Sustainability
Singer-Songwriter Antje Duvekot
EarthDay@Goethe presents: "Anwesenheit" by Antje Duvekot, commissioned in honor of Earth Day.
Live Performance: May 13, 2021
What better way to communicate the urgency of climate change and the need to restore our Earth than through a song. We asked award-winning singer songwriter Antje Duvekot to compose a song in German and English in honor of Earth Day. A native of Germany living in Somerville, Antje is known for ‘turning fear into resilience and isolation into community’ – listen to her song here!
Anwesenheit
by Antje Duvekot
Hey Coyote, are you out there
Can you lead me to my ancient self
Hey glitter on the water, I think I need help
I keep dry and I keep warm
Got all this shelter from the storm
I can turn summer into winter
and night into day with a swtich
We can turn less into more but we don't anymore understand which is which
Hey perfection of a dew drop, can you lead me to my healing spot?
I thought I was independent, but I guess I forgot
that I've got milkyways in one neuron alone
I've got river beds in my bones
And I am no less a part of this, a part of all this
Show me the road less traveled, let's follow it back to the source
before the balance unraveled, before we lost our course
Auf unserem Sandkorn im Kosmos
Wunder der Anwesenheit
in seiner Zerbrechlich- und Unersetzlichkeit
Hey coyote are you out there
Have we come to a dividing line
Hey pollen on a bee's wing, do we still have the time
to save your habitat with habits that
inhabit that we have the facts
with habits that stop the ransack
We can grow less so you grow back
Show me the road less traveled, let's follow it back to the source
before the balance unraveled before we lost our course
Auf unserem Sandkorn im Kosmos
Wunder der Anwesenheit
in seiner Zerbrechlich- und Unersetzlichkeit
Authors in Conversation: Anja Kampmann & Amy Brady
EarthDay@Goethe presents: "High as the Waters Rise" by Anja Kampmann and "Climate Fiction" by Amy Brady.
Online Conversation, April 22, 2021.
Celebrate with us
The Bauhaus rose from the ashes of World War I in Germany 100 years ago. Its utopian ideas, inspired by founder Walter Gropius, attracted architects, artists and craftsmen from all around the world, challenging them to rethink design, its function in society and how it should be taught.
New England became an important Bauhaus hub after the school was closed down by the National Socialists in 1933. Bauhäusler like Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Xanti Schawinski, and Anni and Josef Albers taught at local universities and left a legacy of Bauhaus buildings.
This centennial year we invite you to explore Bauhaus in New England and (re)discover how its ideals continue to live on.
Presented as part of Wunderbar Together: The Year of German-American Friendship 2018/19 – an initiative funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, implemented by the Goethe-Institut, and supported by the Federation of German Industries (BDI). More information at www.wunderbartogether.org.