EXBERLINER Issue 168, February 2018

WHAT’S ON
Calendar
February 2018
Picks, highlights and can’t-miss events for this month in Berlin.
Clockwise from top: Final Girls: Book
Of Birdie, Feb 1. Berlinale, Feb 15.
Liberté, Feb 22. Fever Ray, Feb 28.
THU
1
Final Girls — Film A
three-night celebration
of women in horror at
B-ware! Ladenkino gets
underway with obsessionthemed
shorts and the German
premiere of sacrilegious shocker
Book of Birdie. Through Feb 3.
Starts 18:15. (See page 15)
FRI
2
Tropical Nights — Plants
Over three chilly
weekends this month,
get hot and steamy in the
Botanischer Garten’s greenhouses
with fruity cocktails,
Latin American music and
lectures about exotic flora. Also
Feb 3, 9-10, 16-17. Starts 18:00.
SAT
3
Rolex Arts Weekend
— Multidisciplinary
Financed by the luxe
brand, seven cultural up-andcomers
have been working
under the “watch” of mentors
like Philip Glass, David
Chipperfield and Alfonso
Cuarón. Now, they present a
weekend of presentations and
performances at the Kulturforum,
Deutsches Theater and
Staatsbibliotek. Through Feb 4.
SUN
4
CTM/Transmediale ends
— Music/Art For the past
10 days, all your cool
arty friends have been getting
down with digital art, lectures
and experimental music at HKW
and various venues. Join the fray
as proto-techno punks DAF
close out the fest at Festsaal
Kreuzberg. Starts 20:00.
Frankenstein — Opera Awardwinning
director Maximilian
von Mayenburg presents his
freshly commissioned operatic
take on Mary Shelley’s “modern
Prometheus” in the Deutsche
Oper’s innovative studio space,
the Tischlerei. Also Feb 3, 23,
24, 25. Starts 20:00.
MON
5
Brecht-Tage — Literature
Want to mark 120 years
of the bespectacled
Berlin playwright in the very
house he died in? Head to the
Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus
for a week of (German-language)
tributes, including a
performance by prolific actress
Susanne Sachße. Through Feb 9.
TUE
6
Helene Fischer — Music
You’re not truly
integrated unless you
both hate and know all the
words to “Atemlos durch die
Nacht”. Catch up with Germany’s
Schlager queen over five
nights at Mercedes-Benz-Arena.
Also Feb 7, 9-11. Starts 20:00.
THU
8
Eduardo Paolozzi — Art
opening Peruse collages
and prints of people
and products from the prolific
and pioneering British Pop
artist (1924-2005) in the aptly
titled Lots of Pictures - Lots of
Fun, at Berlinische Galerie
through May 28. Opens 19:00.
SAT
10
Self Play — Sex Whether
you’re single or
coupled up this
Valentine’s Day, you deserve a
hand. Get in touch at a
two-week exhibition and
workshop series that’s all
about female masturbation
and gender-sensitive porn.
KMA71. Through Feb 24.
Arthur Jafa — Art opening The
artist, director and cinematographer
has made waves in
the US for his aesthetically
striking depictions of the black
American experience (not to
mention his collaborations
with Beyonce and Jay-Z). His
first exhibition in Germany
opens tonight at the Julia Stoschek
Collection. Through Nov
25. Starts 19:00.
SUN Tristan und Isolde — Opera
11 Strap yourself in for four
hours of harmonic and
sexual tension as director Dmitri
Tcherniakov takes on Wagner’s
tale of star-crossed lovers at the
Staatsoper. Starts 16:00. Also Feb
15, 18, 25.
MON
12
Exblicks: Freddy/Eddy
– Film Join us at
Lichtblick Kino as Tini
Tüllmann presents her multiaward-winning
debut feature, a
slick psychological thriller about
an artist accused of domestic
violence and his hell-raising
imaginary friend. With English
subs and Q&A. Starts 20:30.
WED
14
Berlin Critics’ Week
– Film If the Berlinale’s
red carpet isn’t your
bag, head to Hackesche Höfe
for a more esoteric celebration
of cinema culture, starting
with Georgian absurdist
thriller Scary Mother. Through
Feb 22. (See page 29)
THU
15
Berlinale — Film It’s
here! The 68th edition
of Europe’s biggest
public film festival kicks off in
suitably glitzy style with the
world premiere of Wes
Anderson’s Isle of Dogs.
Through Feb 25. (See page 20)
FRI
16
Left Performance
Histories — Art To
accompany their
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