MAX RAABE
MAX RAABE
(*1962, Lünen) is a singer and co-founder of the Palast Orchester (1986), but actually always sang – in the youth choir, the church choir, on his bicycle. He studied opera singing in Berlin and has received many awards, above all for his commitment to the music world of the 1920s and 1930s: in 2002, for example, the ECHO KLASSIK award for the CD CHARMING WEILL (together with the Palast Orchester), 2005 the PAUL-LINKE-RING of the city of Goslar, and 2012 the Order of Merit of the Land Berlin. Since 2007 he has been the presenter of the opera gala of the German Aids Foundation, as the successor to Loriot, and has engaged in projects like SCHULE OHNE RASSISMUS (School without racism). During the lockdown in April 2020, he published the MTV Unplugged Version of the title ICH BLEIB ZU HAUS from 2017 with Samy Deluxe in a Keno Hybro remix and enchanted many of us who had to remain at home, a smile on our lips.
MAURICE WEISS
(*1964, Perpignan/France) studied photography, film and design from 1989–1993 with Ulrich Mack and Arno Fischer at the film academy in Dortmund. Member of OSTKREUZ since 1995. In 2004 TABORI ZIEHT UM. WIE SOLL MAN EINE WOHNUNG FINDEN, WENN ES REGNET? was published by Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra. 2005 Hansel Mieth Prize. From 2008–2013 steady freelance photographer for Der Spiegel, concentrating on politics. He has done commissioned work for German and international publications, including Le Monde on political and social topics, mostly in the Mediterranean region about the political upheavals there. Since 2011 he is a guest professor at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux Arts in Lebanon on the importance of photography as a mechanism of memory and on the responsibility of photographers for their pictures. His series SI JAMAIS ILS REVIENNENT on the legacies of the Second World War in Europe was shown in 2020 at the Akademie der Künste Berlin.