MACHINE/MAN

Berlin Brain-Computer Interface: Controlling Simple Applications with Mind Power (BM4)
Dr. Benjamin Blankertz, mathematician, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and
Software Technology in Berlin with a focus on Brain-Computer Interfaces [Berlin]

Dance of the Machines. On the Nervous System of the "Dead Chickens" Monsters (BM4)
Nils Peters, programmer, machine choreographer, musician [Berlin]

MARKET

Alternative Ways of How the Berlin Dance and Ballet Scene Could Have Been Changed. On Adopted and Rejected Suggestions (BM4)
Adolphe Binder, curator, producer, director of Binder + Partner/Berlin, former director of the BerlinBallett - Komische Oper [Berlin]

On Drinking, Travelling and Selling: Moijto, Cuba and Guest Dance Performances (BM4)
Barbara Friedrich, initiator of TanzRaumBerlin, producer, founder of the Tanztage Berlin, electronic technician [Berlin]

On the Social Situation of Dance Artists at the Beginning of the 21st Century (BM4)
Hans Herdlein, dancer, since 1972 president of the Cooperation of German Stage Workers (GDBA) [Hamburg]

Global Market and Local Authorities: About the Hidden Structures of the Artistic Production Process (BM4)
Eszter Salamon, dancer, choreographer [Berlin]

On the Structural Reformation of the National Ballet in Berlin since 2003 (BM4)
Dr. Christiane Theobald, ballet company manager and dramaturge Staatsballett Berlin [Berlin]

MEDIA

Self-representation in a virtual world: which Avatar fits me well? (BM2)
Irena Akopjan, translator, cultural organiser [Berlin]

Sex, Religion and Murder in the Name of Family Honor - the Development of the Palestinian Tabloid in Israel since 1948 (BM12)
Hakim Bishara, Palestinian freelance journalist based in Tel Aviv. His resume includes news editing and magazine writing in Israeli and international print and electronic media. Nowadays he is involved in documentaries and social change projects. "Story telling is my only comfort. You call it passion, I call it service." [Tel Aviv]

Why it's not your fault if your computer goes nuts. On the psychological background of technical system development. And what you can contribute. (BM2)
Carmen Bruder, Psychologist, phD TU Berlin, men-machine-interface [Berlin]

Scriptwriting for game-CD-Roms, Book-keeping virtues for exciting gameplay (BM2)
Claudius Hagemeister, author for game-CD-Roms, short prose, writing lessons for youngsters [Berlin]

The Other Face of Drugs, Homelessness, Illegality and Unemployment in okto.tv (BM10)
Amina Handke, visual and media artist, DJ, programme coordinator of Okto Community TV [Vienna]

From Information to News - Who is the Subject Who Decides What's Objective in a Newspaper? (BM12)
Hisham Naffa, journalist and editor of the cultural and political supplement of Al Ittihad newspaper. He writes a political column for Al Akhbar newspaper in Lebanon and a personal column in a Haifa-based tabloid. He is a political activist and a translator, he is taking his time studying philosophy, he is waiting for his first book to be published, and he loves fishing. He spent over a year in military prisons. [Tel Aviv]

Mechanisms of Helping (BM10)
Barbara Stöckl, TV producer, journalist and moderator [Vienna]

What They Don't Know Can't Hurt Them - Self Censorship in Israeli Media (BM12)
Ali Waked, journalist for Y-net. [Tel Aviv]

MEDIALITY

I Can See Dead People. The Gift in "The Sixth Sense" and other Horror Thrillers (BM8)
Claus Philipp, head of the cultural department of the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard [Vienna]

Spiritual and Remote Healing (BM8)
Dr. Manfred Schiffne, lawyer and energeticist, lecturer, author, trainer for meditation and deep relaxation, contacts to spiritual healers all around the globe [Köflach]

MEMORY

Alternative Techniques for Remembering Physical Actions and Movements (BM4)
Thomas Conway, dancer (Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods), actor, educated in European Theatre Arts in London, worked with "Two Fish" [Berlin]

Raqs Media Collective: "With Respect to Residue", from place mat to tabula rasa (BM 11)
Paul Domela, Programme Director of Liverpool Biennial and Deputy Chief Executive between 2001-2007 [Liverpool]

Shut Up, Memory! (BM2)
Harun Farocki, film-maker [Berlin]

Ghostly Apparitions and Historical Consciousness (BM12)
Ilit Ferber, teaches philosophy and education at Tel Aviv University and is a post-doctoral fellow at Yad Hanadiv Foundation. Her doctoral thesis focused on the connection between melancholy and philosophy in Walter Benjamin's writings, and in it she discussed, among other topics, Benjamin's interest in theatrical figures of ghosts. Her current research deals with the connection between language and pain. She has a daughter and two sons. [Tel Aviv]

