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21-25 Sep 2024, Sanary-sur-Mer with Parcours de Mémoire: Exiled writers and other artists

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21.-25.9.2024, Sanary-sur-Mer with Parcours de Mémoire: Exiled writers and other artists

Sanary-sur-Mer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanary-sur-Mer:  a commune … in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, … 49 km … southeast of Marseille … Literary Sanary: With the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s, a great number of German writers and intellectuals left Germany and settled here … Patronised by Jean Cocteau and his coterie, Sanary had already drawn Aldous Huxley, who wrote Brave New World at Villa Huley, … and his wife, Maria; they attracted other English visitors … The German expatriates clustered around Thomas Mann and his large family … Ludwig Marcuse in his book “Mein Zwanzigstes Jahrhundert” (p. 160) wrote about Sanary: “Wir wohnten im Paradies – notgedrungen“, meaning “We lived in paradise – against our will”. “If one lives in exile,” wrote Hermann Kesten, “The café becomes at once the family home, the nation, church and parliament, a desert and a place of pilgrimage, cradle of illusions and their cemetery… In exile, the café is the one place where life goes on.” With the declaration of war in 1939, the French government treated these exiles as enemy aliens and interned some of them in camps …, and eventually some were sent to Auschwitz. After the liberation of France, the whole episode went ignored until the 1990s when … a commemorative plaque was unveiled, and literary itineraries were signposted …

Exilpoetik in Sanary-sur-Mer, https://www.sanary-tourisme.com/en/discover-sanary/history-and-heritage/sanary-land-of-exile/: It was not without a touch of humour that the journalist Ludwig Marcuse, who lived in Sanary, took the liberty of awarding the commune the honorary title of „world capital of artistic and literary exile“.

Parcours de Mémoire: Sur les pas des exilés à Sanary / Following the steps of the exiled writers [and other artists] / Auf den Spuren der Exil-Schriftsteller [und anderer Künstler]. Selected persons: Hans Siemsen, Erich Klossowski, Friedrich Wolf, Wilhelm Herzog, Walter Bondy, Alma Malher & Franz Werfel, Bruno Franck, Thomas Mann, Ludwig Marcuse, Lion Feuchtwanger (2 Standorte), René Schickele, Sybille Bedford. Not exiled, but in touch with those: Aldous Huxley. Significant places: Hôtel de la Tour; les cafés du port.

16-19 Sep 2024, ♣ Venezia incl. Biennale Arte, Kentridge, (Beat) poetry

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16.-19.9.2024, Venezia incl. Biennale Arte, Kentridge, (Beat) poetry

Biennale Arte 2024, 20.4.-24.11 2024, www.labiennale.org/en/art/2024: 60th International Art Exhibition: Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere“. Sede Giardini / Giardini venue; Sede Arsenale / Arsenale venue.

Adriano Pedrosa (curator): “Artists have always traveled and moved about through cities, countries and continents. The Biennale Arte 2024’s primary focus is … artists who are themselves foreigners, immigrants, expatriates, diasporic, émigrés, exiled, or refugees”.

Brochure: „This Biennale Arte … hosts samples of marginalised, excluded, oppressed beauty, erased by the dominant matrices of geo-thinking. The interlacing themes … – the different, the foreigner, the journey, integration – will reverberate nowhere better than in the … ever-renewed waters of the lagoon city. Once again Venice – over the centuries an open cradle of knowledge and communication between peoples, ethnicities, religions – is the natural forum in which to marshal new points of view …“

National participations, www.labiennale.org/en/art/2024/national-participations:

  • USA, Jeffrey Gibson: „the space in which to place me“ …
  • Germany: Thresholds. www.labiennale.org/en/art/2024/germany: „Every moment is a threshold between the vanishing past and an unclear future. This … applies equally to everyone. For those affected by migration, however, it is a fundamental three-dimensional and bodily experience … the German contribution explores history and the future in three scenarios … the contribution engages in building a bridge to another location outside the Giardini: the island of La Certosa. Here the artists Michael Akstaller, Nicole L’Huillier, Robert Lippok, and Jan St. Werner create a resonant space with works that focus on the significance of the moment of temporal and spatial transition …

