1. Inhalt
  2. Navigation
  3. Weitere Inhalte
  4. Metanavigation
  5. Suche
  6. Choose from 30 Languages
More Info

Full episode 21.08.10 | 22:30 - 23:00 UTC

Arts.21 - The Cultural Magazine

ARTS.21 invites you to a summer music special. Our Grand Tour shows Bayreuth away from the red carpet. At the 2010 Ruhr Trienniale, we look at forbidden love in the Muslim and European worlds. Plus a meeting of cultures at the Tanz im August festival – which brings together Berlin street music with traditional Brazilian sounds.

Topics

Grand Tour – Bayreuth Off-Stage

For one month a year, tranquil Bayreuth puts on its finest raiment. The eighth edition of our Grand Tour takes us to Bayreuth but away from the main Festival House.

Our reporter watches the frenzied struggle for a ticket, hears the Minstrels' Contest (cut down to an hour), drinks a Wagner-themed tea called "Dragon's Blood", and then recuperates in the "Lohengrin Thermal Bath".

Heavenly Power – Persian Love in the Ruhr Valley

Women in hijab, men plotting terror: those are the West's prejudices about the Islamic world. No morals: that's how many Muslims see the West. The Ruhr Trienniale 2010 is now exploring the similarities between the cultures.

For example, in the area of forbidden love: from Romeo and Juliet to Leila and Majnun. The play by Albert Ostermeier and Samir Odeh-Tamimi shows that, in their deepest feelings, people often resemble each other more than they realize.

The Culture of the Body – China's Young Generation at a Festival

Dance as a mirror of societal change -- that's the topic of the Rubato Company of Berlin in its new project. Rubato and the Mahjong Dance Company from Shanghai have jointly developed the piece Look at me, I'm Chinese.

It's about enjoying one's own identity and individual lifestyle in a country of elaborate rituals and collective submission.

Berlin Loop Brazil – From the Street to the Big Stage

Konrad Küchenmeister began his career as a street musician in Berlin four years ago. He now plays to huge audiences in Brazil, and has even been the supporting act for Manu Chao.

What made it possible is BerlinLoopBrasil, a joint project of the Goethe Institute and the German embassy.

TOP 3

The Summer's Most Beautiful Musical Moments

  • TOP 3: Twenty years of the Chamber Opera – A spectacle in Rheinsberg Castle

  • TOP 2: Fantastic – German hip-hoppers Die Fantastischen Vier rock Stuttgart

  • TOP 1: Elektra – An acclaimed opera performance at the Salzburg Festspiele