It is with great regret that we have to cancel the event "How can we live together? Approaches towards a better mutual understanding" cancelled. Due to the uncertain political and military situation in the Middle East and the current threat of flight cancellations by international airlines, our Israeli guests cannot reasonably be expected to travel to Munich. We hope that we will be able to reschedule the event at a later date.
How can we live together?
Approaches towards a better mutual understanding
4 August
16.00 - 18.00 H
Schwere Reiter
Free admission
barrier-free
Co-organiser: Cultural Department of the City of Munich
At a time when tolerance and the ability to engage in non-violent discourse are on the decline, this encounter creates a space for joint reflection on how we live together today, on the culture of remembrance and artistic practice. Academic and artistic contributions, including those from philosopher Ofra Rechter and choreographer and dancer May Zarhy, will fuel an open mic session. Artist Nikolaus Gansterer will simultaneously generate an artistic reflection of the discourse.
Visitors are are kindly invited to share their thoughts in an atmosphere of hospitality and respect. Some guests make prepared contributions. Food and drinks will be provided.
Background information:
On February 10, 1970, three assassins from a Palestinian terrorist organization attempted to hijack an airplane at Munich-Riem airport. Israeli passenger Arie Katzenstein was killed when he had the presence of mind to throw himself on a hand grenade to protect others. The hijacking was prevented through the efforts of flight captain Uriel Cohen and emergency services.
However, ten other people were injured, some of them seriously. Israel's greatest actress, Hanna Maron, born in Berlin in 1923 and a child star of the theater, film and radio scene of the Weimar Republic, was among them. After three months of hospital treatment, her life was saved, but her left leg had to be amputated. A year later, she was back on stage as Seneca’s Medea with a prosthesis.
Far from withdrawing from the public eye or being bitter, from then on, she advocated an end to the occupation and support for autonomous Palestinian statehood. It is the spirit of Hanna Maron‘s mediation leading the TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA and the Cultural Department of the City of Munich to raise the urgent question of „How can we live together?“.
Program:
“Waiting in Action: M in-and-out of time.”
Lecture by Ofra Rechter, Tel Aviv University and Choreogaphic Interventions by May Zarhy
The lecture shows excerpts from the first scene of Fritz Lang's film “M”, where the young Hanna Maron plays a child. Ofra Rechter will illuminate the ideas of the living archive by analyzing the performance of the small actress in the middle of the circle in the opening scene of M. The lecture is presented as an interactive performance with choreographic interventions by May Zarhy.
Historical Contextualization:
Dr. Daniela Rippl, Dr. Andreas Heusler, and Dr. Eva Tyrell, Cultural Department of the City of Munich
Open Mic Session on threats and chances of our current way of living together and communicating with each other
The discursive encounter “How can we live together?” was created as part of the “Living Archive” pilot project. In the frame of this project, the Cultural Department of the City of Munich and Hanna Maron's daughter, the philosopher Ofra Rechter, work on various formats to dynamically commemorate and sustain Hanna Maron's artistic and civil society legacy.