RhineBuzz

Meet Thomas Herbrich - 'Master of Manipulation', Digital Photo Pro

Hovering Island
©Thomas Herbrich

A very special event especially for RhineBuzz!

Meet Thomas Herbrich - Düsseldorf photographer whose projects have included work on Roland Emmerich's blockbuster "Independent Day".

Thomas Herbrich will not only treat the RhineBuzz community to a fascinating talk and presentation on his extensive work, but he will also give us an insight into Thomas the entertainer, the artist, the people's person. He loves to share his work, his 'trade secrets', his experiences. He is a regular speaker at the world's greatest photography festivals and exhibitions, at a recent date the authorities were obliged to actually close down his space as the queue for visitors wishing to reach his stand exceeded safety limits!!

I've had the great pleasure of meeting Thomas several times now - he is funny, charming and extremely giving.

Thomas loves the idea of RhineBuzz and has agreed to give a talk at a very special rate.

He often gives talks to an audience of up to 1000, but we have chosen Bar Zogel as a location in order to make this event very personal, so do make sure you book your place soon. Seating is very limited.

I feel there will be no 'last minute spaces' as are often requested at our events!

The presentation will begin at 5pm and last one hour and then Thomas would love to have a drink and chat with us :)

Cost €18.00

This event is generously sponsored by the International School on the Rhine in Neuss - ISR

Please email events@rhinebuzz.com for reservations

Thomas Herbrich at Bar Zogel at 5pm

12 May 2013

Schirmerstr 1

40211 Düsseldorf

Unique Records 25 Years

Henry Storch's Unique Records turns 25 years old this year!
Celebrations kick off on May 8 at the KuFa in Krefeld at 8pm, expect groovin' jewels from Unique, the last independent record label in Europe with worldwide distribution.

What's up:

@ Mainfloor
AL SUPERSONIC & THE TEENAGERS (Spain | Unique Records)
THE PRIME MOVERS (PRISONERS/UK) original line up feat.: Graham Day, Allan Crockford, Simon Howard

--> afterwards: Monsters of Funk & Soul Allnighter

KuFa Krefeld

Dießemer Str. 13

47799 Krefeld

Tickets €16:00 can be purchased in advance here
Evening box office €20:00

expats welcome day 2013

The Düsseldorf Office of Economic Development is staging an Expats Welcome Day at the Malkasten on April 17 2013 from 11am to 8pm.

Some 40 services will be presenting what they have to offer from health insurance and taxes to what to do in your free time. I will be giving a short talk on RhineBuzz at 6.30pm when we will showing some of our past events and inviting you to upcoming dates. We will also be announcing a new networking service in partnership with Dissetare. This will include small, exclusive events.

The full programme is here.

If you are a service relevant to the expat community and would like a stand for the day, please contact: expats@zack-brumm.net or call Conny Hildmann on 0221 30 23 98 60 who speaks English.

expats welcome day 2013

Malkasten

Jacobistraße 6a

40211 Düsseldorf

Setting up a Business in Düsseldorf

One in ten entrepreneurs in Germany is not of German origin, the prosperous city of Düsseldorf especially is a very attractive location for new businesses. If you are thinking of turning your own idea into a business, the City's Office of Economic Development offer a whole package of services to help you on your way.

Begin with these one day workshops in English. I've heard good things about the seminars last year, these are the dates for 2013:

16 April 2013
02 July 2013
24 September 2013
26 November 2013

Please register here.
Places are limited. Cost €20.00
You can download the flyer and programme here as a pdf.

Contact and registration

City of Düsseldorf

Office of Economic Development

Monika Bosbach phone:

+49 (0)211.89-9 58 92

fax: +49 (0)211.89-3 99 92

email: monika.bosbach@duesseldorf.de

Seminar Location

German RTM GmbH

Hansaallee 159

40549 Düsseldorf

Ballet on the Rhine b.15

@ Gert Weigert

The Ballet am Rhein presents five pieces under the direction of award-winning Martin Schläpfer with b.15

The programme includes four world premieres, with work from the young choreographer Antoine Jully who charmed us with his piece Inside in the 2011/12 season. This time he will be presenting Rebound-Topple-Splash with music from Stravinsky describing these three physical states in a form of young, dynamic dance.

