Pelvis forward. Back straight. Barbell to hips. Lower down. Repeat. Don’t cry. Pain is just weakness leaving the body! Three sets of eight repetitions. Calories burned 168 kcal, weight loss 23g. These, you wimp, are deadlifts. Life is a gym: this is not a place to play. This is work. The will subdues the body, […]
A young German-Turkish woman studies law. The law should protect me, should protect everyone – this is the motivation for Seyma, who grew up in an environment characterised by patriarchal violence. In her first case as a defence lawyer, she takes on the defence of a suspected pimp and internationally wanted human trafficker. This brings […]
Zwei Menschen stehen sich in aller Verletzlichkeit gegenüber, eine Sängerin und ein Sänger. Im Zentrum: das dunkle Märchen von Herzog Blaubart und seine Opernversion von Béla Bartók. Darin die verschlossenen sieben Türen. Was liegt dahinter verborgen? Was Blaubart verstecken will, will Judith entdecken, aufdecken, enthüllen und lässt dabei die Stimmen verstummter Frauen zum Leben erwachen. So werden Blaubarts Türen nicht durch seine Waffen, seine Folter, Macht oder Trauer definiert, sondern durch die Selbstentäußerungen, Schaffenskraft, Freude und Größe fast vergessener Frauen.
The Turkish journalist, documentary filmmaker and author Can Dündar is one of the most prominent experts on Turkey. In his new book Die rissige Brücke über den Bosporus. A Century of the Turkish Republic and the West , he vividly describes the main features and characteristics of Turkish politics, society and culture, while also taking […]
A talk about the history, culture and music of the Alevis – with representatives of the Alevi community, the actress Taies Farzan, Bernhard Glocksin (Artistic Director NKO) and the composer Taner Akyol
Come in and take part in the future ritual of the goddesses of fate at the turn of the year! Their world is on the verge of collapse this year. Because the earth’s population is growing – and with it the workload of the trio, who have always woven and cut the threads of human […]
What does love mean? What, sending music into the world? Is there such a thing as destiny that connects the two? Bésame mucho – how do we want to translate that: Kiss me often, kiss me hard, kiss me always? – is the hit song that a young Mexican pianist and composer made from a […]
Berlin’s apartment is being fragmented, divided, quartered and, from a hipsters side, drawing nearer to the state that used to be the setting of the metropolis of the 1920s. Focussing the history of the Berlin tenement such as the „Richardsburg“ a satirical living theatre is staged – with elements from slapstick, songs, dance and scenes.
