Magazine #01: Are Museums just digging in the Past?

 

Welcome to the Heritage Radio Network-Magazine. This issue of our magazine is called "Are Museums just digging in the Past?", and it will be dedicated to museums and the role they play in various contemporary societies. Our journalists have chosen unique examples of museums on the basis of their outstanding approaches to the communication of cultural heritage.

Jan Brueggemeier will introduce the discussion by looking at the current historical work being done at the Buchenwald memorial in Weimar, Germany.

Dora Gyarmathy will be talking on behalf of the Heritage Radio Network to a number of experts, including the conceptual planer Akos Elod of the Statue Park in Budapest, Hungary.

Svetlana Dicheva will be reporting on the Red House in Sofia, Bulgaria, which is a museum of the living present.

And Vid Mesaric will be looking at the Museum of Arts and Crafts and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia. This is an example of an idiosyncratic approach and an amazing cultural innovation, which is going on right now in Croatia.

The same goes for Katarzyna Fortuna and Pawel Kaminsiki, who will be visiting the Ethnographic and the National Museum of Krakow, Poland to see how these museums are coming to terms with the digital age.

Finally, Hatto Fischer will be interviewing Spyros Mercouris in order to discuss his views of Ancient Greek Theatre in the context of an evolving exhibition on Cultural Capital Cities that was initiated by his sister Melina Mercouri in 1985.

• Chapter 01: Museums - international bridges of understanding
• Chapter 02: Who is writing our heritage?
• Chapter 03: The meaning of museum in the 21st Century
• Chapter 04: Metaphor of museum as bridge of culture
• Chapter 05: Towards purer commemoration
• Chapter 06: Current-history memorial-work in Germany
• Chapter 07: From a past carved out of stone to museum of the living present from Hungary to Bulgaria
• Chapter 08: How to keep up with an auditory in Croatia and Poland of today?
• Chapter 09: From Greek ancient drama to Cultural Capital Cities worldwide
• Chapter 10: Outro/ Disclaimer/ Music-Playlist

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Keywords:

• Introduction Heritage Radio Network, Overview
• May 18th International Day of Museum 2005: “Museums are buliding bridges”
• International Council of Museums

Interview:

• Dr. Yorck Langenstein, ICOM Germany

Music:

• "The Orientexpress", from private shellac-collection
• Patrick Pulsinger with "Choose mode!" [Cd: RTD 176.2943.2, F&F043]
• "Yes Siretsi" from the Students of Yerevan Conservatory [Cd: Van Gogh Records, 94/04]

Keywords:

• EU-Project HERMES (Heritage and New Media for regional sustainable Development)
• Cultural heritage as factor for regional development
• Intangible Heritage
• The Inner Culture of a Museum

Interviews:

• Interview Sebastian Schroeder-Esch, HERMES Coordination-unit.
• Giovanni Pinna, Museologist, former Director of the Natural History Museum in Milan, Italy.

Music:

• "Barenani" from the Students of Yerevan Conservatory [Cd: Van Gogh Records, 94/04]
• "Lento" from the sonata for cello and piano of Borislav Martinu [Cd: OSA CD 1930.2070]
• Gaetano Donizetti's "L'esir d'amore" with Maria Callas [Cd: Emi classics CDCD 7472832]

Keywords:

• HERMES Workshop on museums in Volos, Greece
• The meaning of museum in the beginning of the 21st Century

Interview:

• Carol Becker, dean of Art Institute Chicago, US

Music:

• Senking with "cups" [Cd: Karaoke Kalk CD 9]

Keywords:

• Bernhard Waldenfels, German Philosopher
• Vilem Flusser, Cosmopolitan, Philosopher
• The phenomenon of reciprocity in philosophy and sociology
• Language as reflection of failed attempts to build bridges

Audio-Quote:

• Vilem Flusser from "Heimat und Heimatlosigkeit" [1Audio-Cd, ISBN 3932513126]

