Where is it really still quiet, where can the rustling of the trees be heard – without airplane or car noise roaring in between? American Gordon Hempton is a sound hunter, always on the lookout for places where only the sounds of nature can be heard. He has these places certified – and hopes that people there will also listen to themselves.
The cartoon activist Sara Qaed from Bahrain received the 19th Ibn Rushd Prize. This award is given to people who stand up for free thinking in the Arab world. Her pictures deal with migration, women and corruption.
It’s the story of two emigrants: one came to San Francisco from Munich in the 1990s, the other from the eastern German state of Thuringia. Both opened restaurants with food from their homeland.
Tilmann Waldthaler, born in Munich, Germany, in 1942 and raised in South Tyrol, Austria, is a cook – and a cyclist. An ingenious mixture. Because wherever he went on his round-the-world cycling tours, cooks were always in demand. The now almost 80-year-old has cycled hundreds of thousands of kilometres in persuit of getting to know foreign countries.
Throughout her life, Susann Schmid-Giovannini, born in Vienna and 88 years old next month, has worked and been active in helping hearing-impaired children learn to hear and speak from an early age.
Abi Wallenstein was born in Jerusalem in 1945, the son of German Jews who had emigrated during the Nazi era. He has lived in Germany since 1960, when his parents returned to their homeland. For almost that long he has been one of the outstanding European blues greats.
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.
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.
“Life and Survival in Congo. Gorilla Conservation and Family Life in Wartime” is the autobiography of Carlos Schuler who found a second home in Eastern Congo. During three wars, the Swiss national held out there to protect the gorillas from extermination by poachers. Carlos Schuler also reports on the struggle for mineral resources. After the Rwanda war ended, he witnessed gunmen streaming across the nearby border and going unmolested.
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.