The Loss of Awareness about the Progressiveness and Radicalism of the Dance Avant-garde 40 Years Ago (BM4)
Nele Hertling, director of the DAAD Artists-in-Residency Programme Berlin, former artistic director and manager of the Hebbel Theater Berlin GmbH [Berlin]

Procastination taught by a professional (BM2)
Maria Kwiatkowsky, actress, winner of the silver leopard in Locarno [Berlin]

Retelling Choreography. Please choose between:
1. MIR - a love story#Prolog - After the Fall (has been shown only 4 times)
2. Back to the Present (version: Kaufhaus Jandorf)
3. Wild Switzerland (BM4)
Constanza Macras, choreographer, dorkypark [Berlin, Buenos Aires]

What My Body Remembers (BM4)
Dr. Johannes Odenthal, artistic director House of World Cultures: Department of Music, Dance, Theatre [Berlin]

The conservation of St. James' Cemetery (BM 11)
Robin Riley, artist, gardener, sculptor and conservationist at St. James' Cemetery, Liverpool [Liverpool]

Facilitating the art of storytelling: Teaching children to retell and generate their own narratives (BM 11)
Rebecca Shanks, speech and language therapist [Liverpool]

Ghost Dances - Media Art and Dance as Pseudo-Shamanistic Ritual, Evocations of the Dead and Cultural Memory (BM4)
Prof. Dr. Birgit Wiens, Professor for Theatre Studies/Theatre History and Production Dramaturgy, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden [Dresden]

____Bir'im
How to Rebuild the Village of Kufer Birim - Integrating the Memory into a New Life Avoiding Monumentalism. Accompanied by Photos (BM12)
Hanna Farah Kufer Birim, artist, builder and architect. He is from Kufer Birim, a village whose inhabitants were expelled in November 1948 and bombarded from the air in September 1953. [Tel Aviv]

____Jaffa
A Jaffa Native in Exile - Memories of the City He Has Never Visited (BM12)
Khamis Haddad, born in Jaffa in 1946. He has a Baccalauréat in Political Science, is a sales manager for graphics and printing services in Aman, Jordan, and is a member of the Friends of Yaffa group and the board of directors of the Yaffa Foundation for Social Empowerment. [Tel Aviv]

Jaffa in 1948 Through the Story of Two Families: Damiani and Habib (BM12)
Fakhri Jdai, born in Jaffa in 1926. In 1950, after receiving a pharmacist license from the French University in Beirut, he returned to Jaffa, and has been working in the family pharmacy (est. 1924) in Hilwa (now Yephet) Street ever since. He's a political activist and one of the founders of the al-Ard movement and a-Rabitta, The League for the Arabs of Jaffa. [Tel Aviv]

The Forgotten Golden Age - Jaffa as a Cultural and Economical Center During the British Mandate (BM12)
Mustafa Kabha, researcher and senior lecturer in the Department of Islam, the Department of Middle Eastern History, and the Department of Communication in the Open University. His main research fields are Middle Eastern history in the New Era, the history of the Palestinian National Movement, and the history of Arab mass media. [Tel Aviv]

____Poland
Invisible Jews Can Still Be Seen In Poland (BM12)
Anka Grupinska, writer, author and director of the oral history projects Writing Down the Jewish World in Poland, for The Jewish Historical Museum in Warsaw, and Remembering The Polish People's Republic, for KARTA Center. She lives in Warsaw. She was an expert in the Blackmarket No. 3, 2005 in Warsaw, which had the same topic aas the one in Jaffa. [Tel Aviv]

____Rubin
"Either Take me to Rubin or Divorce me" (BM12)
Fatmeh Kassem, lecturer at the Sociology-Anthropology Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, with academic and practical training in conflict resolution. She is currently studying Bedouin women's patterns of negotiation when pursuing their higher education, as well as analyzing life stories of women who participated in the "Jerusalem Women as Catalysts for Peace" project. [Tel Aviv]

MENTAL TOOL

Stories on Mobility Taken From the Magazine "Die Beute"/ ID Verlag publishing house (BM7)
Andreas Fanizadeh, journalist, author and publisher (ID Verlag publishing house) [Berlin, Zurich]

So What is Hypnosis Anyway? (BM12)
Natalie Pik, graduated from the Academy of Hypnotic Science, Melbourne, Australia. She is a guided imagery therapist. She has worked as a tutor and care taker for autistic children, as a professional storyteller, and as an actress. Her book, "Malkat Ha-Mamterot" (Queen of Sprinklers), was published by Hakibutz Hameuchad in 1995. [Tel Aviv]

