A Day with Sybille Berg

A Day with Sybille Berg

photo: Katharina Lütscher

Imagine you could make a presentation of yourself through all the people you like and you wanted to work with. The Swiss author and theater director Sybille Berg, very famous for here cynical humor and sharp words for everybody and everything she hates and despises, will be presented exactly like this on Sunday at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Among others, such as author Helene Hegemann, blogger Fabian Kölmel, performer Kaye and musician Mary Orcher, she will have an appearance as part of a full day program of perfomances, readings and a final Gala night. Also, the mean queen of German cinema Katja Riemann will be part of it, which rises the hopes for some nice laughter and bitchy moments. Some brief details of the event after the jump. Read on…

Beauty and the Beast

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street art by Miss Van, photo by Dr Case at Flickr

Who is more successful? The pretty woman that everybody just loves because of her beauty? Or the ugly one who might be more intelligent or funnier but probably depressed and unsatisfied? Exactly these are the thoughts that young and enterprising women have to face. Why I think I should become less superficial and which two special young authors I would like to compare, you’ll find out in the German version of this article.

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