Personally, I am greatly looking forward to the piece Inclination by Regina van Berkel, whose work Frozen Echo from b.07 has to be one of my all time favourite pieces.

For more details on the programme, please see here.

Join us for an afternoon of spectacular dance at the Opera House Düsseldorf

RhineBuzz is offering discounted tickets in the stalls and upper tiers for the Sunday matinée on April 21 at 3pm.

Please email opera@rhinebuzz.com for price details.

The International Online Music Academy (iolma) Concert and Opening Party

Join RhineBuzz for a celebration of world class music -

beginning with a

mix of baroque, Latin American and classical guitar and

culminating with a

vibrant fiesta of jazz and rock classics

April 13 at 7.30pm

and all for free!

I receive all sorts of emails asking for support within the international community, but just recently one project has truly captured my imagination - IOLMA, international online music academy.

Students of the Robert Schumann School of Music, award winning guitarists Mircea Gogoncea, Martin Zimny and Aleksandar Vidojevic presented their project to me one Sunday afternoon and as I left their tiny studio, not only inspired by the idea to share their privileged musical education to students who simply do not have the possibility to experience some of the best teachers in the world, I was also stunned at their dedication and business savvy as they presented the 'how does it work' to me in the studio and their vision for the future and how they would like to see their idea of bespoke online music tuition go global.

Martin Zimny, Mircea Gogoncea and Aleksandar Vidojevic of iolma
http://www.facebook.com/iolma

Partner in the project is Joachín Clerch, winner of the Echo Prize for Classical Music 2009 - the prestigious German music prize, and professor at the Robert Schumann School of Music. His students constantly rave that he is simply one of the most respected teachers of the classical guitar in the world today and when you consider that his students win the greatest competitions for classical guitar on a regular basis, you know that they are not exaggerating!

“Joaquín Clerch is undoubtedly …

… one of the world’s leading figures, perhaps even the leading figure, among the guitarists of his generation.” (Eliot Fisk)

The International Online Music Academy (IOLMA) Concert and Opening Party

with performances by professor Joaquín Clerch, award winning guitarists Mircea Gogoncea, Martin Zimny, Aleksandar Vidojevic.

Entertaining us for the party will be jazz singer and renowned classical performer Luis Regidor, winner of the second place at the Montreaux Jazz Festival 2010, a real showman who also loves to rock!! He will be joined by friends and special guests of the Düsseldorf live music scene.

Can you really miss out on this uniquely diverse evening?

The event will also feature the opening of their crowdfunding campaign designed to raise funds for the development of a realistic system for a better, more extensive music education system for talented students worldwide.

April 13 at 7.30pm

Kammermusiksaal

Robert Schumann Hochschule

Fischerstr. 110

40476 Düsseldorf

Four Farces - English Theatre presented by the English Speakers Circle

We are most fortunate to have the ESC here in the city. Susan Jones and her team at the English Speakers Circle are one of the most well established groups in the city for English speakers. They hold regular events, including presenting first class English theatre from national and international companies touring Europe.

On March 22 at 7pm they bring you the European Arts Company who will be performing Four Farces: 'an evening of pure pleasure. Four English one act farces from the 19th Century including two by John Maddison Morton who Kenneth Tynan described as 'better than Feydeau'. You'll see duelling pistols, mistaken identity, double-crossing, intoxication, cross dressing, romance and a shot in the dark. Played in our usual breathlessly imaginative, inventive style, this promises to be a night of raucous laughter and great fun.'

