One year after President Mohammed Mursi took office, the margins in Egypt are narrowing again. Artists critical of the regime, unconventional women, Christians and secular Muslims must once again fight for their rights.
The artist, who has lived openly lesbian for decades, turns 70
Women artists of the present. Born in Konstanz in 1942, she spent the 1960s in Paris. At the Berlinale 2012, she was honoured for her life’s work with the Gay and Lesbian Teddy Award.
Al-Qaeda and a German musical in Yemen
Yemen is still considered an al-Qaeda base. Meanwhile, in the port city of Aden in the south of the country, the cult musical “Linie 1” by Berlin’s Gripstheater celebrated its premiere – transposed to Arab conditions. Actors and director are convinced that the majority of Yemenis reject radical Islamic terror.
The “grande dame” of political street theater, turned 80.
In the wild 1960s, she belonged to the avant-garde of American and European off-theatre. Born the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi in Germany, her family fled to New York to escape the Nazis. Now, Judith Malina has been touring the world with her legendary Living Theatre for half a century.
The former black ghetto is turning into the in district of New York City
In search of affordable living and working space, more and more – mostly white – artists and business people are moving to Harlem. The result is not only a cultural revival of the former black ghetto, which was once a cultural magnet for artists in the 1920s. The gentrified neighborhood is also experiencing an infrastructural upgrade – as well as a social restructuring.