"Ethnic Marketing" as an Analytical Grid for International Activities in Contemporary Art and Its Potential to Avoid Drown-out Discussions on Santiago Sierra (BM7)
Tirdad Zolghadr, independent critic, curator (Parkett, Frieze (amongst others)), member of the artists' collective SHAHRZAD [San Francisco, Teheran, Zurich, Berlin]

METAMORPHOSIS

To Overcome Death. Learning from the Butterflies' Metamorphoses (BM8)
Leo Kuzmits, butterfly researcher and breeder, social pedagogue [Graz]

The Encounter Senegal - Styria in the Cooking Pot. With Example Dishes (e.g. Mango Salad with Pumpkin Seed Oil) (BM8)
Bambo Sane, artist, cook, dancer, construction engineer, manager of the Intercultural Café Auschlössl [Graz]

METEOROLOGY

Cosmic overlapping and Cloudbusten in Wilhelm Reich (BM2)
Christoph Keller, artist, scientist [Berlin]

MIGRATION

Immigrant Classical Music (BM6)
Kevin Beavers, PhD, American composer, taught composition and theory at the University of Texas/Austin and the Interlochen Arts Camp [Columbia, Berlin]

Mexicanization? Latinos/as in the U.S.A. (BM6)
Dr. Markus Heide, Scientific Assistant at the Institute for American Studies, HU Berlin [Berlin]

Migration. Networks of Movement and Transitory Spaces (BM4)
Nanna Heidenreich, film festival worker, media scientist, kanak attak [Berlin]

Crossing the Boundary of Opportunities - From Baku to Miami: An Immigrant Experience of a 13 Years Old (BM6)
Petros Ovsepyan, PhD, Armenian-American composer, pianist [Baku, Berlin]

MILITARISM

Israel - From Democracy to Ethnocraty and from there to an Apartheid State (BM12)
Shulamit Aloni, leader, human rights activist, jurist and educator, and founder of Ratz, the party for citizens rights. She established the Israeli Consumer Council, was a Member of Knesset for 27 years and a minister in the Israeli Cabinet. She was awarded the Israel Prize for her special contribution to the state. [Tel Aviv]

The Different Methods of Manipulating the Visitors of Museums of Pre-Israeli Military Organizations: Haganah Museum, Palmach History Museum, Etzel Museum, The Ayalon Institute, and Joara Museum (BM12)
Yochai Avrahami, artist. He teaches at the Avni Art Institute, Bezalel Academy of Art, and in the Art Institute, Oranim College. His work has been exhibited in local and international shows, and he has won several prizes and scholarships, among them the Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation for special projects (2008), and the Creation Encouragement prize from The Israeli Ministry of Culture (2007). [Tel Aviv]

How Does "White Cheese" Relate to the Israeli Military? On Hidden Militarism in Israeli Culture (BM12)
Michal Gelbart, activist in "New Profile" and group facilitator in conflict management and non-violence. She also trains adults in computer applications. Her four children go to Democratic Schools. She's a proponent of "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" (Mahatma Gandhi). [Tel Aviv]


MILLION

Of How Great or How Little Importance is Winning a Million Euros (BM8)
El Awadalla, chief employee representative and payroll accountant at the Literaturhaus Vienna, comedian, writer, won a million Euros in the "Millionenshow", the Austrian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", chairperson of the Ö.D.A., an association of Austrian dialect authors [Vienna]

How to Deal Carefully with Unhoped-for Manna from Heaven (BM8)
Mag. Sigrid Weiss-Lutz, "Millionenshow"-winner in 2003, secondary school teacher [Graz]

MOBILITY

____Constant Movement in a Closed System
Guilt as Perpetuum Mobile and its End (BM10)
Marcus Carney, born in the USA, grew up in Vienna, actor, director, filmmaker, short films (e. g. "AIR SQUARE", 2003); "The End of the Neubacher Project" (2007) is his first feature-length film [Vienna]

____Migration
From Refugee Aid to Smuggling to Human Trafficking - Paths to Europe and Why They are so Arduous (BM10)
Corinna Milborn, scholar of political science, author, journalist, political editor of news magazine "Format"; fields of interest: human rights, globalization, women's rights, Bruno Kreisky Award for the political book 2006; most recent publication: "Ware Frau. Auf den Spuren moderner Sklaverei von Afrika nach Europa" ("Woman as Commodity. Following the Traces of Modern Slavery from Africa to Europe", 2008) [Vienna]

