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Cultural Bulletin

What moves the German art and culture scene: What is on offer and what is worth thinking about? Andreas Platthaus, Feuilleton Editor of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", offers insights and personal analyses of current events in the German cultural world.

Edition #5

Culture in the Quarter
The Frankfurt Book Fair Goes Online

This year’s Frankfurt Book Fair was meant to have been the highlight of cultural exchange between Canada and Germany so far. Now the physical fair has been cancelled, a virtual fair is taking its place. Our author Andreas Platthaus writes about a slightly different book fair.

Edition #4

Japanese-inspired ceramics by Jan Kollwitz.

Culture in the quarter
Japanese tea ceramics from the Baltic Sea

Germany has a lot to offer lovers of fine ceramics, such as the Meissen Manufactory, the Keramion Museum and Leuchtenburg Castle’s world of porcelain. None has quite the magical appeal of a small workshop in Cismar on the Baltic Sea though.

Edition #3

Mural of Ludwig van Beethoven ahead of his 250th birth anniversary in his birth town Bonn.

Culture in the Quarter
Classical music online

The cities of Leipzig and Bonn both had large classical music festivals in the works for 2020. But silence has settled with the outbreak of the corona pandemic and all the musical highlights, big and small, will have to find a new home on the net.

Edition #2

The Semper Gallery was added to the Dresden Zwinger in the middle of the 19th century specifically to house the city’s treasured works of art.

Culture in the Quarter
Dresden places its treasures in a new light

The Old Master Picture Gallery in the Dresden Zwinger, the palace that serves as an art museum, is celebrating its reopening – and thrilling visitors with a skilful surprise: the exhibition has been rearranged, allowing for a new perspective on its well-known masterpieces.

Edition #1

Culture in the Quarter
“Making van Gogh” and “Inside Rembrandt”

Two exhibitions on classical masters are running simultaneously in Frankfurt and Cologne: “Inside Rembrandt” and “Making Van Gogh” provide exciting insights into the history of art and how great artists emerge. In addition to some of the two painters’ best-known works, the exhibitions also feature many unknown pieces from each artist’s circle.

Author

Andreas Platthaus, born 1966, has been an editor in the feature section of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" since 1997, where he is responsible for literature and literary life. He has published numerous books on historical and aesthetic topics. In 2017 he was appointed Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres by the French government and in 2019 he was a Fellow at Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades.

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