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Full episode 28.08.10 | 22:30 - 23:00 UTC

Arts.21 - The Cultural Magazine

This week, ARTS 21 heads to Weimar for the Pèlerinages arts festival and accompanies artists from all round the world to the first Land Art Biennial in the Gobi Desert. We also catch up with criminal defense lawyer and writer Ferdinand von Schirach to talk about his new book.

But first up, we pay tribute to Christoph Schlingensief, the inspirational theatre director and artist who died last week at the age of 49.

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The legacy of Christoph Schlingensief - The rebel with many causes

Even though it was by no means unexpected, the death of Christoph Schlingensief has hit the arts world hard. Unpredictable, visionary and controversial, he was diagnosed with lung cancer two years ago.

He did his best to fight the disease and forged ahead with ambitious projects such as an 'opera village' in Burkina Faso, the concept for the German Pavilion at the Art Biennale in Venice, an opera premiere that was to mark the reopening of the Berlin State Opera. What will now become of these projects, and what sort of a legacy did Christoph Schlingensief leave?

Desert art - The first Land Art-Biennale in Mongolia

The first Land Art Biennale Mongolia is currently taking place in the Gobi Desert, and it's something of an experiment. 24 artists from all over the world traveled to Mongolia to take part. They're there to develop their artistic visions, far away from civilization and the economic shackles of the established art market.

"Mongolia 360 Degrees" is being organized by teams from Berlin and Ulan Bator, with Berlin-based artist Marc Schmitz acting as overall manager. ARTS.21 reports from another world.

Guilt – Ferdinand von Schirach's latest cases

Instead of a prison sentence, a man gets a new set of teeth for Christmas; a boy is tortured until he's almost dead in the name of the Illuminati. Nine members of a brass band destroy a young girl's life with impunity. Criminal defense lawyer Ferdinand von Schirach bases his short stories on real-life cases.

His latest collection is called "Schuld", or "Guilt".

Grand Tour (8) – The Weimar Arts Festival

The Buchenwald concentration camp is just five kilometers away from the former residence of Germany's literary giant Goethe in Weimar - so the city symbolizes the extraordinary contradictions within Germany's history no like other.

"Pèlerinages" is the sub-heading of this year's arts festival, and our GRAND TOUR reporter was there for the opening weekend.

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Our Cultural Highlights of the Week

  • TOP 3: Intensive Care – An exhibition in Düsseldorf

  • TOP 2: Martin Schläpfer – Choreographer of the Year

  • TOP 1: Schauspiel Köln, Theater of the Year