'European Arts Company really takes the audience by storm. A surreal performance, witty and hilarious, full of energy, talent and creativity.' - Culture Guide

Tickets, €9.00, available from Susan Jones 0211 31 79 322

Saal 1

Weiterbildungszentrum,

(behind the main station)

Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz,

Düsseldorf

Die Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW Düsseldorf 2013

Peter Royen, Kunstpreis der Künstler 2013
©Peter Hense

Last year this show at the Museum Kunstpalast was one of my favourites of the entire year. Jam packed with all genres of visual arts this show is a broad mix of painting, sculpture, collage, photography, new media and graphics by 170 artists from the state of Northrhine Westfalia, especially the area around Düsseldorf.
Here is an overview of what you could see last year.

Grosse Kunst is a show rich in tradition, founded in 1900. Since 1906 it has been shown in one form or another at the Museum Kunstpalast.

Peter Royen meets RhineBuzzer Patrícia from Portugal

This exhibition offers a very special peek at the regional arts' world. It is organised in its 111 year now and has become the largest show of its kind, that is a show organised for artists by artists where all the work is for sale. In the past it has been possible to pick up work from emerging artists who went on to become big names in the art world.

RhineBuzz is pleased to be offering the first tours in English of this multi-faceted show with Michael Kortländer, chairman of the non-profit organisation Verein zur Veranstaltung von Kunstausstellungen and myself, Caroline West.

Johannes Lenhart
Im Zusammenhang

For everyone who asks me where is the arts scene in Düsseldorf? Or tell me about the history or the arts in the city, this is the show for you!

Su jeong Shin-Goldbach
Good Night

RhineBuzz tours with Michael Kortländer

Sunday February 24 at 3pm

Friday March 15 at 7pm

The show runs from February 24 to March 17

Museum Kunstpalast

Ehrenhof 4-5

40479 Düsseldorf

Entry €6.00 English Tour €5.00

Special offer: Entry for 2 and 1 colour catalogue of the show €24.00

The RhineBuzz tours are generously sponsored by ISR

International School on the Rhine in Neuss

Xerxes

Valer Barna-Sabadus ©Hans Georg Michel

The Deutsche Oper am Rhein presents Händel's baroque opera Xerxes on February 1 at the Opera House Düsseldorf with the fabulous countertenor Valer Barna-Sabadus.

Set in 480 B.C., this tragic comedy is loosely based on the a story of the Persian Xerxes 1. It is a tale of raging jealousy, trickery and love that is not to be. A rich and production is promised us with the chance to see a workshop on the workings behind the piece on January 21 at 6pm, also at the opera House.

RhineBuzz offer you the best seats in the house at a discounted price as well as special prices on seats in the upper tiers and for students.
Please enquire at opera@rhinebuzz.com for details.

Here a taster of the moving voice of Valer Barna-Sabadus

Do you have something to say to the City of Düsseldorf?

I receive numerous emails, almost daily, from folks who are new in town and would like to know anything from how to meet people, what's on in the city, to where can I can my child go to ballet classes, or, surely the funniest question had to be .... where can I buy a plastic sheep?!!!

The City of Düsseldorf is doing what it can to make you feel at home in your chosen city and so I am invited to take part in regular meetings which address the needs of the expats in the city with the Local Support Group on the OPENCities project: take a look here.

You are asked to take part in this survey to assess the needs of the international community. Please take the time to do this, it is your chance to make a difference.

Thank you and Happy New Year to you all!

Merry Christmas!

RhineBuzz wishes everyone a very

Merry Christmas and a most peaceful New Year!

2012 has been busy, 2013 will be busier!

From January we can found in the heart of the Altstadt at the

The English Language Forum, Neustrasse 39, 40213 Düsseldorf

A Great British Pantomime - Cinderella

Sinclair Arts Theater Company and RhineBuzz present a great british pantomime for Christmas 2012!

The panto Cinderella will bring smiles to all your faces

Audience participation is essential!

