Bochum
02.01.2012
This is the story of a boy who wants to go to war at the age of 13 and is sent to Germany instead. Omid Pouryousefi remembers the year 1986. „I wanted to be at the front.“ His home country Iran is at war with its neighbour Iraq. In school, the children are sworn to the conflict.
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19.04.2011
The cultural life in Bochum experiences a lot of changes these days. From the new off-scene hot spot Rotunde and the foundation of the Zukunftsakademie NRW to the planned music centre. In the thick of things, Head of Cultural Affairs Michael Townsend who comments on the cancellation of the planned
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14.01.2011
At the opening ceremony for the Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 on the premises of the industrial monument Zollverein, the former prime minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Jürgen Rüttgers, promised that millions of Euros would be provided for the development of the creative quarters in the area (
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28.12.2010
Mike Huckaby is a DJ and producer from Detroit and is considered an extraordinary talent of the Detroit Electronic Music. Besides lots of quality releases and touring throughout the world, he is also committed to teaching music production in the local youth benefit project Youthville in Detroit,
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17.07.2010
Could the story of the Love Parade in the Ruhr Area be symptomatic of the region? In 2008, the closure of the B1 for the Dortmund-based Techno event was a huge success for everybody involved, with 1.6 million visitors. One year later, the event in Bochum had to be cancelled due to organizational
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01.07.2010
ByteFM, an internet radio station based in Hamburg, went online in January 2008 – and just some weeks ago, the Ruhr-Studio in Bochum started broadcasting via the worldwide web, too.
ByteFM’s Klaus Walter talks about the move to the Ruhr area and the reasons for streaming journalistic
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20.06.2010
The world wide web has already changed our everyday life seriously and has left its marks on our routines. Shopping, sending applications, booking trips and hotels, finding an apartment which has a good online rating – without the internet, we’re almost lost. But has this development
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27.05.2010
The first Echo Jazz award was a signal for the new attractiveness of the Ruhr metropolitan area. On May 5th 2010, one tried to bring Jazz into the spotlight of the wider public with an award in Bochum.
A competent and cool show brought national and international Jazz musicians together
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27.05.2010
Nowadays, stage music is much more than a mere background to the theatrical action. The focus has shifted, the music gets more and more attention, being a production on its own. Does this change lead to new forms of staging? And if that was the case: will the perception of music change? Does it
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16.05.2010
In providing the Marienkirche (Marien Church; translator’s note) in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle - in the Victoria Quarter in Bochum - thanks to the city of Bochum, URBANATIX got the perfectly central training location. In Bochum, one has been putting an emphasis on revitalising places
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