Exberliner issue 185, September 2019
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WHAT’S ON — Calendar<br />
Calendar<br />
Heinrich von Schimmer newthinking communications<br />
Above<br />
Sat 07 Torstraßen Festival<br />
<strong>September</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Picks, highlights and can’t-miss events<br />
for this month in Berlin.<br />
Above<br />
Sun 15 Anna Karenina<br />
or Poor Folk<br />
Left<br />
Wed 11 Folsom Street<br />
Fetish Festival Berlin<br />
Cesra Rotthoff<br />
Falko Siewert<br />
Right<br />
Fri 06 Original Bauhaus<br />
Below<br />
Wed 18 Human Rights<br />
Film Festival Berlin<br />
Leslie Martin<br />
Above<br />
Thu 26 BAM! Festival<br />
Fotostudio Bartsch<br />
04<br />
WED Fantasy Film Fest –<br />
Film Germany’s touring<br />
genre fest returns to the capital<br />
for its biggest event of the year,<br />
with opening night screenings<br />
including The Lodge, an intense<br />
psychological shocker by Veronika<br />
Franz and Severin Fiala (Goodnight<br />
Mommy). Cinestar Sony Center.<br />
Through Sep 15.<br />
06<br />
FRI Original Bauhaus<br />
– Art opening The Bauhaus’<br />
100th anniversary celebrations are<br />
culminating this month with the<br />
Bauhaus Archiv’s exhibition at<br />
Berlinische Galerie, featuring 1000<br />
original objects and works of art.<br />
Come tonight to rub shoulders with<br />
the curators at the official opening.<br />
Through Jan 27. Starts 18:00.<br />
Amanda Palmer – Singer-Songwriter<br />
After releasing her first solo album<br />
in six years, the crowd-funded<br />
There Will Be No Intermission, the<br />
New Yorker and former member<br />
of the Dresden Dolls promises to<br />
make fans weep on her solo piano<br />
tour, tonight at Admiralspalast.<br />
Starts 18:45.<br />
Plateau Effect – Dance Berlin’s Staatsballett<br />
begins the new season at<br />
the Komische Oper with Swedish<br />
choreographer Jefta van Dinther’s<br />
multi-sensual contemporary dance<br />
produced with the Cullberg Ballet.<br />
Again on Sept 19. Starts 19:30.<br />
07<br />
SAT Torstraßen Festival<br />
– Music From freak-folk<br />
(Jessica Pratt) to hip-hop (Shunaji)<br />
to dreamy electro-pop (BEA1991)<br />
– plus the Independent Label<br />
Market – there are plenty of local<br />
and international acts to discover<br />
at the Volksbühne Berlin (page 31).<br />
Starts 12:00.<br />
Lollapalooza Berlin – Festival A mixed<br />
bag including Kings of Leon, Swedish<br />
House Mafia and Princess Nokia,<br />
plus a bunch of German bands<br />
that Perry Farrell has probably<br />
never heard of, much less approved.<br />
Inside and out- at Olympiastadion<br />
& Olympia Park. Through Sep 8.<br />
Heritage Day(s) – Monuments The<br />
city’s listed buildings and UNESCO<br />
sites open their doors: Take a tour<br />
through Siemenststadt, peek into<br />
Pankow’s Ahmadiyya mosque or<br />
see Mies van der Rohe’s Lemke<br />
Haus in Hohenschönhausen and<br />
more. Through Sep 8. Starts 10:00.<br />
SUN Jewish Film Festival<br />
08 – Film This 25th edition<br />
opens with a gala featuring music<br />
by Sigalit Feig and Harry Ermer,<br />
followed by a screening of Crescendo,<br />
starring Peter Simonischek as the<br />
conductor of an Israeli-Palestinian<br />
youth orchestra. Hans Otto Theater<br />
Potsdam. Starts 19:00. Through<br />
Sep 17.<br />
10<br />
TUE Familie Flöz: Hotel<br />
Paradiso – Theatre The<br />
Berlin-based international cast<br />
of Familie Flöz is donning their<br />
masks to celebrate their 25th anniversary<br />
with several shows at<br />
Schiller Theater. Their 2008 Hotel<br />
Paradiso tells the tragicomic fate<br />
of one four-star hotel in the Alps...<br />
without words! Again on Sep 11<br />
and 15. Starts 20:00.<br />
11<br />
WED International Literature<br />
Festival – Books Berlin’s literary<br />
extravaganza brings authors from<br />
all over the world to stages across<br />
the city for readings and panel discussions.<br />
Special sections this year<br />
focus on AI, decolonisation and sex<br />
in literature. Zimbabwean writer<br />
Petina Gappah opens the festival at<br />
HAU. Through Sep 21. Starts 18:00.<br />
Folsom Street Fair – Fetish For four<br />
days, the San Francisco-born fetish<br />
fair takes over more than<br />
just Motzstraße, with boat and<br />
bus tour, classical concerts and<br />
of course, lots of leather and sex.<br />
It culminates in the Street Fair<br />
on, yes, Motzstraße on Sep 14.<br />
Through Sep 15.<br />
12<br />
THU Berlin Art Week – fair<br />
opening International art fairs<br />
Art Berlin and Positions take over<br />
Flughafen Tempelhof for four days,<br />
as part of Berlin’s annual showcase<br />
of international contemporary art<br />
– in total 17 museums, 15 private<br />
collections, dozens of galleries...<br />
Through Sep 15. Starts 16:00.<br />
Webfest Berlin – Film In total, 64<br />
series, workshops, discussions<br />
and networking events for aspiring<br />
creators. It opens tonight at<br />
Osthafen with a screening of old<br />
favourites from the Returning<br />
Series Selection. Through Sep<br />
14. Starts 10:00.<br />
14<br />
SAT Anna Karenina or<br />
Poor Folk – Theatre premiere<br />
The Gorki main stage reopens<br />
after summer renovations with<br />
the premiere of Bosnian director<br />
Oliver Frljić’s latest in-house<br />
production, a medley of Tolstoy<br />
and Dostoyevsky. Through Sep 29.<br />
With English surtitles. Starts 18:00.<br />
16<br />
MON Shortparis – Electro-<br />
Pop With a magnetic mix of<br />
housey grooves, tortured trip-hop<br />
and squirrelly guitar, this quintet<br />
has won a following far beyond their<br />
base in St. Petersburg. Experience<br />
their theatrics tonight at Festsaal<br />
Kreuzberg. Starts 20:00.<br />
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