologne-basedarchitect Paul Böhmiscurrentlyunder Another distinctivestructure,the CologneIslamicCulturalCentre,de- designedtheplanof thestructure. gin, was inauguratedinPenzberg. AlenJasarevic,anarchitectofBosnianori- In 2005, oneofthemostarchitecturallyinnovative ofGermany‘smosques 6 Admission: 7| www.evstadtakademie.deInfo: Tel. 9027-0, 0049-[0]89-54 Evangelische StadtakademieMünchen,Herzog-Wilhelm-Straße 24, 80331 Munich Thursday, 07 October2010, 19 h Augsburg Jasarevic Architekten Islamic Forum Architect ofthePenzberg ALEN JASAREVIC Cologne Architekturbüro Paul Böhm Islamic CulturalCentre Architect oftheCologne PAUL BÖHM in Germany Contemporary MosqueArchitecture «Something EntirelyNewandUnique» Debate onArchitecture € [reduced],freeadmissionforstudents Architecture 14 Organiser: MunichEducationCentre [MünchnerBildungswerk] We willmeetatplatform 27 ofMunich CentralStation at9:15 am,traintoPenzberg. rounding theprocess ofculturalintegration. andgeneralissuessur- regarding Muslim lifeintheOberlandregion willengage inadiscussion followed byrefreshments andparticipants cusing onthebuilding’smodern architecturalfeatures.The tourwillbe Ms. GönülYerli with atourofthemosquefo- willprovideparticipants que iswidelycelebrated. sion, debateandevencriticismin manyurbancentres,Penzberg’s mos- thoroughfare. Althoughmosque construction continuestoincitediscus- mosque designedbyAlenJasarevic situateddirectlyonthecity’smain Since autumn2005, thecityofPenzberg hasenjoyedanunusualnew Admission: 14 Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-54 58 05-0,www.muenchner-bildungswerk.de Saturday, 23 October2010, 9:15 h–approx. 15:30 h DeputyDirectorofthePenzberg IslamicForumGÖNÜL YERLI, The Penzberg Mosque Educational Trip 15 € incl.trainticketandsnack
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Lecture Series of Films The Crescent and the Gods Le grand voyage Islamic Sites in India Journey to Islamic Worlds CHRISTIAN KRUG Wednesday, 08 September 2010 – Wednesday, 16 February 2011 Tuesday, 14 December 2010, 20 h Filmmuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum Gasteig, Lecture Hall 0.117, Rosenheimer Straße 5, 81667 Munich St.-Jakobs-Platz 1, 80331 Munich Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-44 47 80-10/51, www.mvhs.de/unterwegs Ticket reservation: 0049-[0]89-233-964 50 Admission: 6 € www.filmmuseum-muenchen.de Admission: 4 | 5 € Muslim conquerors erected impressive monuments and religious sites in Hindu India which continue to be a source of fascination. This lecture Beginning in September 2010 and continuing until February 2011, the uncovers the most important pilgrimage sites, tombs, and palaces of the Filmmuseum will feature a series of 20 films from various genres which Islamic Indian subcontinent, considering both widely known structures will take their audiences into the most remote regions of the Islamic and those known only to insiders. At the same time, participants will world. The films to be shown couldn’t be more diverse and together learn more about the history of Muslim India [home to 140 million Mus- form a cinematic kaleidoscope that addresses ongoing political tensions lims and home to the world’s third largest Muslim and themes such as modernisation, globalisation, violence and perceived popu lation] and the complex, continuing conflict be - departures from tradition, the power of reason, and life and poetry in t ween Islam and Hinduism. our contemporary global world. Organiser: Munich Adult Education Centre Organisers: Munich Museum of Film [Münchner Filmmuseum] [Münchner Volkshochschule] Munich Adult Education Centre [Münchner Volkshochschule] 18 19
27 Oct 2010 | 21 h 15 Dec 2010 | 21 h Iraq: The Song of Lakar Pelangi Film the Missing Men The Rainbow Troops Film Iraq 2005 Indonesia 2008 D: Layth Abdulami, 54 min D: Riri Riza, 124 min OV with English subtitles OV with English subtitles Programme of the Series of Films 29 Sep 2010 | 21 h and Le grand voyage – Al Massir 22 Dec 2010 | 19 h Underexposure Journey to Islamic Worlds Destiny Mohammed, see p. 17 Germany/Iraq 2005 the Messenger of God France/Egypt 1997 D: Oday Rasheed, 74 min D: Youssef Chahine,135 min OV with German subtitles Kuwait/Lebanon/Libya/ OV with German subtitles Morocco/Pakistan/UK 1976 08 Sep 2010 | 21 h 03 Nov 2010 | 21 h D: Moustapha Akkad, 177 min 6 Oct 2010 OV with English subtitles Le grand voyage Marmoulak Ea’adat khalq The Great Journey The Lizard 19 Jan 2011 | 21 h Recycle Morocco/France 2004 Iran 2004 Der Weg nach Mekka: D: Ismaël Ferroukhi, 108 min Jordan/NL/D/CH/USA 2007 D: Karmal Tabrisi Kamal, 115 min Die Reise des Muhammed Asad OV with German subtitles D: Mahmoud al Massad, 80 min OV with English subtitles OV with German subtitles Way to Mecca: 15 Sep 2010 | 21 h 10 Nov 2010 | 21 h The Journey of Muhammed Asad 13 Oct 2010 | 21 h Bab’Aziz Im Bazar der Geschlechter Austria/France 2008 Âshûrâ: This Blood The Dance of the Wind In the Bazaar of the Sexes D: Georg Misch, 92 min Spilled in My Veins OV with German subtitles Tunisia/Iran/CH/D/F/UK/H 2005 Austria 2009 D: Nacer Khemir, 98 min Lebanon 2002 D: Sudabeh Mortezai, 90 min 26 Jan 2011 | 21 h OV with German subtitles D: Jalal Toufic, 80 min OV with English subtitles OV with English subtitles Saratan 22 Sep 2010 | 21 h 24 Nov 2010 | 21 h Kyrgyzstan 2005 20 Oct 2010 | 21 h Moolaadé Osama D: Ernest Abdyjaparov, 84 min Takva OV with German subtitles Protection Afghanistan 2003 The Fear of God Senegal/France/Burkina Faso/ D: Siddiq Barmak, 83 min 02 Feb 2011 | 21 h Cameroon/Morocco/Tunisia 2004 Turkey 2006 OV with German subtitles D: Ousmane Sembene, 124 min D: Özer Kiziltan, 96 min A Jihad for Love OV with German subtitles OV with German subtitles 01 Dec 2010 | 21 h USA/UK/F/D/AUS 2007 Mr. and Mrs. Iyer D: Parvez Sharma, 81 min OV with English subtitles India 2002 D: Aparna Sen, 120 min 09 Feb 2011 | 21 h OV with English subtitles Na Putu 08 Dec 2010 | 21 h On the Path Korankinder Bosnia-Herzegovina/Germany 2009 Koran Children D: Jasmila Zbanic,100 min OV with German subtitles Germany 2009 D: Shaheen Dill-Riaz, 86 min 16 Feb 2011 | 21 h OV with German subtitles Persepolis France 2007 D: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, 96min OV with German subtitles 20 21