In parallel to the Biennale: William Kentridge: Self-portrait as a coffe-pot. An exhibition curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev at Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation, Venice. www.arsenale.com/downloads/AI_Web_material_Kentridge/AI_2024_Booklet_Kentridge.pdf: „This series of nine, thirty-minute episodes, is an experiment in embodiment and phenomenological experience in the digital age, and a reflection on what might happen in the brain and in the studio of an artist today. Filming of the series began during the first lockdown of the 2020–22 COVID-19 pandemic in Kentridge’s Johannesburg studio and continued in its aftermath …“ e.g.: Episode 4, Finding one’s fate; Episode 5, As if; Episode 6, Harvest of devotion.

Bill Morgan (2015): The Beats abroad. City Lights Publishers, San Francisco, p.59: „In the fall of 1954, … Alan Ansen …decided to settle in Venice … He hosted many of the Beats and introduced them to his Venice friends … (p.60) Ansen was living in the the top-floor apartment at 3219 Calle Carrozze … 1957 … Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky … arrived in Venice for a visit … Ansen was mortified when Ginsberg and Orlovsky argued at a dinner given for Peggy Guggenheim and began tossing a wet towel back and forth across the table … This got Allen and Peter blackballed from Guggenheim’s company… Ansen … composed … The return from Greece, to celebrate Peggy Guggenheim’s sixty-first birthday … It was performed … at her palazzo … now the Peggy Guggenheim collection Dorsoduro, 701 … (p.61) In … 1967 Allen Ginsberg went to Venice for the sole purpose of visiting … Ezra Pound … Pond’s house at 252 Calle Querini … In 1995 Ginsberg was back in Venice again, … for the opening of an exhibition of his photography displayed at the Venice Biennial …

Venice and ist Lagoon, https://unescoworld.com/heritage/venice-and-its-lagoon/: „Founded in the 5th century and spread over 118 small islands, Venice became a major maritime power in the 10th century. The whole city is an extraordinary architectural masterpiece in which even the smallest building contains works by some of the world’s greatest artists …“

16 Sep 2024, ♣ Sistiana, Rilke trail & Duino Cliffs Nature Reserve – Duino castle – Miramare castle

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16.9.2024, Sistiana, Rilke trail & Duino Cliffs Nature Reserve – Duino castle – Miramare castle

Sistiana: Rilke trail, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rilke_trail: … Italian: Sentiero Rilke … providing a scenic view of the Gulf of Trieste … connects the villages of Duino and Sistiana … For a long time the trail was abandoned but in 1987 it was restored by the Province of Trieste …

Sistiana: Duino Cliffs Regional Nature Reserve, Information plate: „… includes a steep limestone cliff, a sea band and a narrow band of the Carso plateau … Central European, Illyrian-Balkan and Mediterranean animal and plant species live here … The most important plant of the Reserve is Centaurea kartschiana. The Duino Cliffs are its only world location … The white limestone rock is the main feature of the Reserve… Along the cliff …, running alongside the remains of military emplacements, winds the Rilke path …

Duino castle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duino_Castle: … a fourteenth-century fortification located in the village of Duino, … on the cliffs overlooking the Gulf of Trieste … The ruins of an older castle built in the eleventh century by the Patriarch of Aquileia are located on the grounds … Thurn und Taxis … Alexander and Marie supported artists and writers, including Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. While a guest of Princess Marie in … 1912, Rilke began to write his Duino Elegies, a collection of ten … philosophical and mystical poems …

Miramare castle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miramare_Castle:  … a 19th-century castle direct on the Gulf of Trieste … It was built from 1856 to 1860 for Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian and his wife, Charlotte of Belgium, later Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and Empress Carlota of Mexico … The castle’s grounds include an extensive cliff and seashore park … The grounds were completely re-landscaped to feature numerous tropical species of trees and plants …

13-16 Sep 2024, Trieste / Triest

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13.-16.9.2024, Trieste / Triest

