International Lunch at Sackheimer Tor / Cafe Europa in Königsberg / Kaliningrad
Art and interactive communication online with Mons in Belgien and Kaliningrad in Russia - exchange cooking experiences and local impressions!
Here is the videoreport about the Int.Lunch Vol.7 feat Graf Shishkin design duo of Pavel&Olga Chasovnikovs!
(c) (p) Delo Vkusa (Matter Of Taste) for TV Kaskad, Kaliningrad, kaskad.tv
Boris Bartfeld, Day of the Königsberg Professors
Boris Bartfeld reads his poetry at the Day of the Koenigsberg Professors (Urban Action in Memory of Albertina Scientists), 18.01.2014, at the Vorota historical site (Sackheim Gate) in Kaliningrad.
Performed in Russian.
Organised by the urban group Gorod K. (
Выступление Бориса Бартфельда на Дне кёнигсбергской профессуры (городской акции в память об ученых университа Альбертина) 18 января 2014. Арт-платформа Ворота (Закхаймские ворота), Калининград.
trash/in/cow, in spectr and ПТИЦА, 18.01.14 - Ludwig Resa
Performance by Ilya Spesivtsev (Ptitsa) trash/in/cow, in spectr at the Day of the Koenigsberg Professors (Urban Action in Memory of Albertina Scientists), 18.01.2014, at the Vorota historical site (Sackheim Gate) in Kaliningrad.
Ludwig Resa.
Performed in Russian and German.
Organised by the urban group Gorod K. (
Перформанс Ильи Спесивцева на Дне кёнигсбергской профессуры (городской акции в память об ученых университа Альбертина) 18 января 2014. Чтение стихотворения Людвига Резы. Арт-платформа Ворота (Закхаймские ворота), Калининград.
trash/in/cow, in spectr and ПТИЦА 18.01.14 - Final part
Performance by Ilya Spesivtsev (Ptitsa), trash/in/cow, in spectr at the Day of the Koenigsberg Professors (Urban Action in Memory of Albertina Scientists), 18.01.2014, at the Vorota historical site (Sackheim Gate) in Kaliningrad.
Borries von Munchhausen. Lebensweg (original and translation by Sam Simkin).
Performed in Russian and German.
Organised by the urban group Gorod K. (
Выступление Ильи Спесивцева на Дне кёнигсбергской профессуры (городской акции в память об ученых университа Альбертина) 18 января 2014.
Стихотворение Бёрриса фон Мюнхгаузена Жизненный путь (в оригинале и в переводе Сэма Симкина)
Арт-платформа Ворота (Закхаймские ворота), Калининград.
Gaudeamus, Sackheim 18.01.2014
Gaudeamus Igitur - singing along at the Day of the Koenigsberg Professors (Urban Action in Memory of Albertina Scientists), 18.01.2014, at the Vorota historical site (Sackheim Gate) in Kaliningrad.
Organised by the urban group Gorod K. (
Гимн Гаудеамус игитур - совместное исполнение на Дне кёнигсбергской профессуры (городской акции в память об ученых университа Альбертина) 18 января 2014. Арт-платформа Ворота (Закхаймские ворота), Калининград.
trash/in/cow, in spectr and ПТИЦА, 18.01.14 - Intro and 1st poem (Schulz-Semrau)
Performance by Ilya Spesivtsev (Ptitsa), trash/in/cow, in spectr at the Day of the Koenigsberg Professors (Urban Action in Memory of Albertina Scientists), 18.01.2014, at the Vorota historical site (Sackheim Gate) in Kaliningrad.
Introduction and a poem by Elisabeth Schulz-Semrau (original and translation by Sam Simkin).
Performed in Russian and German.
Organised by the urban group Gorod K. (Save the cobble-stones) (
Выступление Ильи Спесивцева на Дне кёнигсбергской профессуры (городской акции в память об ученых университа Альбертина) 18 января 2014.
Стихотворение Элизабет Шульц-Земрау (в оригинале и в переводе Сэма Симкина).
Арт-платформа Ворота (Закхаймские ворота), Калининград.
Акция организована группой Спасем брусчатку.