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Panel Discussion Cinema and the Koran Modern Cinema Set in and about Islamic Societies IRIT NEIDHARDT, Film Producer and Head of the film distribution company mec film AMIN FARZANEFAR, Islamic Studies Scholar and Film Journalist VIOLA SHAFIK, Film Studies Scholar from Cairo Host: FATIMA ABDOLLAHYAN, Filmmaker and Journalist
Lecture with Film Clips Sunday, 24 October 2010, 18 h Arab Shorts Gasteig, Black Box, Rosenheimer Straße 5, 81667 Munich Independent Arab Cinema Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-480 06-62 20, www.mvhs.de/offene-akademie Breaking New Ground Admission: 6 € MARCEL SCHWIERIN, Curator and Filmmaker, Berlin Many Muslim countries have recently seen a rise in a new cinematic Tuesday, 05 October 2010, 20 h genre which crosses conventional borders and unites various cinematic Gasteig, Lecture Hall of the Library currents, including experimental film. What's new is a heightened striving Rosenheimer Straße 5, 81667 Munich for personal expression of content and aesthetics. Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-480 06-62 20 www.mvhs.de/offene-akademie The panel, Cinema and the Koran, will deal with the directors and the Admission: 5 € distinct cinematic culture of these regions, in addition to the resistance against the reception of such films in Germany. Independent Arab cinema is alive! Last year, eleven curators from the Organisers: Munich Adult Education Centre [Münchner Volkshochschule] Arab world accepted an invitation by the Goethe Institute in Cairo to and the Munich Museum of Film compile short film programmes. During the Arabshorts.net Festival in Cairo in December 2009 more than 50 short-feature, documentary, ani- mated, and experimental films were screened, reflecting the rich and dynamic cinematic culture of the Arab world. Marcel Schwierin, Project Director of Arabshorts 2009, will discuss current developments in Arab cinema and present highlights from the project.
Organisers: Goethe Institute in Cairo, Munich Adult Education Centre [Münchner Volkshochschule] and the Munich Museum of Film 22 23
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Series of Events Series of Events Characteristics and Views Characteristics and Views of European Islam of European Islam
Panel discussion Lecture Muslim Life in Germany – Religious Law and Human Rights – Perspectives for Munich Muslims in Democratic Constitutional States DR. SONJA HAUG, Professor for Empirical PROF. DR. HEINER BIELEFELDT Social Studies at the University of Regensburg Chair in Human Rights and Human Rights Policy at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg GÖNÜL YERLI, Vice President of the Penzberg Islamic Forum Monday, 18 October 2010, 19 h
Wednesday, 06 October 2010, 19 h Gasteig, Lecture Hall of the library Rosenheimer Straße 5, 81667 Munich Gasteig, Lecture Hall of the library Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-480 06-62 20 Rosenheimer Straße 5, 81667 Munich www.mvhs.de/offene-akademie Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-480 06-62 20 Admission: 6 € www.mvhs.de/offene-akademie Admission: 6 € «I think of enlightenment – and human rights – as an unfinished «The Munich Muslims’ strong desire for a mosque in a central location learning process.» Heiner Bielefeldt deals with the highly controversial in Munich ... is understandable,» is a statement found in the unanimous question of whether or not Islamic law is compatible with western, motion carried by all party groups in the Munich City Council regarding demo cratic legal systems. Can Muslims accept the claim that the Ger- the planned Munich Centre for Islam in Europe. Who are the Muslims man constitution is applicable in relation to religious law? What do living in Munich and in Germany and what motivates and moves them? human rights mean in a society dependent upon immigration? Sonja Haug will provide a nuanced overview of Muslim life in Germany, Organiser: Munich Adult Education Centre [Münchner Volkshochschule] while Gönül Yerli will present the plans for the Munich Centre for Islam in Europe.
Organiser: Munich Adult Education Centre [Münchner Volkshochschule] 24 25
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Series of Events Series of Events Characteristics and Views Characteristics and Views of European Islam of European Islam
Lecture Panel discussion Progressive, Revolutionary, Interpreted Literally? Freedom of Religion and Tolerance: The Legacy of Reform Trends among Muslim Thinkers the Enlightenment and the Debate about Islam in Germany LUDWIG AMMANN, Journalist and Scholar of Islamic Studies, Freiburg LAMYA KADDOR, Scholar of Islamic Studies, Religious Education PROF. DR. ARMIN NASSEHI, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 19 h Moderator: DR. MATTHIAS DROBINSKI, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich Thursday, 02 December 2010, 19 h Gasteig, Lecture Hall of the library Rosenheimer Straße 5, 81667 Munich Gasteig, Lecture Hall of the library Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-480 06-62 20 Rosenheimer Straße 5, 81667 Munich www.mvhs.de/offene-akademie Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-480 06-62 20 Admission: 6 € www.mvhs.de/offene-akademie Admission: 6 € Does Islam lack enlightenment and rationality? Is it generally opposed to democracy and modernity? Muslim reformers throughout the world Critics of Islam, and critics of these critics, argue with powerful eloquence are currently discussing the present and future situation of Islam, as well about the role of Islam in modern societies. What does this discussion as its correct interpretation and place in modern societies. Ludwig Am- tell us about German society? Why is a minority such a source of concern mann will lecture on diversity and the broadness of this intra-Islamic for the majority? Is Salomon Korn right when he asserts that Germans debate which ranges from the modernisation of Islam to the islamisa- are too weak to accept «the foreign»? What do the basic principles of tion of the modern age. the Enlightenment – such as freedom of religion and tolerance – really mean, and what do these values imply regarding our relationship with Organiser: Munich Adult Education Centre [Münchner Volkshochschule] Muslims?
