MAURICE WEISS
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.
ZACHI, MIELE UND CHRISCHI, SOUND & PRODUCTION
are responsibable in concerts for sound and production. These are their nicknames in the scene. The three of them stand for all the people who make concerts, theatre evenings, films or exhibitions possible. They stand behind the scenery; their contributions are not visible. But they are just as important as the artists in the limelight. Cultural events cannot be realized without their help in setting them up. A concert without sound technicians cannot be heard, the actors on the stage cannot be seen without the lighting technician, nor can the artworks in an exhibition. Not to forget the teams in the ticket office, the cloakroom or the cleaning service. They are all a valuable part of art and culture.
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.
CARSTEN NICOLAI
(*1965, Karl-Marx-Stadt) is an artist and musician. He creates his works on the interface between the visual arts, music and the natural sciences. His hybrid objects transform scientific phenomena that are barely visible to the human eye into aesthetic images of cool beauty and minimalistic elegance. He has participated in the internationally important exhibitions documenta X and the 49th and 50th Art Biennale in Venice, and his works have been shown worldwide in solo and group exhibitions. For his musical oeuvre he uses the pseudonym Alva Noto. Together with Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider he founded the label “raster-noton. archiv für ton und nichtton”. Carsten Nicolai composed the music for the multiple Oscar-nominated film THE REVENANT, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritus.
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.
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.
KATHARINA THALBACH
(*1954, Berlin) is an actress and theatre director and an icon of German theatre. For her the world is a stage. Her father is the director Benno Besson, her mother the actress Sabine Thalbach. At the age of 13 she became a master student of Helene Weigel. She has played primarily in the Berliner Ensemble and the Volksbühne, often working with Matthias Langhoff, and has appeared in films, with star status. In 1976, the year the GDR authorities withdrew songwriter Wolf Biermann’s citizenship, the cultural sector in East Germany became highly politicised. That year Katharina Thalbach left the GDR. It did not hurt her career. She played at the Berlin Schiller Theatre and in Hamburg, Cologne and Zurich, and appeared in cinema and television films. At the end of the 1980s she began directing theatre. She performed and directed.
In 2020 the brakes were pulled on her for the first time in her long career. Waiting for the theatres to open again, she read for the podcast of OLLARICKCHEN – DIE WILDE VON DER WEINREIHE, short episodes about the clever, freedom-loving little scamp Ulrike, written by Sarah McGrane. But this was certainly no replacement for the stage. For a year she has been waiting – and her audience as well – for the premiere of MORD IM ORIENTEXPRESS, the German version of Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express”, in the Berlin Schiller Theater. Katharina Thalbach directs and plays the main part of Detective Hercule Poirot. It is also a tribute to the most successful whodunit novelist of all time, for Agatha Christie wrote her first detective novel a hundred years ago, in 1920.
In his photo for MISS YOU, Maurice Weiss shows Katharina Thalbach on the high seas, as it were. It is symbolic for the entire cultural sector.