Music:

• "Les moirures du temp" of Francis Dhomont [Cd: IMED 0365]

Keywords:

• H.D. Kittsteiner, Europe University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder
• Henri Bergson
• Holocaust-Memorial in the land of the culprits
• Remnants vs. Memorials?
• ”Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die Vergangenheit”, Neue Zuericher Zeitung („The Attack of present on the past“, Neue Zuericher Zeitung (Swiss))

Music:

• Clarence Barlow with "Variazoni e un pianoforte mecanico" [Cd: hat[now]ART 126]

Buchenwald-Memorial Weimar, Germany

Journalist:

• Jan Brueggemeier for Radio Lotte - Weimar, Germany.

Interviews:

• - Rikola-Gunnar Luettgenau, Director of the Buchenwald Memorial, Curator of “Topf & Sons: The Engineers of the ‘Final Solution’, the Builder of the Auschwitz-ovens”
• - Ronald Hirte, Author of the online-project “Found Objects – a picture-catalogue” of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation and fellow of the „Media of History / History of Media- promotion-program at Bauhaus-University Weimar

Keywords:

• The Foundation memorial-places Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora
• Exhibition on the company “Topf & Sons”: “The Engineers of the 'Final Solution' – Builders of the Auschwitz Ovens”
• Ronald Hirte, "Offene Befunde - Ausgrabungen in Buchenwald"[ISBN 3-922618-23-2]
• Online Image catalogue “Found Objects”
• Audio-archaeology, Dr. Friedrich Kittler
• Dr. Volkhardt Knigge, director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation

Music:

• "Concerto funebre for violin and string orchestra" from Karl-Amadeus Hartmann [Cd: 65023 AV]
• Random_Inc with "tales outside the framework of orthodoxy #23" [Cd: ritornell rit 020 c/o mille plateux]

Statue Park, Budapest, Hungary:

Journalist:

• Dora Gyamarthy, Hungarian Radio

Interview:

• Akos Elod

Keywords:

• socialist heritage
• Béla Kun: communist politician, one of the charter members of the Hungarian Communist Party
• Árpád Szakasits (1888 - 1965.): minister (1945-48), president of Hungary (1948-49)
• 0 (zero) km stone: it is a 3 m high limestone sculpture in Budapest, forming a zero sign and reading only "KM"..
• Gyula Illyés (19O2-1983): Hungarian poet, narrator, dramatist.
• A sentence on tyranny: this poem was written in 195O, but was published in 1956 at the time of the revolution.
• Revolution in Hungary in 1956
• Statue of Stalin: this statue was standing one of the most haunted squares of Budapest (1951-1956)

Music:

• "Forward together with the party and the people" of Istvan Lorand and Istvan Vasvari (with the Vasas Kozponti Muvesz Egyuttes Orchestra) [Cd: MK 37 898]

Redhouse, Sofia, Bulgaria

Journalist:

• Svetlana Dicheva, Bulgarian National Radio

Interviews:

• Tzvetelina Jossifova, co-director of the Redhouse
• Nikolay Neykov - member of the team, responsible for the programme "Art for social change"

Keywords:

• Museum of the living-present
• Performing arts, visual arts, live events
• political debates on contemporary society
• Red House debate-serie: “1000 discussions on Europe” including topics as such: Children in institutions, Debate on Islam, Being sexually different, The consumerism as a modernization project of the Bulgarian society, Creative industries in Bulgaria and the role of the young generation, Conditions for independent work outside of the state-owned theatres
• Andrey Nikolov, Bulgarian sculptor
• Ivan Vassiliov, one of the most famous and talented Bulgarian architects of the beginning of XX century and architect of Red House

Music:

• Mouse on Mars with "mykologics" [Cd: 72438-11994-2-8]

Museum for Arts and Craft and Museum for Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

Journalist:

• Vid Mesaric, Croatian Radio

Interviews:

