Lutz Dietzold: Is product design art?
The question whether (product) design is art or not is by no means new. Actually, it has preoccupied members of various professions since the birth of design already, tha
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Johano Strasser: German P.E.N. Center – advocate for free speech
The German P.E.N., which has had its office in Darmstadt since 1951, is counted among the most active of the worldwide 140 existing P.E.N. centres. Their charter commits
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Dr. Inge Lorenz: New paths for literature
Darmstadt is a city of literature. Besides the nationally and internationally active and renowned literary institutions based here, there has also been a house of litera
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Ann Dargies: Experiencing theatre
When we talk about independent theatre, we mean professional theatres that are neither state or city nor private theatres. These are projects and ensembles from a large
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John Dew: Darmstadt making theatre history
Is there a company with a staff of 500 from some 35 countries in a city of only 142,000 inhabitants? Yes, indeed! The Darmstadt state theatre happens to be one such rarit
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Dr. Thomas Schäfer: The province as the capital
Darmstadt: one of the “capitals” of the music of our time? Darmstadt: able to compete with new-music metropolises like Cologne, Paris, New York, and Berlin? Darmstadt: sy
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Dr. Wolfram Knauer: Darmstadt and the world of jazz
The Jazzinstitut was founded in 1990, after the city acquired the collection of broadcasting editor, producer and jazz expert Joachim Ernst Berendt in the 1980s. Berendt’
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Cord Meijering: The right tone for making music
The education imparted by the Academy of Musical Arts delights the students in its college division and the pupils in its city music school. But the educational activity
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Michael Bode-Böckenhauer & Alexander Marschall: From powerhouse to house of culture
In 1999, the impressive, heritage-protected brick building of 1904, which used to house the third-largest power station in the world – after New York and Berlin – opened
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Uli Partheil: Music for all at Bessunger Knabenschule
Most importantly, the Knabenschule centre is a place of music. What does it do to promote an active and creative association with music? It provides space – literally – t
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