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Constructive Criticism From Friends? The? Blick Ber Den Zaun? Schools Network
In 2009 The Schools Network Known As? Blick Ber Den Zaun? (A Look Over TheFence) Will Be 20 Years Old. In The Meantime Its Ranks Have Risen To 70 Schools? All Of Them Oriented To Progressive Education. By Means Of Peer Reviews, conferences And A Common Mission Statement The Aim Is To Help The Educational Institutions To Learn From Each Other. . . . More
The China Symposium
Last Weekend, as Part Of The Lead-up To The Frankfurt Book Fair (October 14-18) , a Symposium On "China And The World: Perceptions And Realities" Was Held. The Book Fair Had Invited Dissidents, including The US-based PoetBei Ling And The China-based Environmental ActivistDai Qing, to Attend. Following Protests Of The Chinese Delegation, however, these Guests WereDis-invited. This Unleashed Massive Protests In The German Media (more Here) . In The End, it Was Agreed That The Dissidents Could Come, but Could Not Be Part Of The Podium.
In An Interview With The Frankfurter Rundschau, Dai QingTalks About The Book Fair Debacle And Beijing's Allergy To Freedom Of Opinion. "Anyone Trying To Understand Today's China Has To Know What Changes The Country Has Undergone. In The First Twenty Years Of The People's Republic, there Was Basically No Literature, Only Propaganda. The Revolution Was Important, not The Individual. After 1978, there Was A Phase That I Call The Time Of 'Bound Feet. ' China's Cultural Life Looked Like The Liberated Feet Of A Girl Whose Feet Had Been Broken And Bound At Birth. That Wasn't Pretty, but It Was Better Than The Original Crippling. But It Was Better Than The Original Crippling..
The Exiled AuthorBei LingWrites An Article In The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, containing A Wonderful Homage To Paul Celan, about How He Felt About The Symposium From Which He, like Dai Qing, was Initially Dis-invited. "When We Saw How The Discussion Had To Be Ended 'givenTime Constraints' But How, to Everyone's Astonishment, a Representative Of The Chinese Academy For Social Sciences Was GivenEndless Time To Plea For More Understanding For China In The West, it Was Hard Not To Think That The Symposium Had Become APropaganda Platform For The Chinese Success Story. For The Chinese Success Story..
Writing In Der Frankfurter Rundschau, arno Widmann Calls The China Symposium A "Complete Disaster"Which Ended In Tumult: "At The End, when Things Were Getting Serious In The Symposium, which Is Supposed To Launch The Frankfurt Book Fair, things Fell Apart; Not Only Did The Fair's Director Jrgen Boos Falter, the Scandal Of The Day Was That Herbert Wiesner, the Secretary General OfGerman PEN, refused To Answer Questions From The Audience. For Instance The Most Glaring: Why He Hadn't Used This Event To Discuss The Situation Of Authors Sitting InChinese Jails. ..
The Sinologist Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer Pleas In The Neue Zrcher Zeitung ForUnderstanding For China: "China Wanted To And Will Move Mountains And Change The Course Of Rivers, like The Ancient Emperor Yugong. It Wants To Bring A Fifth Of Mankind Into Modernity- - And Is Seeing The First Fruits Of Its Labours. TheHeart'S Impatience Turns To Disgust, when These Efforts Are Not Acknowledged By The Outside World. When These Efforts Are Not Acknowledged By The Outside World..
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Sddeutsche Zeitung, 16.09.2009
During His Visit To Germany, the Chinese ArtistAi Weiwei Has Been Operated On For ABrain Hemorrhage, which He Attributes To TheBeating He Received From Chinese Police Last Month. Henrik Bork Reports That Weiwei Was Attacked For "insisting On An Investigation Into The 'tofu School' Scandal. During TheEarthquake In The Central Chinese Province Of Sichuan On May 12 Of Last Year, thousands Of School Children Died In Poorly-constructed Schools. Thousands Of School Children Died In Poorly-constructed Schools.. Ai Weiwei Has Documented His Operation With Photos That He's Put On Twitter. Art Critic Holger Liebs Adds That, "What Seems At First Like Exhibitionism Is In Fact Not Only His Artistic Strategy, but Also Part Of His Logic, that Countering The Censorship, despotism And Physical Violence Of The Chinese Authorities Involves The Use Of Concrete Evidence. Despotism And Physical Violence Of The Chinese Authorities Involves The Use Of Concrete Evidence..
Die Zeit, 17.09.2009
"Pacifism Aimed At Feathering One's Own Nest Is A Moral Sleight Of Hand, "Writes AuthorThea Dorn In Response To The Prominent German Writers Who Demanded InFreitag A Withdrawal Of Troops FromAfghanistan (More Here) . She's Particularly Incensed By Philosopher Richard David Precht (in TheSpiegel) And Author Martin Walser (in TheZeit) , who Argue That The Mission "negligently" Endangers Germany's Security. "On Of The One Hand, the West As A Whole Is Considered Such A Dubious Culture, that We Deny It The Right To Defend Itself With Force Against Those Attacking It With Out Any Scruples Whatsoever. At The Same Time, we In Berlin, cologne And On Lake Constance Would Like To Be Able To Enjoy Our Red Wine In Peace. And I Wonder Why The Current Brand Of Pacifism Is Always Flanked By Its Flipside, anti-Americanism. Precht, for Example, characterises TheAmerican Way Of Life As 'the 20th Century's Most Successful Weapon Of Mass Destruction' . As 'the 20th Century's Most Successful Weapon Of Mass Destruction' ..