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Cabaret, Lecture & Discussion Panel Discussion Falling in Love Deutschstunde: Utopias of Peaceful Coexistence with Turkish Language and Culture [in English with simultaneous translation into German] SINASI DIKMEN, Turkish-German Cabaret Artist, PROFESSOR JULIAN NIDA-RÜMELIN, Philosophy, LMU Munich Director of the renowned Frankfurt Cabaret Theater Die KäS AVI PRIMOR, Diplomat, University of Herzliya DR. ÖZGÜR SAVASCI, Research assistant in the Turkish and Ottoman Department at the LMU Munich PROFESSOR DAVID B. RUDERMAN, Modern Jewish History Allianz Visiting Professor at the LMU Munich Tuesday, 12 October 2010, 19:30 h SUSSAN BABAIE [Ph.D.] History of Islamic Art, Allianz Visiting Professor at the LMU Munich Gasteig, Black Box Rosenheimer Straße 5, 81667 Munich Thursday, 11 November 2010, 20 h Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-480 06-62 20 www.mvhs.de/offene-akademie Literaturhaus München Admission: 12 | 9 € [reduced] Salvatorplatz 1, 3rd floor, auditorium Tickets: 0049-[0]89-29 19 34-27 After providing fascinating insight into the Turkish language by Özgür Info: www.lichterkette.de Savasci, Sinasi Dikmen will present scenes from his cabaret programme entitled Islam für Anfänger [Islam for Beginners]. Dikmen was born in Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian students study together in the Trilateral a small Turkish village and has founded the first German-language Centre for European Studies at the private University of Herzliya near Turkish cabaret, where he confronts prejudice, misunderstanding and Tel Aviv. Such «lived utopias» do not only exist in the Middle East. Are integration in a «literary, philosophical and anecdotal way» [German they ambassadors for a world without weapons and without mental newspaper FAZ]. He has been awarded the Deutsche Klein- and psychological obstacles? kunstpreis [German cabaret award]. The event is thematically connected with the symposium of the Allianz Organiser: Munich Adult Education Centre [Münchner Volkshochschule] Visiting Professors for Jewish and Islamic studies, The Other in Near in collaboration with the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich Eastern and Jewish Studies. [11/12 Nov 2010]. All proceeds will go to IDIZEM e.V. Interkulturelles Dialogzentrum München.
Organisers: Lichterkette e.V. and the Stiftung Literaturhaus München. This particular Deutschstunde is supported by the Allianz Cultural Foundation and the Allianz Direct Help Foundation. 28 29
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Calendar Calendar
27 Aug 2010 No Image Beginning of the Exhibition 10 06 Nov 2010 Remembering the Future Dance Project 54 09-11 Sep 2010 Sense of Self Dance Performance 52 10 Nov 2010 Im Bazar der Geschlechter Film 19 08 Sep 2011 Le grand voyage Film 19 11 Nov 2010 «Deutschstunde» Panel Discussion 27 10 Sep 2010 Inner Landscapes Beginning of the Exhibition 8 14/15 Nov 2010 Walid Raad Exhibition Walk-Through 44 15 Sep 2010 Bab’Aziz: The Dance of the Wind Film 18 16 Nov 2010 The Friday Mosque of Ishafan Lecture 39 16 Sep 2010 Miracles of Creation Beginning of the Exhibition 7 18 Nov 2010 Islamic Architecture Series of Lectures 12 17 Sep 2010 Future of Tradition Beginning of the Exhibition 2 18 Nov 2010 The Turkish-Islamic Society Guided Tour 30 19 Sep 2010 Images and Tattoos in Islam Lecture 10 18 Nov 2010 Corpus Coranicum Lecture 34 22 Sep 2010 Moolaadé: Protection Film 18 23/25/27 Nov 2010 The Many Shades of the Koran Reading 35 29 Sep 2010 Al Massir: Destiny Film 18 24 Nov 2010 Osama Film 19 29 Sep 2010 The Aura of Alif Lecture 50 24 Nov 2010 Reform Trends Among Muslim Thinkers Lecture 24 05 Oct 2010 Arab Shorts – Arab Cinema Lecture 20 25 Nov 2010 Islamic Architecture Series of Lectures 12 06 Oct 2010 Ea’adat khalq: Recycle Film 18 27 Nov 2010 Ahura, Sufi Poetry and Mystical Songs Concert 47 06 Oct 2010 Muslim Life in Germany Panel Discussion 22 30 Nov 2010 Masterpieces and Mass Production Lecture 40 07 Oct 2010 Islamic Architecture Series of Lectures 12 01 Dec 2010 Mr. and Mrs. Iyer Film 19 07 Oct 2010 «Something Entirely New …» Architectural Debate 14 02 Dec 2010 Islamic Architecture Series of Lectures 12 12 Oct 2010 Falling in Love with the Turkish … Cabaret, lecture 26 02 Dec 2010 Freedom of Religion … Panel Discussion 25 13 Oct 2010 Crossing Musical Borders Concert 45 04 Dec 2010 Modernity in Translation Symposium 41 13 Oct 2010 Âshûrâ: This Blood Spilled in My Veins Film 18 08 Dec 2010 Korankinder: Koran Children Film 19 14 Oct 2010 Islamic Architecture Series of Lectures 12 09 –12 Dec 2010 Sexy Zuppel Puppe Dance Solo 55 16 Oct 2010 Divine Poetry Beginning of the Exhibition 11 14 Dec 2010 Colours of a Foreign World Lecture 40 16 Oct 2010 Munich Museum Night 14 Dec 2010 Islamic sites in India Lecture 16 see to www.muenchen.de/museumsnacht 15 Dec 2010 Lakar Pelangi: The Rainbow Troops Film 19 17 Oct 2010 Strict and Poetical Reading, Concert 31 15 Dec 2010 Arabic Calligraphy in European Dress Lecture 51 18 Oct 2010 Religious Law and Human Rights Lecture 23 22 Dec 2010 Mohammed, the Messenger of God Film 19 19 Oct 2010 The Concept of the Masterpiece Lecture 39 11 Jan 2011 The Grand Duke of Tuscany’s Gift Lecture 40 19 Oct 2010 Prohibition of Images in Islam? Lecture 37 13 Jan 2011 Islamic Architecture Series of Lectures 12 20 Oct 2010 Takva: The Fear of God Film 18 19 Jan 2011 Der Weg nach Mekka: Way to Mecca Film 19 20 Oct 2010 In Search of an Arab Modernity Lecture 38 20 Jan 2011 Islamic Architecture Series of Lectures 12 21 Oct 2010 Islamic