• Thu 29 08 2024 / 7:30 – 9:30 pm •
with Kurt Tallert
With KURT TALLERT
Hosted by JULIAN BRIMMERS
Every month, the ADKDW invites you to a joint listening session at the Kompakt Record Store of the legendary Cologne label for electronic music. In each session, an invited guest will play selected songs, song fragments, or instrumentals and discusses them from a personal, music-historical, and/or political point of view.
Since 2008, Kurt has been releasing hip hop in German language as a DJ, MC and producer under the name Retrogott. Some of his six albums with DJ and producer Hulk Hodn are now said to have reached a classic status in music. Kurt Tallert celebrated his literary debut in 2023 with Spur und Abweg (Dumont). In an autofictional text with essayistic features, he reflects on the story of his father, who was persecuted as a child and teenager during National Socialism as a so-called "half-Jew".
Julian Brimmers is an author, journalist, translator and filmmaker from Cologne. His texts on pop culture and literature have appeared in German and English in publications including Die Zeit/Zeit Online, The Paris Review, SPON, WDR and The Creative Independent. In 2020, his documentary debut We Almost Lost Bochum was released in cinemas, which he co-directed with Benjamin Westermann. He was the host of the first serial Spotify Originals podcast Trauma Loveparade, which was awarded the German Podcast Prize.
Learning to Listen Series
In radio broadcasts, podcasts and live events, Learning to Listen deals with forms of listening and non-listening - and the knowledge that can be drawn from them. The main aim of Learning to Listen is to initiate didactic processes intended to help us understand why certain sounds, songs, and narratives are heard and others are not. Together we will reflect on our internalized ways of thinking, of learning to listen and to un-learn.
Thur 27 06 2024 | 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Kompakt Record Store
In German language
Admission free of charge