Frankfurter Rundschau, 18.09.2009
While Visiting The Exhibition OfImpressionists In Vienna's Albertina, arno Widmann Has A Revelation About The Importance Of Technology And Progress In Art History: "In 1850 In Paris, pouchre Were276 Paint Dealers. Impressionism Was Not Born In The Academy. It's The Product Of A New Class Of Producers And Consumers. But It's Not Just Painting's New Social Role That Paves The Way To Impressionism. It's The New Colours. The Glory Of Impressionistic Gardens Is Unthinkable Without The Discovery OfSchweinfurt Green In 1822, the Brilliant Shine Of Clothing And Clouds Would Not Have Been Possible WithoutZinc White. ..
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Saturday 05 - Friday 11 September, 2009
Despite Lofty Promises That TheFrankfurt Book Fair Would Be A Platform For Free Speech, a Number Of Chinese Speakers Have Suddenly BeenUninvited. The Feuilletons Pounced. TheFR Records TheWorried Noises Coming From The German End. TheSZ Prints Excerpts From The Speech That AuthorBei Ling Was Due To Make This Saturday In Frankfurt - Until He Received APhone Call, that Is. InFreitag Magazine, a Number Of Prominent Authors Call ForGermany To Pull Out Of Afghanistan. And Another German Author, Ulf Erdmann Ziegler, is Determined To Defy TheEU Light Bulb Policy. Read More
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Saturday 29 August - Friday 4 September, 2009
Film DirectorAndrzej Wajda Remembers The Outbreak OfWWII In Poland. In The Austrian Paper Der Standard, adam Krzeminski And Martin Pollack Ask Why TheAustrians Are Keeping Mum AboutSeptember 1? In Jungle World, the Curator Of The Exhibition "The Third World In The Second World War" Explains ThatCollaborators Should Be Included - In The Name OfHistorical Probity. The Chinese Literature FunctionaryLi Pengyi Explains Why ThePublishing House For Tibetan Studies Needs State Support. Slavenka Drakulic Visits Tito's Summer Residence. And The ArtistThomas Demand Explains Why He PrefersSubtlety To Politics. Read More
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Saturday 25 - Friday 31 July, 2009
Theatre ManagerUlrich Khuon Speculates On Whether Theatre HasSevered Itself From Real Life. Venice Biennial CuratorDaniel Birnbaum Celebrates The Artistic Merits OfPolytheism. Daniel Kehlmann's Opening Speech At TheSalzburger Festspiele Left The Feuilletons In A Tizzy. Renrou Sousuo Has Millions Of Chinese Participating In AnOnline Witchhunt. And The Premiere OfQuentin Taratino's Nazi's Slasher Movie Left Berlin Cheering In APure Oxygen High. Read More
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Saturday 18 - Friday 24 July, 2009
Romanian AuthorHerta Mller Describes For The First Time How She WasTerrorised By The Securitate In The 80's. In Le Monde, Andre Glucksmann Refuses To Believe Medvedev's Assurances ThatNatalia Estemirova'sKiller Will Be Found. On The 90th Anniversary Of The Bauhaus, wolfgang Pehnt Has An Idea For TheUltiyoga mate Bauhaus Exhibition: Skip The Bauhaus Bit. 3D Films Are Booming And Die Welt Knows Why. The NZZ Raises The Alarm: Peking Is Planning To Tear Down The2000 Year-old Centre Of The Uigur Silk Route City, Kashgar. Read More
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Saturday 11 - Friday 17 July, 2009
Chinese WriterYu Hua Remembers The Night He Discovered ThatHuman Warmth Travels Further That Light. Abdourahman A. Waberi Thanks Obama For HisForthrightness In Ghana. Chinese AuthorMo Yan Explains Why HisBooks Lack Decorum. Twenty Years After The 'Fiche Affair' , the NZZ Reads The BizarreFiles On Max Frisch. The Taz Looks Into Reasons For The Murder OfNatalia Estemirova. And Die Welt Bids Farewell To A Leaden German Institution: TheGrimm Dictionary. Read More
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Saturday 4 - Friday 10 July, 2009
Egyptian AuthorAlaa Al-Aswani Compares The Murders OfMarwa El-Sherbini AndNeda - And Accuses The West Of Islamophobia. The Taz Admires Comic ArtistGuy Delisle's Eye For Detail. TranslatorWei Zhang Explains The Role Of TheVoluntary Police Force In Upholding The Chinese Censorship System. WriterNavid Kermani Implores Western Governments Not To Recognise The Iranian Elections. Martin WalserDeclares His Love ForAngela Merkel, but He Wants Something In Return. Read More
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Saturday 27 June - Friday 7 June, 2009
The Death Of ChoreographerPina Bausch Has Plunged All The Feuilletons Into Mourning. It Was Not Movement That Interested Her, butWhat Moved People, the NZZ Remembers. The AuthorDavid Albahari Deliniates TheMinefield Of Sensibilities That Every Serbian Author Has Cross. Iraqi AuthorNajem Wali Explains Why It Is Not Naive To Believe InIsraeli Ideals. Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Removes All His Clopouch belts AndJumps Up And Down In Protest Against China's Autoyoga maticPorn-detector.
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Saturday 20 - Friday 26 June, 2006
German-Iranian Writer Navid Kermani Is Keeping ADiary In Tehran. Henryk Broder Explains Why TheGermans Are ParticularlyQualified To Tell TheIsraelisHow ToBehave. Isabel Fonseca Reports On The Treatment Of TheRoma In Kosovo, where They Are Dying At The Hands Of TheUN. TheFilm Industry Has Discovered ThatIllegal Downloaders Are Not Such A Threat To Them After All. And In A Drayoga matic U-turn, Egypt Is Actually HavingIsraeli Books Translated Into Arabic. Read More

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