Fé Reichelt, dancer, choreographer and dance therapist, has had a decisive influence on the German dance scene – from the post-war period until today, especially through her contribution to the development of dance therapy.
Fé Reichelt ©private
Category: Culture
Hartmut Radebold, born in Berlin, in 1935, is considered the “doyen of German-speaking psychotherapy for the elderly”. He is one of the pioneers of research on war children. He has thus found his own two personal life themes and made them his professional focus.
11. February 2015
Arab women film makers
Women directors have always been among the pioneers for women’s and human rights in the Arab world.
(See also my two books on the subject and the reviews)
Nadia El Fani ©private
Two female directors from Egypt and Tunisia, Amal Ramsis and Nadia El Fani, talk about their lives, their films, the so-called Arab Spring and its aftermath in their home countries.
The 55-minute radio feature was broadcast by several ARD stations.
For International Women’s Day 2012, Radio Berlin-Brandenburg ran:
6. February 2015
Young Egyptians and the extramarital sex ban
“No sex before or outside marriage”. Those who are not married should be celibate. This is what the Koran urges believers to do. In Cairo, filmmaker Mahmoud Yossry and other young men talk about their sexual frustration as well as how they deal with the Islamic sex ban and its social consequences.
1. August 2014
Jewish-Muslim Chaabi Music
In Algiers before the outbreak of the Liberation War in 1954, Muslim and Jewish musicians made chaabi music together. The young Algerian-Irish director Safinez Bousbia has now documented their story and that of chaabi music in the award-winning film “El Gusto” (The Passion).
14. April 2014
Dancing in Cairo: How Arabic Films Stage the Body
The way the body is treated has changed in the Arab world. This was shown in a film series on the body in Arab film at the 5th Arab Film Festival in Berlin: In film, the human body reflects social issues.
19. June 2013
Egypt ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood
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.
Ulrike Ottinger ©Anne Selders
8. November 2010
Yemen: “Line 1” in Arabic
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.
