Duisburg
08.05.2012
„The Making Of Beyoğlu“ was a series of workshops examining specific case studies in the “hip” district of Beyoğlu in Istanbul.A collaboration between SALT, Istanbul, Bureau Venhuizen, Rotterdam and Urban Rhizome, Duisburg-Marxloh the project used the principle of play to
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14.02.2012
„The term integration should be replaced by the term social work because that is it what we mean when we say integration“, says Zehra Yilmaz, 48, director of the meeting place of the DITIB mosque in Duisburg-Marxloh.Zehra Yilmaz who came to Germany when she was two years old, studied
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10.01.2012
The StART 11 conference in Duisburg provided an expert discussion on the relevant use of digital media in the everyday-life established cultural and educational institutions. The playful approaches from media art and social web turn into a convincing model of identification with high arts and
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06.12.2011
"My parents are illiterate - we didn't have any other books than the Koran at home." That's off to a good start is something you may think when you hear such a sentence. Luckily, you're put right soon afterwards. The sentence comes from Hatice Akyün who is a writer ("
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10.11.2011
New York is the city that never sleeps. The Ruhr area is commonly known for the opposite, especially when it comes to arts and culture. From Duisburg you may think: why from Duisburg out of all places is the group "I Heart Ruhr York" looking to promote the region's artist scene with
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18.09.2011
Feridun Zaimoglu’s new novel „Ruß“ is a melange of a social and a crime story. His hero, Renz, a disillusioned kiosk owner, only finds back to life when starting to investigate the murder of his wife. His hunt takes him to Warsaw and to the Austrian Alps – but the actual
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31.07.2011
"Every artist seeks to create a magical work during his lifetime", says Ulrich Genth. The artist has entitled and entire mountain as magical: "Tiger & Turtle - Magic Mountain” is the title of the large sculpture at Landmarke Angerpark that he is realising in cooperation
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29.01.2011
Peace for the domestic huts; war against "culture palaces". At the end of November, the public order office Duisburg ordered that events at the music club Djäzz must finish at 1 instead of 5 o'clock from now on. The case has recently been dismissed by the Düsseldorf Administrative Court. As a
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23.12.2010
The chapel St. Martin in Werthacker will not receive any funds from church taxes from now on and shall thus be demolished. The settlers who found their home near the motorway intersection Kaiserberg are threatened to lose their only place of assembly. Keep our chapel in the village! The
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09.12.2010
Elian Somers takes photographs. In her photos, she displays urban spaces. The Utopia of the city has become bland concrete, attractive and repelling at the same time. Somers explores both sides with her work.She resides, works, and lives in Duisburg-Marxloh for a month. Her Duisburg project deals
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