WAYS OF LISTENING

The DAI Heidelberg and the Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House Association invite you to the unique format WAYS OF LISTENING. In talks, readings and performances, legendary interviewer Paul Holdengräber, psychoanalyst Josh Cohen, composer Cathy Milliken and Hannah Arendt expert Samantha Rose Hill, among others, will come together. Exiled voices such as those of Syrian author Yasmin Merei and Chinese writer Xu Xing add global perspectives to the dialog.
The events explore listening as a political practice, as a therapeutic art and as a musical experience. A celebration of attention in times of increasing polarization.

Welcome to the celebration of an underestimated human gift with conversations, art and the loud and quiet nuances.

Program:

Thu, March 27, 8 pm Samantha Rose Hill
What remains. Hannah Arendt as a poet

Fri, March 28, 8 p.m. Cathy Milliken
A Celebration of Listening. The art of listening in music

Sat, March 29, 11 a.m. Samantha Rose Hill
Listening to the Past: A Walk through Hannah Arendt’s Heidelberg

Sat, March 29, 6 p.m. Marko Ciciliani
WHY FRETS? Requiem for the Electric Guitar & WHY FRETS? – Downtown 1983

Sat, March 29, 8 pm Josh Cohen
The art of listening: A conversation between the professions

Sun, March 30, 11 am Yasmin Merei & Xu Xing
Listening to Exile: Voices between the worlds

Sun, March 30, 5 pm George Prochnik
How Noisy Everyting Grows

Fri, April 04, 6 pm Winfried Kretschmann & Bernhard Pörksen
The art of listening – and dialog in politics and society