Destruction and creation May 17, 2008
The crowning glory was last year's Documenta 12 in the German city of Kassel, in which Ai Weiwei's project, Fairytale, stole the show. The central and most controversial part of Fairytale saw 1001 Chinese citizens being chosen by the artist from more than 3000 internet applications and sent to Germany for a week. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
K+S First-Quarter Profit Doubles on Demand, Higher Prices; Forecast Raised May 14, 2008
52 euros, a year earlier, the Kassel, Germany-based company said today. Analysts in a Bloomberg survey predicted 124. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
INMA Drops the 'Newspaper' from its Name May 13, 2008
Harold Gronke, general manager, Verlag Dierichs, Kassel, Germany. Yasmin Namini, senior vice president/marketing and circulation, the New York Times. (MediaWeek.com)
Josef Mikl, at 78, Austrian postwar painter Apr 6, 2008
Nine years later, he participated in the documenta 6 exhibition of contemporary and experimental art in Kassel, Germany. Mr. Mikl leaves his wife and their daughter, Anna, 18. (Boston Globe)
Josef Mikl, one of Austria's leading postwar painters, dies at 78 Apr 4, 2008
Nine years later, Mikl participated in the documenta 6 exhibition of contemporary and experimental art in Kassel, Germany. The holder of several high Austrian and Vienna awards, Mikl is survived by his widow and their daughter, Anna, 18. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Germany cancels magnetic-levitation train line Mar 28, 2008
A prototype of the new maglev Transrapid high-speed train at a ThyssenKrupp plant in Kassel, Germany. (Alex Grimm/Reuters). (International Herald Tribune -- Money Report)
Napoleon Portrait by Jacques-Louis David, Assumed Lost, Surfaces in Kassel Mar 19, 2008
Napoleon Portrait by David, Assumed Lost, Surfaces in Kassel ... March 18 (Bloomberg) -- A portrait of by the French artist that was assumed lost has resurfaced in the storage rooms of a Kassel museum ... The unfinished painting previously was attributed to Sebastian Weygandt, a little-known German painter of the time, said Thorsten Smidt, the curator of an exhibition on Napoleonic rule in Germany held at Kassel's Fridericianum. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
K+S Climbs to Record After Saying It Might Offer to Buy German Potash Mine Feb 23, 2008
K+S, based in Kassel, Germany, advanced as much as 8. 60 euros, or 4. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Lufthansa Sues to End Frankfurt Night-Flight Limit, Joins Charter Airlines Feb 9, 2008
The state also faces lawsuits by local governments that oppose the airport's expansion, Lothar Fischer, a spokesman for the Hesse Higher Administrative Court in Kassel, said in an interview today. Some are seeking an emergency ruling to halt the project while the case is pending. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Video: Mass Grave Found in Germany Jan 25, 2008
January 24, 2008 Bodies dating back more than 50 years have been uncovered in Kassel, Germany. Experts speculate they may be victims of a Nazi labor camp or a mid-1800s epidemic. (National Geographic)
Unibraw opens link to Germany Jan 13, 2008
MALANG: In an effort to improve its quality, Brawijaya University (Unibraw) in Malang, East Java has signed a cooperation agreement with the University of Kassel, Germany ... This agreement will be the first step for Unibraw to become a world-class university, and includes Unibraw's sending lecturers to study at the University of Kassel. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Call for Artists: Moved Wind Announces its 4th Art Competition Jan 10, 2008
The rural district of Waldeck-Frankenberg close to Kassel presents in its pretty and varied surroundings all these wind(y) art objects from 17 until 31 August 2008 ... It is not without reason that the wind art performance in northwest Germany (nearby Kassel) has awarded prices to artists from South Korea or Surinam (see below) ... moved wind is organized by the area district Waldeck-Frankenberg near the art city Kassel. (AbsoluteArts.com)
VW boss says he did not know of perks and prostitutes Jan 10, 2008
Volkswagen workers in Kassel held a torchlight parade as three of the German car maker's plants were hit by warning strikes because pay talks seemed to be stalled. . (Guardian Unlimited)
Hour-by-hour forecast Jan 3, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 01/03/08 07:15:48 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 55% Visability: 10 miles (16 km). (Florida Today)
Complete weather forecast Dec 7, 2007
Jackson, MS 39201 Last Updated: 12/07/07 07:45:24 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 74% Barometer: 30. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Himsa Summon Sasquatches For Video; Plus Opeth, System Of A Down & More News That Rules, In Metal File Nov 2, 2007
Frontman Helmuth started writing the album in May 2006, and on November 9, the band plans to begin recording the disc's nine songs with producer Andy Classen at Stage One Studios in Kassel, Germany. The yet-untitled disc will be tracked in three sessions before being mastered in mid-January. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Lichtman: "The War" Oct 31, 2007