____Traffic
We are the Congestion - Traffic Jam: Crisis or Therapy (BM10)
Helmut Hiess, engineer, space planner, traffic planner, mobility expert, managing director for Rosinak & Partner planning office [Vienna]

____Transport
1. Securing Tracks of Ecological Footprint in Global Transport
2. Why We Ship Air to China (BM10)
Robert Galbavy, forwarding agent, works in transport logistics, Executive Director of Cargo Partner, A.G., work experience in Europe, North America and Asia; member of the platform against global warming and environmental damage in the transport sector [Vienna]

MOKOTÓW (South-Warsaw)

____Cafe Lokalna, ul. Kwiatowa 1/3/5 I
Memory (BM5/city version)
Marek Beylin, journalist, commentator, "Gazeta Wyborcza", specialises in post-war history and collective social memory [Warsaw]

____Lokalna Cafe, ul. Kwiatowa 1/3/5 II
Space - Can We Touch Multi-Dimensional Mathematical Objects? How To Imagine the Web-Universe as a Real Space Using the Experience of Mathematicians (BM5/city version)
Jan Gorski, PhD candidate at Warsaw University and Toulouse III University, mathematician and Internet consultant, in his work he focuses on abstract spaces of mathematics, the space of the Internet and parallels in the way they are perceived and used [Warsaw]

____Regeneracja, ul. Pulawska 61
Protest Movements Now (BM5/city version)
Magdalena Mosiewicz, co-chair of the Polish Green Party "Zieloni 2004" [Warsaw]

____orner ul. Ligocka/Krózanska
The Mysteries of Warsaw Graffiti (BM5/city version)
Tomasz Sikorski, artist, associate professor at Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lódz and the Swietokrzyska Academy in Kielce [Warsaw]

____private flat, ul. Narbutta
Reality and Fiction in Documentary Films and Everyday Life (BM5/city version)
Malgorzata Szumowska, film director, graduated from Film School in Lódz, author of documentaries and feature films, Polish and international co-productions, member of the European Film Academy [Warsaw]

____Sliver Screen Cinema, ul. Pulawska 17
Creation of Film as a Process of Communication With the Ghosts of the Universe (BM5/city version)
Agnieszka Trzos, film director, author of documentaries and feature films, TV series and screenplays, graduated from Film School in Lódz [Warsaw]

MONEY

Killing Gatsby - Money and Masculinity since F. Scott Fitzgerald (BM6)
Dr. Eva Boesenberg, Professor for North American Studies, HU Berlin, Research Interests: Afro-American Literature and Culture, Gender Studies, Basketball [Berlin]

Philantrophy or Negotiating the Future of Giving (BM6)
Jacalyn Carley, choreographer, dancer, co-founder of Tanzfabrik Berlin, author and board member of the Joseph L. Carley Foundation, USA [New Jersey, Berlin]

Speculation and Money in the Works of Mark Twain (BM6)
Dr. Winfried Fluck, Professor for North American Culture at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin [Berlin]

Money-surrogates. Where money can be worth less than little money (BM2)
Stephan Geene, co-founder of the b_books publishing house and bookstore, curator, member of the collective film "le ping pong d'amour" [Berlin]

They just don't get it - knowledge as currency in academy, industry, and scenery (BM2)
Tom Lamberty, publisher (Merve), strategy consultant (Hewitt), and stachyologue [Berlin]

How to Prepare a Simple US Tax Return (BM6)
Monique Luegger, tax advisor [New Jersey, Berlin]

International Film Financing Spezialized in Media Supply Chain Management at Oligopolistic Markets (BM6)
George Salden, Film Sponsor, International Film Finance Services, Associate Lecturer for Career Advice, UDK Berlin [Berlin, Munich]

What You Always Wanted to Know About Cultural Fundraising But Were Afraid to Ask (BM6)
Dr. Gary Smith, Executive Director of the American Academy Berlin [Berlin]

MORPHING

Would You Like To Wear a Different Skin? Enter New Territories and Explore New Borders. Practical Fitting and Discussion (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Diana Dyjak Montes de Oca, artist and explorer [Warsaw]

Invisible Connections Between Philosophy, Art and Politics. On Gilles Deleuze (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Dr. Michal Herer, philosopher [Warsaw]

The Universe of Female Images Through the Centuries. With Examples (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Agnieszka Zawadowska, stage designer [Warsaw]

MOTIVATION

The missing love of Sisyphus – Striving playfully for the meaning of life (Licence No.1)
Günter Eitenmüller dean for the evangelic church in Mannheim [Mannheim, Weinheim]