Trieste, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste: … capital … of the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia … located at the head of the Gulf of Trieste, on a narrow strip of Italian territory lying between the Adriatic Sea and Slovenia …The city has a long coastline and is surrounded by … karstic areas … belonged to the Habsburg monarchy from 1382 until 1918 … Trieste was its most important seaport. As a prosperous trading hub in the Mediterranean region, Trieste grew to become the fourth largest city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (after Vienna, Budapest, and Prague). At the turn of the 20th century, it emerged as an important hub for literature and music … the Free Territory of Trieste became a major site of the struggle between the Eastern and Western blocs after the Second World War … intersection of Latin, Slavic and Germanic cultures … home to diverse ethnic groups and religious communities … A scholarly area, Trieste has the highest percentage of researchers, per capita, in Europe … Città della bora (“City of the bora”), Città del vento (“City of Wind”), “Vienna by the sea” and “City of Coffee” are epithets used to describe Trieste.

Ziliotto, Donatella (1963): Illustrierter Führer von Triest und Umgebung. Deutsche Bearbeitung von Wilhelm Weldin. Unter den Auspizien des Fremdenverkehrsamtes der Provinz Triest. Verlag des Stabilimento Tipografico Nazionale, Triest, 3. Aufl., p.11: „An Triest … sind Renaissance, Barock und Rokoko fast spurlos vorübergegangen. Erst als die Stadt Anfang des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts mächtig aufzuholen begann, hatte sie das Glück, die letzte große historische Stilperiode nicht zu versäumen: den Klassizismus, dessen immanente Latinität wie für ihren geistigen Habitus zurechtgeschnitten war … Das transzendente Symbol … Triests ist seine Kathedrale … San Giusto … (p.12) Die Stadt … in einen der schönsten Golfe der Welt hineingestellt … Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert brachte der Stadt den entscheidenden Eingriff des Hauses Habsburg in ihre Angelegenheiten, der ihre kulturelle Entwicklung für ein Jahrhundert aus dem Geleise brachte … waren die Habsburger an Triest nur wirtschaftlich und machtpolitisch interessiert … … … (pp.13-14) in der kurzen Spanne zwischen 1912 und 1914 entstanden in Triest zwei der bedeutendsten Werke der modernen Weltliteratur: der „Ulysses“ von James Joyce und „Duineser Elegien“ von Rainer Maria Rilke …“

Castello di San Giusto & Vistas, incl. Cattedrale di San Giusto, Castello di San Giusto, San Giusto with town model

Roman Traces incl. Arco di Riccardo / Richardsbogen; Roman Forum (with Medusa); Teatro Romano

By the seaside, incl. Piazza Unità, Canal Grande (with James Joyce), Molo Venezia, Piazza Venezia (with Massimiliano)

Other places, incl. Santa Maria Maggiore, San Silvestro, the Jewish Ghetto, Via del Donato at Via del Crocifisso (cf. 1967)

1967 – 2024, same place: Via Donato at Via del Crocifisso

1967_09_24 Altes Triest (I)

Cf.: 1967_09 Herbstreise Triest.

9-12 Aug 2024, Nordsee: St.Peter-Ording, Westerhever, Tating

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9.-12.8.2024, Nordsee: St.Peter-Ording, Westerhever, Tating

St.Peter-Ording, Ortsteile (von N nach S): Ording, Bad (mit Seebrücke), Dorf, Böhl; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankt_Peter-Ording: … Gemeinde im Kreis Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein … im Südwesten der Halbinsel Eiderstedt … Ein Teil der Gemarkung befindet sich im Nationalpark Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wattenmeer … Charakteristisch … der weitläufige Strand … erstreckt sich auf einer Länge von bis zu zwölf Kilometern und (bei Niedrigwasser) auf bis zu zwei Kilometer Breite im Westen des Ortes … Sandbänke …vor den Ortsteilen Bad und Ording ein Dünengürtel … Vor dem Deich … vom südlichen Ortsende bis hinter die Seebrücke eine Salzwiesenlandschaft … Tidenhub … bis zu drei Meter … Der erste der charakteristischen Pfahlbauten auf dem Strand wurde 1911 errichtet und nannte sich „Giftbude“, weil es dort wat gift … insbesondere Cognac … 1926 entstand die erste Seebrücke zwischen dem Ortsteil Bad und der vorgelagerten Sandbank …