Architecture Series of Lectures 12 22 Jan 2011 Gold on Lapis Lazuli Musical Reading 48 22 Oct 2010 The Aura of Alif Beginning of the Exhibition 4 25 Jan 2011 The Bahram Cˇubina Cycle Lecture 40 23 Oct 2010 The Penzberg Mosque Educational Trip 15 26 Jan 2011 Saratan Film 19 24 Oct 2010 Cinema and the Koran Panel Discussion 21 26 Jan 2011 Text and Aesthetics of the Koran Lecture 36 25 Oct 2010 Comparing the Bible to the Koran Dialog Lecture 32 27 Jan 2011 Islamic Architecture Series of Lectures 12 27 Oct 2010 Song of the Missing Men | Underexposure Films 19 02 Feb 2011 A Jihad for Love Film 19 27 Oct 2010 Arabic Script and Calligraphy Lecture 51 03 Feb 2011 Islamic Architecture Series of Lectures 12 28/29 Oct 2010 Luna Park Interdisciplinary Production 53 05 Feb 2011 Falling in Love with Arab … Lecture, Reading 49 29 Oct 2010 Koran Reception during the Reformation Lecture 33 08 Feb 2011 Islamic Book Ornamentation Lecture 40 30 Oct 2010 Al Gromer Khan, Indian Music Concert 46 09 Feb 2011 Na putu: On the Path Film 19 02 Nov 2010 The Object and Modernity Lecture 39 10 Feb 2011 Oya Lecture 43 03 Nov 2010 Marmoulak: The Lizard Film 19 16 Feb 2011 Persepolis Film 19 30 31
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Guided Tour and Discussion Reading Concert Vernissage The Turkish-Islamic Society Strict and Poetical of München Pasing [Pasing Mosque] The Koran – VOLKAN TÜRLÜ The New Translation by Hartmut Bobzin Thursday, 18 November 2010, 19 h PROF. DR. HARTMUT BOBZIN Pasinger Moschee Professor for Islamic Studies, University of Erlangen Planegger Straße 18 a, 81241 Munich Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-82 00 05 12 BENJAMIN IDRIZ, Imam, Penzberg Islamic Forum www.mvhs.de/west SHAHID ALAM, Artist and Calligrapher, Aachen Admission: 5 € DR. CLAUDIA OTT, Orientalist, Translator and Musician [nay/reed-pipe] Since May 1999, the mosque and cultural centre on Planegger Straße ROMAN BUNKA, Musician [oud/lute] has been home to the Muslim community. The building consists of prayer rooms, two centres [one for women and one for youths], assem- Sunday, 17 October 2010, 19 h bly rooms, and rooms for Islamic rituals for the dead. The prayer hall St. Markus Church features a luminous dome and is ornamented with precious mosaics. Gabelsberger Straße 6, 80333 München Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-54 90 27-0 The tour will commence with a short introduction to Islam. Afterwards, www.evstadtakademie.de participants will have the opportunity to discuss with members of the Admission: 10 | 8 € [reduced] Muslim community over Turkish black tea, which will be served in the community's tearoom. The aesthetics and the poetics of the Koran are discussed following readings of Koranic texts in both German and Arabic. Hartmut Bobzin’s Organisers: Munich Adult Education Centre new translation strives for philological accuracy while maintaining the [Münchner Volkshochschule, western city districts] The Turkish-Islamic society of München Pasing beauty and uniqueness of the original. The readings are accompanied [Türkisch-Islamische-Gemeinde zu München-Pasing e.V.] by traditional Arab music and an exposition on Divine Poetry. The pre- sentation is accompanied by the exhibition of 14 beechwood tablets bearing suras linking Judaism, Christianity and Islam lettered by the cal- ligrapher Shahid Alam.
Organisers: Munich Protestant Academy, St. Markus publishing company C.H. Beck, Eugen Biser Foundation Framework programme for the exhibition Divine Poetry, see p. 11 32 33
Koran Koran
Dialogue Lecture Lecture Same Topic – Different Messages? Koran Reception during the Reformation Period Comparing the Bible to the Koran PROF. DR. HARTMUT BOBZIN PD DR. STEFAN WIMMER, LMU, Friends of Abraham Society Professor for Islamic Studies, University of Erlangen JUTTA HÖCHT-STÖHR, Director of the Munich Protestant Academy Friday, 29 October 2010, 19:30 h
Monday, 25 October 2010, 19:30 h St Markus Church, Gabelsberger Straße 6, 80333 München St. Markus Church, Gabelsberger Straße 6, 80333 München Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-54 90 27-0, www.evstadtakademie.de Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-54 90 27-0, www.evstadtakademie.de Admission: 7|6 € [reduced] Admission: 7|6 € [reduced] The Ottoman Wars in Europe and the first occupation of Vienna in 1529 The Bible and the Koran often address the same issues or tell stories brought about the first climax in early modern discourses about Islam. about the same people. Do they do so with the same or with different This lecture considers how Luther, Melanchthon, and other reformers intentions? interacted intensively and critically with the Koran. However, their cri- tiques were based on a much older Latin translation published in Basel What is their intention when describing the creation of the earth? What in 1543 at Luther’s request. Indeed, Luther himself intervened when the roles did Abraham, Moses, and Joseph, the most important characters City Council initially disallowed the publication of this «unchristian», and in the Torah, play? And what does the Koran say about Mary and Jesus so-called heretical book. versus the Christian Bible? We will pay special attention to the various dividing and uniting aspects between the traditions of the three religions Organisers: Munich Protestant Academy, St. Markus Framework programme for the exhibition Divine Poetry, see p. 11 with reference to the examples of Koranic passages calligraphed onto the beechwood tablets displayed in the Divine Poetry exhibition, and their biblical counterparts.