Artist Sergey Lyubkin & his aqua-ink, Königsberg in Preußen, Sackheimer Tor 2
Художник Сергей Любкин и его аква-тушь, Кёнигсберг, Закхаймские ворота, 16 января 2016 года. Открытие персональной выставки художника.
Königsberg | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Königsberg
00:03:19 1 History
00:03:28 1.1 Sambians
00:03:52 1.2 Teutonic Order
00:07:54 1.3 Duchy of Prussia
00:10:09 1.4 Brandenburg-Prussia
00:12:47 1.5 Kingdom of Prussia
00:14:02 1.6 Russian Empire
00:14:50 1.7 Kingdom of Prussia
00:18:05 1.8 Weimar Republic
00:18:37 1.9 Nazi Germany
00:20:50 1.9.1 Persecution of Jews under the Nazi regime
00:21:43 1.9.2 Persecution of Poles during World War II
00:23:22 1.9.3 Destruction in World War II
00:26:08 1.10 Soviet/Russian Kaliningrad
00:26:41 2 Demographics
00:28:49 2.1 Jews
00:30:34 2.2 Lithuanians
00:31:02 2.3 Poles
00:34:55 3 Culture and society of Königsberg
00:35:05 3.1 Notable people
00:36:13 3.2 Languages
00:36:49 3.3 The visual and performing arts
00:37:57 3.4 Königsberg Castle
00:38:31 3.5 A center of education
00:39:01 3.6 A multiethnic and multicultural metropolis
00:40:38 3.7 Sports
00:41:17 3.8 Cuisine
00:41:59 4 Fortifications
00:43:06 5 See also
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Königsberg (German pronunciation: [ˈkøːnɪçsˌbɛɐ̯k]) is the name for a former German city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Originally a Sambian or Old Prussian city, it later belonged to the State of the Teutonic Order, the Duchy of Prussia, the Kingdom of Prussia, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany until 1945. After being largely destroyed in World War II by Allied bombing and
Soviet forces and annexed by the Soviet Union thereafter, the city was renamed Kaliningrad. Few traces of the former Königsberg remain today.
The literal meaning of Königsberg is 'King’s Mountain'. In the local Low German dialect, spoken by many of its German former inhabitants, the name was Kenigsbarg (pronounced [ˈkʰeːnɪçsbarç]). Further names included Russian: Кёнигсберг, Королевец, tr. Kyonigsberg, Korolevets, Old Prussian: Kunnegsgarbs, Knigsberg, Lithuanian: Karaliaučius, Polish: Królewiec and Yiddish: קעניגסבערג Kenigsberg.
Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement Twangste by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named in honour of King Ottokar II of Bohemia. A Baltic port city, it successively became the capital of their monastic state, the Duchy of Prussia (1525–1701) and East Prussia. Königsberg remained the coronation city of the Prussian monarchy, though the capital was moved to Berlin in 1701.
A university city, home of the Albertina University (founded in 1544), Königsberg developed into an important German intellectual and cultural centre, being the residence of Simon Dach, Immanuel Kant, Käthe Kollwitz, E. T. A. Hoffmann, David Hilbert, Agnes Miegel, Hannah Arendt, Michael Wieck and others.
Between the thirteenth and the twentieth centuries, the inhabitants spoke predominantly German, but the multicultural city also had a profound influence on the Lithuanian and Polish cultures. The city was a publishing centre of Lutheran literature, including the first Polish translation of the New Testament, printed in the city in 1551, the first book in the Lithuanian language and the first Lutheran catechism, both printed in Königsberg in 1547.
Königsberg was the easternmost large city in Germany until World War II. The city was heavily damaged by Allied bombing in 1944 and during the Battle of Königsberg in 1945; it was then captured and occupied by the Soviet Union on 9 April 1945. Its German population was expelled, and the city was repopulated with Russians and others from the Soviet Union. Briefly Russified as Kyonigsberg (Кёнигсберг), it was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946 in honour of Soviet leader Mikhail Kalinin. It is now the capital of Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast, an enclave bordered in the north by Lithuania and in the south by Poland.
There has been some discussion of the territory's current legal status, although this is largely academic. The Potsdam Agreement placed it provisionally under Soviet administration, but did not me ...