The Americans would bomb German defense industries while the British would carry out raids on the civilian populations of cities such as Kassel, Wurzburg, Darmstdt, Hilbronn and Hamburg, which was bombed by by the R.A.F., supported by the United States Eighth Army Air Force in the early morning hours of July 28th, 1943. At least 40,000 German civilians died. (Zmag.org)
American Capital Invests $11.5 Million in Portfolio Company HomeAway to Support Growth and Additional Add-On Acquisition Oct 3, 2007
Formed in 2005, HomeAway is headquartered in Austin, TX and maintains a call center in Hardy, VA, European headquarters in Acton, U.K., and offices in Kassel, Germany and Marseilles, France. Founded in 1997, the Ashtead, U.K.-based Owners Direct Holiday Rentals operates an online vacation rental listing marketplace for primarily European properties. (PR Newswire)
Scotland Yard Hunts German Terror Suspect Sep 30, 2007
The plot was foiled on Sept. 4 when three men were arrested at a rented holiday apartment near the central German town of Kassel. Police recovered chemicals and bomb-making equipment which investigators believe would have led to the biggest loss of life since the 9/11 attacks in America six years ago. (Fox News)
Jens Ehrhardt Drives Porsche Convertible, Shuns Stock on U.S. Dependence Sep 19, 2007
7 percent of its assets are in Kassel, Germany- based K+S, the world's third-biggest producer of potash used in fertilizers. Shares of K+S, which gets less than 5 percent of its revenue in the U.S., rose 31 percent this year to 112 euros. (Bloomberg)
Former German exchange students reunite in Lodi Sep 17, 2007
Her city, Kassel, was bombed by the U.S. during World War II. The children were evacuated and allowed to see their parents only once a month, Klein said. Erwin Wolharn, a former German exchange student, plays the accordion and sings on Sunday afternoon at a reunion held for Woodbridge Grange members and former German exchange students. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Bomb threat against US base in Germany Sep 12, 2007
Fritz Martin Gelowicz, a 28-year-old German Islamic convert, was caught with bomb-making equipment in a rented holiday apartment near Kassel on Tuesday last week. His accomplices, Daniel Schneider, 21, another German Islamic convert, and Adem Yilmaz, a 28-year-old Turkish citizen, were also arrested. (Independent)
Role Reversal: Humans Suck Life Out Of Leeches Sep 10, 2007
Global warming may be to blame for the gradual extinction of cold-loving species, and the European land leech in particular, according to Ulrich Kutschera and colleagues from the University of Kassel in Germany and the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz in Austria. Their findings show that human-induced temperature increases over a 40-year period in the Graz region of Austria may have led to the near extinction of the local land leech Xerobdella lecomtei. (Science Daily)
Body language Sep 9, 2007
Soon afterwards, Nicholas Serota saw Barney's early video piece OTTOshaft at the Documenta IX art exhibition in Kassel, Germany in 1992, and snapped it up for the Tate Modern collection. It is a strange homage to Jim Otto, an American footballer who fascinated Barney because, following serious injury, he continued playing using plastic kneecaps. (Guardian Unlimited)
K+S to Spend $1 Billion to Open New Mine as Potash Demand Reaches Capacity Sep 3, 2007
The company, based in Kassel, Germany plans to enter a 50-50 joint venture to develop a $2 billion site with an annual capacity of 2 million tons, Chief Executive Officer Norbert Steiner said in an interview. We are in well-advanced talks,'' said Steiner, who replaced Ralf Bethke on July 1. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
WEATHER: Thunderstorms possible Aug 28, 2007
Weather - 7-day Forecast Summaries. Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 08/28/07 09:30:35 EDT. (Florida Today)
While the students are away, the professors will play Aug 9, 2007
Several members of the art department traveled to Europe to attend the Documenta art show in Kassel, Germany and the Biennale in Venice, Italy. According to University Art Museum Director Jill Hartz, the shows are considered to be two of the most important contemporary art exhibitions today. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
Germany pushes for return of war booty Aug 2, 2007
The emotional store put on returns of looted art was illustrated this week with the unveiling to the public of an exquisite ivory figure from 1700, which was last seen on a train-load of art works heading for safekeeping in Kassel in March 1945. The 22cm (8. (Guardian Unlimited)
POSTCARD FROM... Jun 23, 2007
Postcard from Kassel ... Visitors walk past "The Zoo Story" a work by the artist Peter Friedl at documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany, June 15, 2007 ... The Grand Tour, of course, is this year's unprecedented coincidence of well-established major art extravaganzas the Venice Biennale, the bi-annual ArtBasel in Switzerland, the quinquennial Documenta in Kassel, Germany all of which opened during the same week in mid-June. (Time.com)
* World News Quick Take Jun 22, 2007
GERMANY Chinese sculpture falls A severe storm caused the collapse of an 8m tall work by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at a major contemporary art show in Kassel on Wednesday, organizers said. Template, an archlike structure being exhibited outdoors, collapsed in on itself "in astonishingly aesthetic fashion," said Catrin Seefranz, a spokeswoman for the Documenta show. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Pondering the contemporary show at Kassel Jun 22, 2007