Come and join us at the theatre at the International School Düsseldorf on December 15 and 16 at 7.30pm

Tickets can be purchase online here and from
The English Language Forum, Neustrasse 39 in the Altstadt.

Sponsored by

http://mein-berufsziel.de/

Trailing Spouses Workshop 2013

Postponed until March 2013

Following the excellent feedback from the first event, (this is the most comfortable I have felt since being here ...") The International School on the Rhine in Neuss (ISR) and RhineBuzz will be presenting the second Trailing Spouses Workshop on January 8 2013 from 9.30am to 3pm at E.ON

Whether you have been here for a while, or have just arrived, you will leave the day with us, not only having met folks in a similar position to yourself, but you will take with you much information about essentials here in Germany such as how the health insurance system works to filling your free time in this culturally-rich city to tips on boutique shopping off the Königsallee and what to order at the butchers and much, much more ....

Speakers include Heide Koch, from the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Peter Inhoven, master butcher extraordinaire, Mike Woodiwiss, Spectrum International, advisor to the politicians on the complex German health insurance system, John Vilardo, yoga instructor and Christina Dehn of Loretto 360˚

We will have all kinds of goodies to give away including tickets for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, entry tickets for Museum Kunstpalast and places on city tours in English.

Lunch will be provided as will childcare!

Please register here.

This event is kindly sponsored by E.ON

Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk at K20

Düsseldorf

11 - 20 January 2013

11.01.13 Autobahn (1974)

12.01.13 Radio Aktivität (1975)

13.01.13 Trans Europa Express (1977)

16.01.13 Die Mensch-Maschine (1978)

17.01.13 Computerwelt (1981)

18.01.13 Techno Pop (1986)

19.01.13 The Mix (1991)

20.01.13 Tour de France (2003)

with 3-D visualisations

Tickets on sale 10am 10.11.12

www.kraftwerk.tickets.de

Andreas Gursky at Museum Kunstpalast

Andreas Gursky is without a doubt, one of the world's most important photographic artists of the current day.
His work, his painterly photographs are intense, certainly eye catching, thought-provoking and indeed spectacular on both an emotional and physical scale and yet, also miniscule in detail.
International broadsheets announce record prices for his work, arts students think of him as a great influence on their studies and discoveries.

And, Gursky is a Düsseldorf artist. He came to the city as a young child, studied here at the art academy after initial studies at the Folkwang University in Essen. He works here from his studio of over 30 years in Oberkassel and is now professor for free art at the art academy where he once was a student himself of hugely influential Bernd and Hilla Becher.

Consequently the media interest at the press conference for the Andreas Gursky exhibition at Museum Kunstpalast was quite something. These affairs tend to be quite tame in Düsseldorf, but not only did only over 130 representatives turn up but the questions were also penetrating to the point of Gursky declining to answer, on the grounds that the question was 'too personal' at one point.

Each work, these days, is the product of a lengthy process which begins, he enchanting told us, with a photograph taken with his mobile phone! He then investigates the depth of the image, what he sees and what it could be. He may go to extraordinary lengths to take photographs such as in the new piece 'Katar' on show at Museum Kunstpalast for the very first time. Gursky climbed 40 meters down a ladder into an enormous gas tank to capture these images which he finally made into the work of a golden-coloured space. Down on the ground one can spot a minuscule man, cleaning the gas tank from within a tent. It's an extraordinary image. Detailed and astounding.

This is, without a doubt, a show of great depth. Simply put, Gursky creates a piece that imitates what the eye actually sees when positioned from a bird's eye view. This is an image a camera not capture in all complexity. By working with numerous images of the same scene and then spending 'months in exile' in his studio, Gursky then comes out with an often spectacular piece of work that is both immediate and yet deep; his wishes that his work will stand the test of time and indeed they are a great document of our massive world today and the intricate creatures, we human beings, that create extraordinary scenarios in such an all encompassing way.
Finally, Gursky told us that he still likes to believe in the one shot photograph!

A must-see show.