Organisers: Munich Protestant Academy, St. Markus Framework programme for the exhibition Divine Poetry, see p. 11 34 35
Koran Koran
Lecture Reading Corpus Coranicum The Many Shades of the Koran On the Way to a STEFAN WEIDNER, Author and Scholar of Islamic Studies Critical Reappraisal of the Koran accompanied by an actor MICHAEL MARX, M.A. Freie Universität Berlin Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 19 h Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München, Lecture Hall, 1st floor, Thursday, 18 November 2010, 19 h Maximilianstraße 42, 80538 Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Friedrich-von-Gärtner-Saal Ludwigstraße 16, 80539 Munich Thursday, 25 November 2010, 19 h Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-286 38-24 29 Haus der Kunst www.bsb-muenchen.de in the exhibition The Future of Tradition – Tradition of the Future Free admission Prinzregentenstraße 1, 80538 Munich
The lecture presents the project Corpus Coranicum Saturday, 27. November 2010, 19 h of the Academy of Sciences of Berlin-Brandenburg, The venue will be announced initiated in 2007. Info: www.litmuc.de Among other initiatives, the project includes the digitalisation of the Gotthelf-Bergsträßer photo- To celebrate the publication of three new German Koran translations, a g ra phic archive of early Koran manuscripts, which selection of suras will be recited in order to illustrate and reflect upon was compiled before the Second World War in Mu- the variety of poetic and devotional modes of experiencing the Koran. This nich. The endeavour defines itself as the successor reading is part of the forum:autoren, an author's forum directed by Ilija of the Koran commission of the Bavarian Academy Trojanow within the Munich Literature Festival [Literaturfest München]. of Sciences active before the war. Organiser: Munich Literature Festival [Literaturfest München forum:autoren] Organiser: Bavarian State Library Framework programme for the exhibition The Wonders of Creation see p. 6 36 37
Koran Arts
Lecture and Discussion Lecture Text and Aesthetics of the Koran Is there a Prohibition of Images in Islam? DR. HABIL. NAVID KERMANI, Orientalist and Author, Cologne PROF. DR. SILVIA NAEF, Art Historian and Scholar of PROF. DR. ANGELIKA NEUWIRTH, Arabic Studies, FU Berlin Islamic Studies, Arabic Studies, University of Geneva
Wednesday, 26 January 2011, 19 h Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 20 h
Evangelische Stadtakademie München Gasteig, Lecture Hall of the library Herzog-Wilhelm-Straße 24, 80331 Munich Rosenheimer Straße 5, 81667 Munich Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-54 90 27-0, www.evstadtakademie.de Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-44 47 80-50/-52 Admission: 7 | 6 € [reduced], admission free for students www.mvhs.de/kunstgeschichte Admission: 6 € In his book Gott ist schön. Das ästhetische Erleben des Koran [God is beautiful. The Aesthetic Experience of the Koran], Navid Kermani ex- «The Islamic religion, as well as cultures in the plains how musical recitations of the Koran serve as a primary aesthetic Muslim world, are often wrongfully accused of experience and how they often function as a starting point for a fasci- being opposed to images,» Silvia Naef explains in nating intellectual journey. her book on images and the prohibition of images in Islam. Starting with the Koran and the teaching He will be joined by Angelika Neuwirth, a scholar of Arab Studies who of the Sunnah, she will briefly focus on Islamic arts is the head of a large-scale research project called Corpus Coranicum. in previous centuries before turning to an explana- This project aims at documenting the text of the Koran in its complex tion of the current perspectives of Islamic scholars traditional form supplemented by a comprehensive commentary to and social developments in recent years, providing facilitate its interpretation against the background an intriguing perspective on a prejudiced and highly of its historic evolution. misunderstood subject.
Organiser: Munich Protestant Academy Organisers: Munich Adult Education Centre [Münchner Volkshochschule], Munich Protestant Academy Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich 38 39
Arts Arts
Lecture Series New Perspectives on Masterpieces of Art on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Exhibition Masterpieces of Muhammedan Art in Munich Tuesday, 19 October 2010 – Tuesday, 08 February 2011
Ludwig Maximilians University, Main building, Lecture Hall M 014 Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich Lecture Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-21 80-24 33, [email protected] www.naher-osten.lmu.de In Search of an Arab Modernity Free admission The Evolution of the Fine Arts in Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq PROF. DR. SILVIA NAEF, Art Historian and Scholar The lecture series entitled The Cultures of Islam – Forming a Mosaic of Islamic Studies, Arabic Studies, University of Geneva will be offered during the winter semester 2010/2011 and will consist Wednesday, 20 October 2010, 20 h of eight lectures by art historians from museums and universities about select masterpieces of Islamic art. The lecturers will present works of Evangelische Stadtakademie München their choice – some of them were already exhibited in 1910 – from a Herzog-Wilhelm-Straße 24, 80331 Munich monographic, innovative perspective and will seek to introduce the Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-54 90 27-0, www.evstadtakademie.de audience to the fascinating aesthetic variety that constitutes the arts of Admission: 7|6 € [reduced], free admission for students the Islamic world. th The modernisation of the 19 century that took place throughout «the Organiser: Munich Centre for Islamic Studies [MZIS] Orient», witnessed the introduction of European art forms that gradually replaced the traditional arts predominant in these regions. This lecture will elucidate how, during this initial phase of intersection, the question Programme of modernity was rarely addressed in the Arab world. It was only in the 1940s when the ramifications of modernisation became a public issue 19 Oct 2010 | 19.15 h strongly characterised by national or nationalistic overtones. «The Best Things» The Concept of the Masterpiece in the 1910 Exhibition Organiser: Munich Protestant Academy, Open Academy of on Masterpieces of Muhammedan Art in Munich the Munich Adult Education Centre [Münchner Volkshochschule] DR. EVA TROELENBERG, Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin/KHI Florence
02 Nov 2010 | 19.15 h The Object and Modernity 40 41