Neurobiological principles of pathological gambling and therapeutic methods for curing addicts (Licence No.1)
Dr. Tagrid Leménager certified psychologist and researcher for addiction prevention, singer of “Zero Dawn” and Dr. Nina Kämmerer doctor, both working for the gambling addiction clinic at the central institute for mental health [Mannheim]

A kick start in reaching one’s peak: How can I motivate myself to
achieve top performance (Licence No.1)
Carlo Thränhardt 16-time German Champion in high jump, current European record holder, and 3-time world record holder, motivation coach, author [Munich]

Why does the mouse not play with the cat? (Licence No.1)
Dr. Klaus Wünnemann Zoo Director Heidelberg [Heidelberg]

MOVEMENT

Playful methods to get generations moving – Proper objectives and tasks and a lot of exercise, a recipe for healthy aging and well-being? (Licence No.1)
Prof. Dr. Astrid Hedtke-Becker professor for gerontology at “Hochschule Mannheim“, faculty for social service studies, Project Manager for "InnoWo: Zuhause bleiben bis zuletzt" (Staying at home as long as you can) [Mannheim]

Why we won’t drive cars in the future and why adults will have to find themselves a new toy (Licence No.1)
Carsten Otte radio presenter and author, wrote "Goodbye Auto. Ein Leben ohne Führerschein" (“Goodbye Car. Life without a driving licence”) [Baden-Baden]

____collective I
"la movida" - Places Where Something Was Really Moving. The Party Scene in Madrid After the Franco Regime (BM4)
Juan Dominguez, choreographer, dancer, party animal [Berlin/Madrid]

____collective II
How Einar Schleef Moved Choruses and What He Told Us About German History In Doing So (BM4)
Matthias Dreyer, theatre scholar and dramaturge, research associate at the Institute for Theatre Studies, FU Berlin, special research area "Transformations of Antiquity", Rheinland-Pfalz long jump champion, 1989 [Berlin]

____collective III
Dimensions of Politics in the Dance of the 20's and 30's - the Choreographies of Protest (Movement Choruses and Workers' Collectives) (BM4)
Dr. Yvonne Hardt, dancer, choreographer and dance scholar, with a focus on the conjunction of theory and practice in dance [Berlin]

____collective IV
The Origin of Dance Lies Not in Theatre but in Festivity (BM4)
Arnd Wesemann, editor "ballett-tanz" [Berlin]

____distracting
Gestures of Distraction: The LIGNA Radio Ballet (BM4)
Ole Frahm, radio artist, researches on comics, co-founder of Freies Sender Kombinat Hamburg and LIGNA [Hamburg]

____evolutionary
What Does Our Current Way of Moving Have to Do With Evolution? Movements in Water, on Land and in the Air (BM4)
Irene Sieben, Feldenkrais teacher, journalist, dance pedagogue, dancer [Berlin]

____falling
On Falling (BM4)
Martin Nachbar, choreographer, dancer, co-curator of mode05 [Berlin]

____floating I
Assisted States of Floatation or: The Collapse of Gravity - With Practical Exercises (BM4)
Prof. Dieter Heitkamp, Prof. for Contemporary Dance at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, specialist for contact improvisation [Frankfurt/M.]

____floating II
Floating Bodies - How Perception Changes in Zero-Gravity (BM4)
Dipl.-Sportl. Dr. med. Rainer Kowoll, physiology and sports, Centre for Space Medicine Berlin (ZWMB), research on life in extreme environments [Berlin]

____gender specific
Do Dance Movements Have a Gender? (BM4)
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Klein, Prof.for Sociology of Movement, Sports and Dance at the University Hamburg, sociologist and dance theorist, curator at steirische herbst 2005 [Hamburg]

____hijacking
Hijacking as Proactive Strategy (BM4)
Mårten Spångberg, artist, focuses on the performance of distribution, accountability and ownership [Brussels]

____innocent
1. Innocent Movement (Earth)
2. Unconscious Movement (Humans) (BM4)
Dr. Stefanie Wenner, philosopher and writer [Berlin]

____jumping
Jumping Lines - Textual Movement (BM4)
Claudia Bosse, director, space expert, theatercombinat [Vienna]

____planetary
The Movements of the Planets in Various Reference Systems or: Why the Sun Doesn't Stand Still After All (BM4)
Hans-Friedger Lachmann, production director and programme coordinator at the Zeiss Planetarium, computer scientist and communications engineer [Berlin]

____sitting
Frame of Reference. Why Sitting Around Is Just as Important as Dancing (BM4)
Siegmar Zacharias, director, communications trainer [Berlin]