• Miroslav Gešparovic, director of the Museum of Arts and Crafts
• Martina Matic, Museum for Contemporary Art’s curator for public relations

Keywords:

• Museum for Arts and Crafts in Zagreb
• Museum of Contemporary Arts in Zagreb
• museum development projects
• 14 new museum buildings constructed in Croatia
• new cultural hot spot of the city
• usage of new media in museums
• museum marketing
• international exchange of museum projects

Music:

• "Treblebass" of Svadbass [Cd: … ]

Seweryn Udziela Museum of Ethnography and National Museum in Krakow, Poland

Journalists:

• Katarzyna Fortuna, Pawel Kaminski, Radio Krakow

Interviews:

• Director Zofia Golubiew, National Museum in Krakow
• Director Maria Zachorowska, Seweryn Udziela Museum of Ethnography
• Deputy Director Andrzej Rataj, Seweryn Udziela Museum of Ethnography

Keywords:

• Museums during the transformation -modernisation, digitalisation of archives
• computer technology in museums -the mission of museums
• attracting the visitors
• the Museum Night in Kraków Music:

Music:

• From the Polish Requiem of Krzystof Penderecki "Sanctus" [Cd: CHAN 9459/60]

La Stage for Dionysos at La Scala, Milan Italy, Cultural Cities worldwide

Journalist:

• Hatto Fischer, Poiein Kai Prattein, Athens, Greece

Interview:

• Spyrous Mercouris

Keywords:

• Greek theatre and ancient drama
• ”A stage for dionysos”, at Museo Teatrale alla Scala
• Melina Mercouri-Foundation
• Cultural Capital Cities worldwide

Music:

• "Orest Stasimon", an excerpt from an antique drama by Euripides, 406 a.d. [Cd: Musique de la Grece antique]

The Heritage Radio Network is part of European Union HERMES Project as part of INTERREG CADSES III b. Heritage Radio Network's partners are: Hungarian Radio, Bulgarian National Radio, Croatian Radio, Radio Krakow (Poland), DEMEKAV, Volos, Greece and Radio Lotte, Weimar, Germany.

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You have been listening to the voices of Sandra Iseman and Howard Atkinson.

Editors-in-chief for this production were Hatto Fischer, Athens, Greece and Jan Brueggemeier, Weimar, Germany.

Music Editors: Christoph Roesler and Jan Brueggemeier

The music you heard was, in chronological order:

"The Orientexpress" from private shellac-collection,

Patrick Pulsinger with "Choose mode!" [Cd: RTD 176.2943.2, F&F043],

"Yes Siretsi" and "Barenani" from the Students of Yerevan Conservatory [Cd: Van Gogh Records, 94/04],

"Lento" from the sonata for cello and piano of Borislav Martinu [Cd: OSA CD 1930.2070],

Gaetano Donizetti's "L'esir d'amore" with Marias Callas [Cd: Emi classics CDCD 7472832],

Senking with "cups" [Cd: Karaoke Kalk CD 9],

"Les moirures du temp" of Francis Dhomont [Cd: IMED 0365],

Clarence Barlow with "Variazoni e un pianoforte mecanico" [Cd: hat[now]ART 126],

"Concerto funebre for violin and string orchestra" from Karl-Amadeus Hartmann [Cd: 65023 AV],

Random_Inc with "tales outside the framework of orthodoxy #23" [Cd: ritornell rit 020 c/o mille plateux],

"Forward together with the party and the people" of Istvan Lorand and Istvan Vasvari (with the Vasas Kozponti Muvesz Egyuttes Orchestra) [Cd: MK 37 898],

Mouse on Mars with "mykologics" [Cd: 72438-11994-2-8],

"Treblebass" of Svadbass [Cd: … ],

From the Polish Requiem of Krzystof Penderecki "Sanctus" [Cd: CHAN 9459/60]

and "Orest Stasimon", an excerpt from an antique drama by Euripides, 406 a.d. [Cd: Musique de la Grece antique].