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Continuation of the programme [Turkish Chamber] in Dresden New Perspectives on Masterpieces of Art 25 Jan 2011 | 19.15 h see p. 39 The Bahram Cˇubina Cycle in a Safavid Shahnameh Manuscript DR. HANS-CASPAR GRAF PROF. DR. AVINOAM SHALEM, LMU VON BOTHMER Symposium Munich/KHI Florence Saarland University Saarbrücken Modernity in Translation? 16 Nov 2010 | 19.15 h The Friday Mosque of Isfahan 08 Feb 2011 | 19.15 h PROF. DR. CHRISTOPH BALME, LMU Munich A Masterpiece Across Generations The «Uninteresting» Element PROF. DR. BURCU DOGRAMACI, LMU Munich PROF. GLENN PENNY [PH.D.], University of Iowa PROF. DR. LORENZ KORN of Islamic Book Ornamentation PROF. KIRSTEN SCHEID [PH.D.], American University of Beirut Universitiy of Bamberg Calligraphy and Gilding as Art PROF. DR. AVINOAM SHALEM, LMU Munich Historical Instruments for Dating PROF. DR. WENDY SHAW, University of Bern 30 Nov 2010 | 19.15 h Manuscripts and Miniatures Masterpieces and Mass Production PROF. DR. CLAUS-PETER HAASE Saturday, 04 December 2010, 9.30 -16 h Questions and Concepts Former Director of the Museum Concerning the Reorganisation of of Islamic Art Berlin Centre of Advanced Studies, Seestraße 13, 80802 München the Berlin Museum of Islamic Arts Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-21 80-32 43 [email protected] DR. STEFAN WEBER, Director of Free admission. Mainly in English the Berlin Museum of Islamic Arts
14 Dec 2010 | 19.15 h The investigation of artistic and cultural diversity has been undertaken Colours of a Foreign World within discrete frames and disciplines towards the understanding of the Gayumars Holds Court. semantic specificity of works, writers, artists and genres or schools, and, Shanameh of Shah Tahmasp more importantly, within a nationally oriented paradigm. What art studies [around 1500] have not yet attempted to do is to explain how the global phenomenon PROF. EM. DR. BARBARA FINSTER of Modernism came to be. What were the factors that led to a particular University of Bamberg set of mainly Western, artistic practices being exported to and established in entirely diverse and distinct cultural environments? How did these 11 Jan 2011 | 19.15 h processes of transposition affect the new host cultures and how did The Grand Duke of Tuscany’s Gift they in turn transform the practices being exported? This conference from 1587 in the Turkish Chamber aims to provide several corrective insights into existing historiographical HOLGER SCHUCKELT principles and research agendas by re-thinking modernism as an artistic Curator of the Türckische Cammer practice and modernisation as a political, economic and institutional manifestation. 42 43
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Programme of the Symposium Lecture Modernity in Translation? See p. 41 Oya 10:00 h From Ottoman Fashion to Turkish Folk Art Introduction GÉRARD J. MAIZOU, Journalist and Photographer, Eichenau 10:15 h DR. KATHRIN MÜLLER, Orientalist, Eichenau Unbounded Landscapes: Secular Modernism and Subversive Nationalism? Thursday, 10 February 2011, 19 h KIRSTEN SCHEID Ludwig Maximilians University, Main Building, Lecture Hall M 014 11:00 h Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich The Cairo Opera House and Info: Tel. 0049-[0]861/696 56, www.freunde-islamischer-kunst.de the Beginnings of Global Theatre Free admission CHRISTOPHER BALME 11:45 h A hundred years ago, wearing oya [needle lace] was highly fashionable An Oriental as Orientalist? throughout the Ottoman Empire. Today, making oya remains a popular The Painter Osman Hamdi Bey folk art in Turkey. from Istanbul [lecture in German] th BURCU DOGRAMACI Oya arose in the early 19 century, displaying colourful blossoms in fine needle lace. This technique quickly spread across the whole Ottoman 12:30 h Lunch Empire and served as ornamentation for different textiles. Today, oya is associated with folk religion and ancient myths. Oya is worn everywhere 14:00 h and can be bought in bazaars and even on the internet. This lecture is Cubism on the Bosporus WENDY SHAW an introduction to the Oya exhibition in the State Museum of Ethnology Munich [April 2011 until March 2012]. 14:45 h Surrealism on the Nile Organisers: Society of Friends of Islamic Art AVINOAM SHALEM and Culture, German-Turkish Society of Bavaria 15:30 h Concluding Remarks GLENN PENNY
Afterwards visit to the exhibition The Future of Tradition – The Tradition of Future in the House of Art [Haus der Kunst], see p. 2 Organiser: LMU Munich [Faculty of History and the Arts] Concept and organisation: Prof. Dr. Christoph Balme and Prof. Dr. Avinoam Shalem 44 45 Arts Music Lyric
Haus der Kunst, Prinzregentenstraße 1, 80538 Munich Concert and Panel Discussion with Musicians Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-211 27-113, www.hausderkunst.de Changing Views – To attend, please register ahead of time [as of 10 September 2010] by Crossing Musical Borders Saturday, 14 and Sunday, 15 November 2010, 20 h Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 19 h Exhibition Walk-Through with the Artist Gasteig, Small Concert Hall, Rosenheimer Straße 5, 81667 München Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-54 58 05-0, www.muenchner-bildungswerk.de WALID RAAD, Artist and Performer Admission: 6 € The Lebanese artist Walid Raad [*1967] is represented by several works in this exhibition. He became famous through the «Atlas Group» project, Music expresses emotions, hopes and attitudes towards life. This ses- with which he took part in the Documenta 11. The project focuses on sion will deal with crossing musical borders, diving into other cultures, contemporary Lebanese history from 1975 to 1991. At the Haus der religions, and genres. Musicians from distinct cultural backgrounds will Kunst exhibition, Walid Raad will be showing photos, installations and play pieces fusing different traditions, thus standing for the real imple- sculptures that belong to the body of work called A History of Modern mentation of true integration. The music groups performing during this and Contemporary Arab Art, which the artist is currently working on. session will include a gospel singer, a Sufi singer, a klezmer group, and many others. After the concert, the musicians will discuss their experi- ences and their artistic aims. The date will be announced Organiser: Munich Education Centre [Münchner Bildungswerk] Music Performance by TAREK ATOUI, Musician and Artist
The abstract sound performances by the experimental musician from Lebanon, Tarek Atoui, refer mostly to a specific location and are embed- ded in a political and social context. Besides his work as a musician, Tarek Atoui is also a curator and cultural manager – for the moment he is artist in residence at the Sharjah Art Foundation.