____smoking
Introduction to the Gesture of Pipe Smoking (BM4)
Antonia Baehr, producer (make up productions) and choreographer [Berlin]

____swaying
1. On the Disadvantages of Having a Sense of Balance When Dancing
2. Motion Sensations or: When the World Wavers (Disorders of the Vestibular System) (BM4)
Dr. Andrea Radtke, neurologist in the Vertigo Ambulance of the Charité Berlin, research associate in the research group "Vestibular System" [Berlin]

____uncontrolled
Epilepsy - Movements Out of Control (BM4)
Norbert van Kampen, medical sociologist and health scientist (MPH) at the Epilepsie Zentrum Berlin-Brandenburg im Verbund der v. Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten Bethel, board member of the National Epilepsy Association Berlin-Brandenburg [Berlin]

____vibrating
The Dance of a Water Drop on the Hot Stovetop - The Mysterious Vibrations of the Water World (BM4)
Frank Rietz, physicist [Magdeburg]

____walking I
Body, Space, Movement: How We Know, That We Are Walking (BM4)
Barbara Gronau, lecturer in theatre studies, research associate for the sub-project "Aesthetics of the Performative" as part of the Special Research Section "Performative Cultures" at the FU Berlin [Berlin]

____walking II
Orienteering - With a Compass Through Forests and Over Meadows (BM4)
Bernd Schröder, supervisor (prevention) for the Association of Administrators, orienteer [Berlin]

MUHTAR

What is a Muhtar? What Does a Mutar Do? What Are the Skills of a Muhtar? (BM7)
Ahmet Neset Özevin, informal Muhtar in his hood [Kurtalan, Berlin]

MUSIC

Mining the Vinyl Junkyard: sonic treasures retrieved from a reservoir of discarded discs (BM 11)
Fashionably forgotten: Esquivel, Scott Walker, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and other waste wax, now waxed lyrical (BM 11)
Bryan Biggs, Artistic Director of the Bluecoat, record collector and visual artist [Liverpool]

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day: the circulation of values and commodities in the music industry. With sound examples (BM 11)
Paul Du Noyer, editor of music magazines Q and Mojo, journalist for NME, The Word, Author of "Liverpool - Wondrous Place. From the Cavern to the Capital of Culture" (2004), based in Liverpool [Liverpool]

Noise becomes sound. Musique concrète: Pierre Henry & Pierre Schaeffer. Music for the future: Edgar Varese. Acousmatic music: Trevor Wishart. With sound examples (BM 11)
James Wishart, writer and Head of Composition in the School of Music at the University of Liverpool [Liverpool]

The Perception of Music from the Producer's, the Consumer's and the Drummer's Perspective (BM8)
Rainer Binder-Krieglstein, drummer, music producer and musician, last album: "Alles Verloren" (2007), produced by Shantel for Essay Recordings [Graz]

About the Strange Exchange Relationship between Physics and Music (BM8)
Mag. Monique Fessl, physicist, music producer, djane and musician (nimai), recently working on her second album, "who knows" [Graz]

From a red light café to the orchestra pit – The clarinet under elector Carl Theodor (Licence No.1)
Niko Friedrich musician, solo clarinettist for the National Theatre Mannheim for the last 25 years and active in diverse chamber music formations [Mannheim]

Philosophizing on Music in the Grid Square (with listening examples) (BM8)
Prof. Dr. Johann Götschl, Professor for Philosophy of Sciences with a focus on natural sciences, working on the development of an integrative notion of reality [Graz]

1. The Silver Rose - Gifts and Presents in Music Theatre
2. This Picture is Enchantingly Beautiful - About Giving and Taking in Mozart's Master Operas (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Harald Haslmayr, musicologist, historian, specialist in German studies, qualified as a professor for "Evaluation Research and Critical Aesthetics of Music" in 2003, Professor at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts [Graz]

Composition and improvisation. On singing as a tool (Licence No.1)
Silke Hauck singer-songwriter for pop, jazz and soul music with a residency at Mannheim’s “Schatzkistl" with her show "Silke Hauck Night" [Mannheim]

Through circular breathing to a higher capacity (Licence No.1)
Uli Krug musician (electric bass, sousaphone), founding member of "Mardi Gras.bb" [Mannheim]

We want your soul! The Colonization of the Hearts by Means of Pop (with listening examples) (BM8)
Mag. Christoph Marek, sociologist, journalist, music maker (Marek, bumm bumm produktionen) and writer (Pop/ Schlager) [Graz]