Sandküste St. Peter-Ording, www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/klima-energie/klimafolgen-anpassung/werkzeuge-der-anpassung/tatenbank/sandkueste-st-peter-ording:Die Küstenlandschaft von St. Peter-Ording liegt am und im Weltnaturerbe Wattenmeer …. Sandbänke, Salzwiesen, Dünen und … Wald …Dieser Naturraum ist … bedroht: Der Klimawandel und der damit verbundene Meeresspiegelanstieg sowie die Zergliederung der Lebensräume und die Ausbreitung standortfremder Arten bedrohen die heimische Arten- und Lebensraumvielfalt. Das Projekt „Sandküste“ setzt daher Maßnahmen um, die zusammenhängende Themen, wie Küstenschutz, Naturschutz, Tourismus, Erholung und Naturerlebnis, behandeln … werden Dünen renaturiert und der behutsame Umbau des Nadelwalds zu einem zukunftsfähigen „Klimawald“ angestoßen … die räumliche Entwicklung des Strandes erforscht und im Bereich Küstenschutz naturangepasste Klimaanpassungsmaßnahmen zur Verstärkung einer Düne entwickelt … umfassende Stakeholder-Beteiligung … … … https://sandkueste-spo.de/

10.8.24, Radeltour nach Westerhever, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerhever: … Gemeinde im Kreis Nordfriesland … im Nordwesten der Halbinsel Eiderstedt gelegen … Leuchtturm Westerheversand, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuchtturm_Westerheversand: … das Wahrzeichen der Halbinsel Eiderstedt … ein See-, Quermarken- und Leitfeuer … Die Feuerhöhe beträgt 41 Meter … Tragweite des Lichts … rund 21 Seemeilen (etwa 39 Kilometer) …

11.8.24, Radeltour: Südküste mit Ehstensiel, dann Tating mit St.-Magnus-Kirche, Hochdorfer Garten und Schweizer Haus, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tating#: Die St.-Magnus-Kirche … ist die älteste Kirche Eiderstedts und vielleicht das älteste Bauwerk auf der Halbinsel … 1103 … zunächst als hölzerne Kapelle erbaut, im Laufe der Jahrhunderte … aus- und umgebaut. Das flachgewölbte einschiffige Hauptschiff und der gewölbte Kastenchor … in romanischem Stil … In der Gotik wurde dem Chor ein gewölbtes Chorpolygon angefügt … spätgotische Flügelaltar … Hochdorfer Garten. Der rund vier Hektar große Park wurde wahrscheinlich 1764 im französischen Stil angelegt … ein Lindenparterre und zehn axial-symmetrisch auf die Hauptfront des Hochdorfer Haubargs ausgerichtete Pflanzquartiere, die von über 120 Meter langen Lindenalleen eingerahmt werden. Der 1764 errichtete Haubarg … war bei seinem Bau … der wahrscheinlich größte auf Eiderstedt …

Cf.:

  • 31.10.2020, St.Peter-Ording, Bird migration, and wash of the waves (incl. no-plot coastal video)
  • 31.10.2020,St.Peter-Ording, Kirche mit Sanduhr: „In einer Stunde mag gar Vieles vorgetragen werden“ / Ecclesiastic hourglass
  • 16.2.2019, St. Peter-Ording, Winterly short visit to the North Sea / Winterlicher Kurzbesuch der Nordseeküste
  • 8.10.2016, From JMW Turner’s sketchbook
  • 7.10.2016, incl. Eiderstedt Peninsula: Bird sighting / Halbinsel Eiderstedt: Vogelkiek
  • 17.-19.3.2016, incl. Local history and historic buildings; Wadden Sea National Park / Ortsgeschichte und historische Gebäude; Nationalpark Wattenmeer
  • 24.-27.3.2013, incl. Organ music / Orgelmusik in St.Peter-Kirche
  • 29.2.-4.3.2012, incl. Beach jogging
  • 2.-3.6.2009, inkl.: St.Peter-Ording (gebadet)