Organiser: Haus der Kunst Framework programme for the exhibition The Tradition of Future – The Future of Tradition, see p. 2 46 47 Music Lyric Music Lyric
Concert Concert Al Gromer Khan, Munich Rumi’s Garden Beyond Paradise The Cosmos of Islam in Writing and in Sounds: India Ahura presents Sufi Poetry and Mystical Songs AL GROMER KHAN, Sitar & Surbahar SOUMITRA PAUL, Tabla Saturday, 27 November 2010, 20 h Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München, Lecture Hall, 1st floor Saturday, 30 October 2010, 20 h Maximilianstraße 42, 80538 Munich Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München, Lecture Hall, 1st floor Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-21 01 36-100 Maximilianstraße 42, 80538 München www.voelkerkundemuseum-muenchen.de Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-21 01 36-100 Admission: 18 € www.voelkerkundemuseum-muenchen.de Admission: 17 |15 € [reduced] The music group Ahura presents Sufi music inspired by the works of Persian mystics and poets, especially by Mevlana Dschellaledin Rumi Al Gromer Khan plays classical Indian music on the sitar and the surba- [13th century], whose unifying spiritual message is conveyed by Ahura har, and has enjoyed a 40-year relationship with the renowned Vilayat- through both traditional sound structures and new sound elements. Khani-Gharana house of music. This music originated in the early Vedic Music serves as an instrument of universal communication, unifying ot- period and has been passed down from generation to generation. The herwise distinct cultures. experience of this rich musical tradition transcends the differences bet- Organisers: Stephanie Erkens, Klang der Stille ween cultures and people. and the State Museum of Ethnology, Munich Organisers: Rasa Music and Framework programme for the exhibition State Museum of Ethnology, Munich The Aura of Alif, see p. 4 Framework programme for the exhibition The Aura of Alif, see p. 4 48 49 Music Lyric Music Lyric
Musical Reading Lecture and Reading Gold on Lapis Lazuli Falling in Love with CLAUDIA OTT Arabic Language and Culture BASSEM HAWAR ROMAN BUNKA Saturday, 05 February 2011, 18-21 h
Saturday, 22 January 2011, 20 h Gasteig, Black Box Rosenheimer Straße 5, 81667 Munich Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München, Lecture Hall, 1st floor Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-480 06-62 20 Maximilianstraße 42, 80538 München www.mvhs.de/offene-akademie Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-21 01 36-100 Admission: 12 | 9 € [reduced] www.voelkerkundemuseum-muenchen.de
Lyric poetry and music have been inseparably coupled in numerous tra- Arabic as a Global Language ditions for thousands of years. This performance reunites this coupling DR. WILFRIED BAUMGARTEN Associate Professor of the Arabic language once again. at LMU Munich and Lecturer of Arabic In the musical reading Gold on Lapis Lazuli we bring you the most beau- at the Munich Business School tiful love poems of «the Orient», accompanied by oriental music on ori- The highly renowned global language Arabic is incredibly systematic ginal instruments. The speaker is the editor and scholar Dr. Claudia Ott with logical linguistic rules. Furthermore, Arabic script is second to none who will present many of the poems in their original language. in elegance and beauty. Dr. Wilfried Baumgarten will introduce participants to the structure of the Arabic language and the characteristics of its Organisers: Musikagentur tradutrad and State Museum of Ethnology, Munich Framework programme for the exhibition The Aura of Alif, see p. 4 written form.
Afterwards: West-Eastern Divan ADEL KARASHOLI, Lyricist, Essayist and Translator Adel Karasholi, a bilingual lyricist who was raised in Damascus and now lives in Leipzig, is considered a special talent in both the German and Arab literary scene. Among other honours, he has received the distin- guished Adelbert-von-Chamisso award. He will read from his work in German and in Arabic and will give insight into the challenges of his life between two worlds and two cultures.
Organiser: Munich Adult Education Centre [Münchner Volkshochschule] in collaboration with the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich 50 51
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Lecture Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München The Aura of Alif Lecture Hall, 1st floor Maximilianstraße 42, 80538 München Calligraphy in Islam Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-21 01 36-100 PD DR. JÜRGEN WASIM FREMBGEN, Head of the Oriental Department www.voelkerkundemuseum-muenchen.de at the State Museum of Ethnology in Munich Admission: 5 € Wednesday, 29 September 2010, 18 h Wednesday, 27 October 2010, 19 h Gasteig, Lecture Hall 0.117, Rosenheimer Straße 5, 81667 Munich Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-44 47 80-50/-52, www.mvhs.de/kunstgeschichte Lecture Admission: 6 € Arabic Script and Calligraphy Steps from Functionality to Art In Islam, Arabic script, the written vehicle of the revelations of God, is of PROF. DR. CLAUS-PETER HAASE, Islamic Art History central religious and cultural importance. Consequently, Arabic calligraphy Former Director of the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin became the preeminent art form. The Alif, the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, has a special mystic quality and is symbolic of God’s wisdom. Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 19 h This lecture takes place before the Museum of Ethnology’s exhibition on The Aura of Alif, see p. 4. Lecture
Organisers: Munich Adult Education Centre [Münchner Volkshochschule] Arabic Calligraphy in European Dress State Museum of Ethnology, Munich, Department of Arts and Culture of PROF. DR. HARTMUT BOBZIN the City of Munich Professor for Islamic Studies, Erlangen University Organiser: State Museum of Ethnology, Munich Framework programme for the exhibition The Aura of Alif, see p. 4 52 53
Dance Dance
Interdisciplinary Production Luna Park Video, Sound and Dance: BIS [Body Process Arts Association, Istanbul] and artscenico performing arts [Dortmund] in cooperation with Anna Konjetzky [Munich] Dance Performance «Sense of Self II» Thursday, 28 and Friday, 29 October 2010, 22 h DALI TOUITI Gasteig, Black Box, Rosenheimer Straße 5, 81667 München Thursday, 09 – Saturday, 11 September 2010, 20:30 h Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-28 00 56 07 Advance booking: München Ticket Muffatwerk, Studio, Zellstraße 4, 81667 München Info: Tel.: 0049-[0]89-18 94 60 66, Advance Booking: München Ticket Mysterious turning – Oriental Occident – Occidental Orient – Rumbtata – fried potatoes and kebab – white sausage and Sufi – cars and trains – Dali Touiti was born in Tunis and educated in France. He worked for the microcosm and macro world – H&M and coiffeur: Luna Park is an inter- National Ballet of Tunisia and for the Cairo Opera Dance Theatre. After disciplinary project engaging in a dialogue between two different worlds having had several engagements in Europe and beyond, he moved at a time when distinctions are fading away and traditions are in danger to Germany and has been living and working here permanently as a of disappearing. choreographer and dancer since 1999. He has already successfully com- pleted numerous projects in Munich. The accompanying discussion forum will focus on the cultural framework of the conditions of images being produced, presented, interpreted and In Sense of Self II, Dali Touiti adopts a new choreographic approach by translated today. It will also take into account self and public images. utilizing the intersecting elements between dance and the fine arts in a productive way. In this performance, staged in cooperation with students For further information, see www.changing-views.de. Organisers: Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich, Dance 2010 of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, he makes his own body the object of vivid procedures normally used only when working with stone or metal. Dali Touiti incorporates his cultural origins by raising the ques tions of self-perception and means of expression, interaction and intercultural communication. A discussion with the artist after the performance will address his ex- periences regarding the reception of his works in both Europe and the Arab world.