Geh nicht vorbei [Don't Walk Past Me] - The Claiming of the Gift of Love in the German Schlager Music of the Sixties and Seventies (with listening examples) (BM8)
Fritz Ostermayer, Radio host ("Im Sumpf"/FM4), writer, DJ and musician [Vienna]

A human being is only truly human when he sings (Licence No.1)
René Pollesch director, author [Berlin]

Cui bono? Heathen Human Sacrifice. Objectives, Composition and Choreography of Le Sacre du Printemps by Igor Stravinsky (BM8)
Berno Odo Polzer, artistic director of the Wien Modern Festival, dramaturge in dance and performance projects, music curator [Vienna]

Music and Inarticulate Knowledge: the Didactic Problem (BM12)
Eran Sachs, composer, improviser, sound-artist, and curator working in Jerusalem and Jaffa. Coming from a classical music background, he had his initial encounter with electronic signal synthesis during his military service where he was taught signal theory and analysis by ear as part of his service with the Israeli Army's Electronic Intelligence Unit. He plays the systems he's developed, such as the No-Input-Mixer, as part of the group Lietterschpich. He has worked with the group Reframe, and has been the curator of the Stephan Ills`Audio-Historical Ghost Archive since 2003. [Tel Aviv]

An Enigmatic Gift: The "Musical Offering" by Johann Sebastian Bach, composed for Emperor Frederick II. (the Great) (with listening example) (BM8)
Mag. Christian Scheib, programme director of "musikprotokoll", radio Ö1 music editor, music guru, recorder player [Vienna]

Spontaneous tunes - Improvisation, the soul of Jazz (Licence No.1)
Thomas Siffling jazz trumpeter, bandleader, producer and managing director of "SP-Siffling Productions" with its record labels "JAZZ'n'ARTS", "Personality Records" and "künstlersache" [Mannheim]

Different Aspects of the Origin of Zur's Creative Work (BM12)
Eran Zur, born in the Krayot in 1965. He started playing music and writing when he was a teenager. He moved to Tel Aviv to study music in 1986, and has been a musician and writer ever since. To date, he has released seven albums and a novel, "Bet Ashman" (Keter, 2004). [Tel Aviv]

____Avantgarde I
Cage & Ashley - An American Avantgarde. With Acoustic Examples (BM6)
Peter Gente, Founder and Director of Merve Verlag [Berlin]

____Avantgarde II
1. "Central Park in the Dark". Charles Ives and the Emancipation of American Music in 1900
2. "Maximal Music". Birth, History and Importance of Minimal Music (BM6)
Dr. Wolfgang Rathert, Professor for Musicology at Ludwig-Maximilian Universität München, Specialist on North American Music and the Transatlantic Relations of Musical Avantgarde [Munich, Berlin]

____Composing I
An Activity: The musicality of everyday gestures and non-verbal communication in silent cycles of rhythmic play (BM2)
Nathan Fuhr, conductor, performer, dancer [Berlin]

____Composing II
A bar for ear consumption: treating music and language with equal rights. A laptop exercise. (BM2)
Ulrike Haage, composer, pianist, radio-playwright [Berlin]

____Composing III
Inventing new branches and forms of art. Intercultural composition. (BM2)
Daniel Ott, composer, new music theatre, site-specific orientation [Berlin]

____Composing IV
In lack of ideas randomize: composing at the computer with Metaphysical Function (N.L.) (BM2)
Hannes Strobel, musician, composer [Berlin]

____Conducting
Discover Your Unknown Talent in Conducting (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Szymon Wyrzykowski, conductor of the choir Allegrezza del Canto [Warsaw]

____Hip Hop
Hip-Hop - A Subculture in Poland and All Over the World (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Bruno Jasienski, graduated elementary music school in drum class, interested in music generally [Warsaw]

____Historical stringed instruments
Historical stringed instruments before 1800. The Viola da Gamba and the Viola da Braccio (BM2)
Timan Muthesius, violin-maker [Berlin]

____Jazz I
A Talk About the Musicians I Played With: Curtis Mayfield, Sam Cook, Ray Butler, James Brown, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor (BM6)
Norris-Sirone Jones, Musician [New York, Berlin]

____Jazz II
Why (and How) Jazz Died the Last 10 Years (BM6)
David Strauss, Journalist, DJ, Writer and Senior Editor at EXBERLINER [New York, Berlin]

____Jewish
A Short History of Jewish Music and Its Culture, Presence and Development Today (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Raphael Roginski, composer and musician, working in the field of improvised, folk, Jewish, electronic, theatre and film Music [Warsaw]

