Dialogue Book Club: Moon Tiger

“Catching up where we left off in July, Dialogue’s Book Club will be meeting in the familiar surroundings of Café Hilde to talk about our summer selection, Penelope Lively’s Booker Prize-winning Moon Tiger. Claudia Hampton has lived a full life as historian, reporter, lover, mother. Now she is dying in a London hospital, where she remembers the events in her life, particularly a romance with a tank commander during World War II, a passion that defined much of the rest of her life.”

‘Moon Tiger is one of the very best Booker winners. Few books I’ve read recently have given me so much pleasure. (Or pain — this is literature of the first order, after all.)’ -The Guardian

For more information: bookclub@dialogueberlin.com

Wednesday 29 September
19:00 – 21:00

Café Hilde
Metzer Straße 22
10405 Berlin

FREE ENTRY

Music at Hilde: Ken Parsons

17.09.2010 @ 21:30

KEN PARSONS is a Celtic Harper, singer and allround entertainer. What can you expect? Beautiful harp songs, deadly witty short poems and crafted original songs in every posible style, funny, moving, thought provoking

Ken is multi-instrumental and wth 20 years of singing experience he has a powerful and versatile voice- you can detect his background as a trained choir singer in his more delicate emotional songs but the next minute you hear the raucous harsh, punk, rock and roll and comedy voice he perfected after years as busker and entertainer in pubs and clubs. His own songs are well honed and he does covers as they should be done. Few singers can match his delivery, diction and rapid fire lyricism.

FREE ENTRY

16. September 2010, 19.30, Café Hilde
Radu Aldulescu (Rumänien) MODERATION: Mirko Schwanitz 
Übersetzung: Eva Wemme
Aldulescus Roman „Ana Maria und die Engel“ beschreibt in mutiger und kraftvoller Prosa die Schicksale zweier Frauen. 1987 flieht Mariana aus Rumänien nach Wien. Trotz ihres brutalen Überlebenskampfes als Ausländerin und gegen ihre Lupus-Erkrankung glaubt sie unerschütterlich an eine gute Macht. Ihre Tochter Ana Maria folgt den schmerzhaften Spuren des mütterlichen Martyriums.

18. September 2010, 19.30, Café Hilde
Matei Florian und Filip Florian (Rumänien) MODERATION Jörg Plath
Übersetzung: Georg Aescht, Eva Wemme
Der gemeinsam verfasste Kindheitsroman der beiden Brüder Filip und Matei „Die Jungs von der Allee“ kündigte die unerschütterlich zwischen spielerischem und tragischem Erzählen  balancierende Prosa von Matei Florian bereits an. Sie macht seinen Debutroman „Und Hams und Regretel“ aus: Ein unglücklich Liebender in der Einsamkeit einer Berghütte, umgeben von leuchtenden Zwergen…

23. September 2010, 19.30, Café Hilde
T.O. Bobe und Svetlana Cârstean (Rumänien) MODERATION: NN
Übersetzung: Eva Wemme
Gemeinsam besuchten die beiden Autoren in Studentenzeiten den Literaturzirkel um Mircea Cartarescu. Inzwischen gehören sie selbst zu den markantesten Stimmen der Rumänischen Literatur. Bobes Roman „Wie ich meine Sommerferien verbrachte“ beschreibt aus der Fantasie eines elfjährigen Jungen heraus einen Sommer, in dem seine Großmutter, Mutter und Cousine umkommen. Cârsteans Lyrik widmet sich der verheerenden Liebe zu japanischen Prinzen und zum größten Konditor der Welt.
Eine Veranstaltung des Rumänisches Kulturinstitut „Titu Maiorescu“ Berlin im Rahmen des internationalen literaturfestivals berlin

INFO: http://www.literaturfestival.com

Music at Hilde: Curmi Da

Saturday 7th August at 21:00

Free Entry

Johanna Bayer – Violine
Barbara Fischer – Violine
Ludwig Frieß – Mandola
Ulli Mehringer – Kontrabass

Traditionals, Jiddishes, Irish Tunes und Roma Musik…
Musik zum tanzen.
Musik zum träumen.
Musik, die unsere Wurzeln nährt.

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Traditional, Yiddish, Irish tunes and Roma music …
Music for dancing.
Music to dream.
Music that nourishes our roots.

For more information:
http://curmida.at/

While The Privateer is practicing a magical trick of such magnitude that Dandyism itself seems almost trivial, he has requested we take this opportunity to tell you about the next film night at cafe Hilde this coming Thursday the 8th of July. Yes folks, MAGIC is coming your way in all its forms. From trickery, to fantasy to down right fake majesty. And it is all wrapped up in the guise of an hour of short film loveliness. Add to this the prospect of a live, almost death defying trick performed personally and, pretty much, exclusively by Berlin’s favourite dandy, The Privateer himself, and you have another evening of Short Film Wonderment worthy of the title. We hope to see you there, but be careful, magic can be a cunning mistress.

Thursday 8th July 21:00

Thanks to Sofia and Mariela for a fantastic evening!

Here are some photos…

Music at Hilde: Opaca Tango
19.06.10 @ 20:30

Vocals: Sofia Aristarain
Pianist: Mariela Orda

“We were performing in our land, Argentina, for different “Milongas”, events, restaurants and private shows.
In the quest of an artistic identity we went through different popular genres without discarding the languages and culture from another countries, nourishing ourselves from their inherent characteristics. Which allows us generate today our own color, choose the mode and shade when we play music. In each stylistics challenge we find our own expressive mode. Tango brings us today something which lay occult since our childhood when we see in the distance lyrics we didn’t understand. Poetry has touched us to the point of knowing that this is the language we want to speak. We play a classic tango repertoire, with own musical arrangements.”

http://www.myspace.com/opacatango

Amongst the football excitement we have to remember James Joyce and celebrate Bloomsday!

We are serving Irish Breakfast all day and bottles of Guinness are €2. There will be radio plays throughout the day including some wonderful Beckett. In the evening we have teamed up again with Dialogue Berlin to bring you a programme of readings and poetry and a range of Irish novels and poetry on sale.

From 21:00 there will be live music with Ken Burke and Seanin.

http://www.myspace.com/kenburke
http://www.myspace.com/seanintrubadore

And of course we will have the football on as well!

“When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water … Begob, ma’am, says Mrs. Cahill, God send you don’t make them in the one pot.”
-Ulysses James Joyce