For further information, see to www.changing-views.de. Organisers: Dali Touiti in cooperation with the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich and Muffatwerk. Organisers: Department of Arts andCultureoftheCityMunich,Dance 2010 ofArts Organisers: Department information,seewww.changing-views.de.For further theirwork. for «diversity» of selfidentity. They will alsodiscusstheimplicationsofconcept the meaningofculturalandphysical memoryregardingtheperception andscholars involvedintheproject,willdiscuss remembering. Artists A discussionforumwillconsiderthepossibilityoftransculturalways of these storiesanew. MeySefan, inordertotell Bergmann andtheSyrian choreographer Philip cooperationbetweentheMunich-basedchoreographer of artistic istheresult for centuries,formthebasisofthisproject.The performance fairytalesandlegendsfromDamascus, passedonandadapted myths, coping withmemoriesandtheirinfluenceonourlives.Stories, The performance Advance booking:MünchenTicket 05607Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-280 Muffathalle, Zellstraße4,81667 München Saturday, 06November2010, 21 h PHILIP B by Remembering theFuture DanceProject Syrian-German ERGMANN and MEY SEFAN andMEY ERGMANN Remembering theFuture Dance deals withtheprocessof 54 Arts and CultureoftheCity ofMunichandi-camp/Neues Theater Arts Organisers: Yvonne of Pouget in cooperationwith the Department information, seewww.changing-views.de.For further implications for the socialrolesofbothsexes. constructions ofbodyimagein the ArabWorld andEurope,their The accompanyingdiscussionforumwilldealwiththe issueofcultural dom forwomeninIslamandChristianity willbeexamined. cietal perceptionsofbeauty. The questionofwhatconstitutesreal free- so- their bodies,althoughtheyarestill pressuredtoconformcertain ofveilandcanshow tion inthattheyarenotobliged towearanysort lations. Incontrast,womenintheWest aresupposedlyfreeofconstric- Islam requireswomentoveilandtheirlivesaregovernedbystrict regu notions offemininityinChristianversusMuslimsocieties. bled Woman In herdancesolo, and attheboxoffice Tickets: electronicreservationsatwww.i-camp.de «Spielplan» 00 Info: Tel. 0049-[0]89-65 Entenbachstraße 37, 81541 München theatermünchen neues / i-camp Sunday, 12 December2010, 20:30Thursday, h 09 – POUGET, Munich YVONNE The AssembledWoman Sexy Zuppel Puppe[SexyZuppel Doll]– Dance Solo 55 , Yvonne fromMunich,dealswith Pouget, achoreographer Sexy ZuppelPuppe [ Sexy ZuppelDoll ] – TheAssem- - Dance 56 Edition Notice
Partners List of Images Bavarian State Library [Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB] [Selection, top down and from left to right] Bernheimer Fine Old Masters e.K. City of Munich, Department of Arts and Culture [Kulturreferat der LH München] p. 3 Engraved bronze statuette in the shape of a horse, © The State Hermitage Museum, Haus der Kunst St. Petersburg | Nassar Mansour: Kun II, London, British Museum, © The Trustees of Lichterkette Society [Lichterkette e.V.] the British Museum | Saloua Raouda Choucair: Painting, Paris 1951, © Saloua Raouda Ludwig Maximilians University [Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, LMU] Choucair | Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Untitled [Sculpture 1], 2008, image: cour- Munich Adult Education Centre [Münchner Volkshochschule] tesy of the Artist and The Third Line, Dubai p. 5 Gilded helmet of an Ottoman post run- Munich Centre for Islamic Studies [Münchner Zentrum für Islamstudien, MZIS] ner, Turkey; 2nd half 16th century, State Museum of Ethnology, Munich [SMV] | Star Munich Education Centre [Münchner Bildungswerk e.V.] inscribed with the word Allah, Iran; 19th century, SMV | Plate with inscription in Samanid Munich Literature Festival [Literaturfest München] Kufi, Northeast Iran; 2nd half 10th century, SMV | Calligraphic decoration in a dervish Munich Museum of Film [Filmmuseum München] lodge, Sehwan Sharif/Pakistan, photo: J.W. Frembgen p. 6 Nizami: Five Epics [Khamsa], Munich Protestant Academy [Evangelische Stadtakademie München] Shiraz: 1550-1600, Bavarian State Library [BSB] Cod.per. p. 21 Al-Kazwini: The Wonders State Museum of Ethnology, Munich [Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, SMV] of Creation, Irak: 1280, BSB Cod.arab. 464 | Kalila wa-Dimna, Syria: approx. 1310, BSB whiteBOX Society [whiteBox e.V.] Cod. arab. 616 p. 9 Boaz Tal | Michal Rovner | Gilad Ophir | Ori Gersht p. 10 «Buddha Wandbild», photo: Bert Praxenthaler | Youssef Titou: «Murale 4 Mahmoud Darwich», Academic Consulting photo: Youssef Titou | Mitra Wakil: «gul», photo: Mitra Wakil p. 11, 32 Koran Suras on Prof. Dr. Avinoam Shalem Beechwood Tablets by Shahid Alam, photo: Horst Nogaijski p. 14 Cologne Islamic Cultural Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich [LMU] / Centre, image: Licht Kunst Licht AG p. 15 Penzberg Mosque, photo: Ralf Gerard. p. 16 Kunsthistorisches Institut [KHI] in Florence – Max-Planck-Institut photos: Christian Krug p. 17 Way to Mecca p. 18 Le grand voyage p. 20 photos: Arab Shorts p. 26 photos: Die Käs, Kabarett in der City e.V. p. 31, 33 Hartmut Bobzin | Cover Coordination «Der Koran», Verlag C.H.Beck p. 34 Manuscript of the Koran [approx. AD 700], Bibliothèque Nationale de France [No. 328a] being photographed in the Gotthelf-Bergsträßer-Photo- archiv | Michael Marx p. 36 Angelika Neuwirth, photo: Uwe Arens | Navid Kermani, photo: Villa Massimo p. 37 Silvia Naef, photo: Federico Naef | Cover «Bilder und Bilder- Division 1/ Performing Arts verbot im Islam», Verlag C.H.Beck p. 38 Silvia Naef, p.o. | Hussein Madi, Erschrockene Dr. Daniela Rippl Vögel, 1995 p. 41 The Egyptian Surrealist Group, circa 1940 p. 43 Photos: Gérard J. Maizou Photo: RASA Music Photo: Ahuraproject Cover «Also sprach Coordination, Editing p. 46 p. 47 p. 49 Abdulla», A1 Verlag p. 51 Tile with the beginning of the basmala [detail], Syria, 16th-17th www.ruth-dieckmann.de cent., SMV | Gilded helmet of an Ottoman post runner [detail], see p. 5 Koran sheet, Grafik Design Kufi ductus [detail], North Africa; 9 th/10 th cent., SMV p. 52 Dali Touiti, Sense of Self II www.marlenekern.de p. 53 Photo: artscenico p. 55 Yvonne Pouget | The respective organisers are responsible for supplying complete information and acquiring image rights. Printed by www.brummer-druck.de
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