Jens Meyer/The Associated Press Visitors at the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's installation, "Template," made of doors and windows of destroyed houses of the Ming and Qing dynasty, on display at Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany ... KASSEL, Germany: Once every five summers the charismatic exhibition called Documenta transforms this ashen industrial city smack in the middle of the country into an international culture center ... You go to glamorous, sun-splashed Venice to party, gaze, and graze; you... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
100 days of ineptitude Jun 19, 2007
" actor Harvey Keitel asks as he wanders the ruins on an ancient battlefield. World-weary chorus, oracle and everyman, Keitel is a solitary agonist in Irish artist James Coleman's 45-minute film installation, Retake With Evidence (2007). Keitel is unsurprised when no answer is forthcoming, knowing it is futile to interrogate the broken statuary or the skulls in the dirt. "I should not have come here," he opines. You and me both, I think, wishing for some of Keitel's stoicism and built-in... (Guardian Unlimited)
Unblinking look at North earns Canadian attention Jun 18, 2007
For the past two weeks, serious art types have doggedly slogged across western Europe from the 52nd Venice Biennale to Art Basel in Switzerland, then north into Germany for sculpture in Mnster and finally to Kassel, Germany, for Documenta 12 ... Pootoogook's deceptively simple colour pencil drawings showing life in the raw around her home in Cape Dorset, Nunavut many of them shown in Toronto at the Power Plant last year, arranged by Nancy Campbell now hang in the Neue Galerie, Kassel's large... (Toronto Star)
Opera, art, film on a grandiose scale 'Anselm Kiefer: Falling Stars' Jun 17, 2007
KASSEL, Germany through Sept. 23 ... This year's version is being held at four sites in Kassel and includes works from a wide range of genres and styles and many countries. (Boston Globe)
Weird German Art; Glover's Feet; Kempner's Chic; Stone Soup: Global Arts Jun 15, 2007
June 15 (Bloomberg) -- Documenta occurs every five years in Kassel, a small, undistinguished town smack in the middle of Germany, easily accessible from Berlin or Frankfurt. On view starting tomorrow are 500 artworks strewn across venues ranging from the obvious (art museums) to the obscure (a No. 4 tram). (Bloomberg -- Germany)
China's contemporary art goes global Jun 14, 2007
Together with Ai Weiwei, the "grandfather" of Chinese art and all things creative, Yan Lei will be traveling to the five-yearly Kassel Documenta in Germany this June to show some of his paintings. Started in 1955, the Kassel Documenta is one of the world's most important contemporary art exhibitions. (Asia Times Online)
Infotainment Jun 12, 2007
A Chinese artist will bring 1,001 of his compatriots to Germany to spend months wandering around the city of Kassel as live-exhibits for his entry to a leading modern art show. Ai WeiWeis Fairytale artwork will cost 2. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Raccoons, a Nazi legacy, are a nuisance in Germany May 28, 2007
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They're An Ecological Disaster, But They Look So Cute May 27, 2007
" Dieter Hoffmann wagged an accusing finger at a visitor: "We like the United States of America, but we do not like your Waschbaeren (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
Travel to Europe by Americans remains strong Apr 8, 2007
People stand and walk in front of the municipal hall of Kassel, Germany, June 6, 2002 ... 23 in Kassel, Germany ... 23 in Kassel, Germany. (North County Times)
Americans still travel to Europe Mar 27, 2007
23 in Kassel, Germany. The Venice Biennale, held every other year, runs June 10-Nov. (MSNBC -- Travel)
* Death comes to all Mar 23, 2007
He as diagnosed with the disease just a few months after taking the job as artistic director of the Staatstheater Kassel Dance Company in Germany ... "When he passed away I invited three dancers from Kassel X classmates and friends from Essen X to come last summer for three weeks of intensive rehearsal.". (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Organic industry booms in Germany Jan 8, 2007
"We are out of oats... there are no more organic eggs to be had in Germany and France and when it comes to potatoes, nobody knows how we are going to keep the customer satisfied past mid-January," said Ulrich Hamm, the head of the agriculture and food marketing department at Kassel University ... Kassel University's Hamm said Germany's organic food suppliers may have to fall back on imports from Latin America or Canada but for many fans this runs contrary to the philosophy of using seasonal... (iAfrica.com)
Consumers Soon May Face Organic Food Shortage as Demand Stretches Supply Jan 6, 2007
Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- German consumers may soon face a shortage of organic food as supply can't keep up with rising demand, said Ulrich Hamm, a professor for agricultural sciences at the University of Kassel, Germany. Supermarkets and specialty retailers sold about 5 billion euros ($6. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