____Listening I
"Below Words" - Experience the Possibilities of Sound Design. On the Example of "Festen" and "4.48 Psychosis" by TR Warszawa (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Piotr Dominski, sound designer and sound director of TR Warszawa [Warsaw]

____Listening II
Ear plays - on listening to the world and moving pictures (BM2)
Eunice Martins, improvisation/composition for diverse occasions and locations, pianist of the cinema Arsenal [Berlin]

____Listening III
How to avoid premature aging of the ear - or how I become a music-lover of good music (BM2)
Matthias Osterwold, artistic director of MaerzMusik - Festival of the Berliner Festspiele for topical music - originally urban planner [Berlin]

____Listening IV
The Art of Listening - With Three Examples of Unknown Music (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Grzegorz "Sorbee" Sorbiani, musician, DJ, member of "Tam Tam" and "Paansori" project [Warsaw]

____Noise/sound I
Living in Noise - how to produce counter noise with an Amiga Commodore (BM2)
Patric Catani, musician (EC8OR, Candie Hank, Gagarin), Kinderzimmer Homecomputer Pioneer (Flex Busterman - Candiehank.com) [Berlin]

____Noise/sound II
What is a music- digital and analogue ways of sound (BM2)
Hannes Strobel, musician, composer [Berlin]

____Popular I
Listening to Loudness - Drums and Music (BM6)
Brendan Dougherty, Musician and Composer [Philadelphia, Berlin]

____Popular II
Born in the USA: The Musician Bruce Springsteen as the Social Consciencess of the U.S. (BM6)
Daniela Hrzán, Cultural Scientist and Americanist, associated to the Graduate School "Geschlecht als Wissenskategorie" (Gender as a Category of Knowledge), HU Berlin, active in the German-American Cultural Exchange for Many Years now [Berlin]

____Popular III
American Music in Black and White: It's Not That Simple (BM6)
Ed Ward, music historian, writer, broadcaster ("Fresh Air" - National Public Radio and "Blue Monday" on JazzRadio, 1995-2000 [Austin, Berlin]

____Rock
How To Be a Rockstar in Everyday Life (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Maciej "Magura" Góralski, music journalist, ethnopunk musician, poet, DJ and Buddhist scholar [Warsaw]

____Singing
Wake Up Your Voice: Try Unknown Vocal and Breathing Techniques in Ancient and Folk Music (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Dorota Kozinska, publicist and music critic, trained in traditional vocal techniques [Warsaw]

____Song I
Big body - big voice? On the interdependence of physiology and vocal effectiveness (BM2)
Nadja Michael, soprano [Berlin]

____Song II
Penguin-concert. An illustrated hummed singing lesson in the Antarctica. (BM2)
Burkhardt, von Puttkamer, opera singer, specialist for concerts at unusual locations (Antarctica, mine) [Berlin]

____Sound Art
Ultra-red: Blok 70. The Latest Project from the Sound Art-Group from Los Angeles in a Shopping-Mall in Novi Beograd (BM6)
Dr. Manuela Bojadžijev, Member of Ultra-red and kanak attak, researches on migration, racism and political theory [Berlin]

____Surconventionalist
What Is "Surconventionalism" in the Music of the Composer Pawel Szymanski? (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Pawel Mykietyn, composer [Warsaw]

____Underground I
Nomadic Sonorities. The Migration of Underground Sounds from America to Asia. Audio Examples from the No Wave Movement of NYC to the Esoteric Noise of Osaka, Tokyo and Taiwan (BM6)
Tim Blue, Composer, Performer and Video Maker, Member of the Berlin-based performance group CHEAP [Portland, Berlin]

____Underground II
DIY Music Communities: Still Existing After Punk. Complementary CD (BM6)
Sebastian Hoffmann, Student of American Studies at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin, Concert Organizer "Four Track on Stage" [Berlin]

(MY-)SELF

The black count – The fear of one’s self (Licence No.1)
Charles Graf conflict manager, appointed by the city of Mannheim, former German Boxing Champion [Mannheim]

Schiller à la Jungbusch. A stage for reality – reality as a stage (Licence No.1)
Lisa Massetti actress, theatre pedagogue, currently at the "Creative Factory Jungbusch" [Mannheim]

MYTHOLOGY

The Gift in Fairytales and Myths. In the Saligen, Cindarella and Other Mythological Figures (BM8)
DSA Mag. Andrea Trenkwalder-Egger, lecturer at the FH|University of Applied Sciences study programs for Social Work at the Management Center Innsbruck and at the FH|University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg, social therapist for role play with fairytales and myths, member of the managing committee of the professional association of Austrian social workers [Innsbruck]