These places have stories to tell. Often frowned upon but still dearly loved. Things get a bit more excessive and wilder here than in other pubs. The ceilings and lighting are low and if only their walls could talk…
Wim Wenders, Pharrell, Liam Gallagher and Frank Ocean, they all have received the royal treatment: an illustration by Brian Storm.
He runs ‘Selfmade Records’, the most successful German hip hop label of the last ten years where rappers like Genetikk, Casper or the 257ers are or were under contract. With his new label ‘Division’, he is responsible for RIN who represents a new generation of German hip hop artists. He is also the ‘President of Rap’ at Universal Music Germany, his fashion label ‘Pusher Apparel’ is selling like hotcakes and he has a private collection of sneakers and sweatpants. What drives somebody like Elvir Omerbegovic? THE DORF met the 37 year old at his office in Düsseldorf.
Kaspar van de Water is the brain behind Callshop Radio, a radio station, that is on air since April 2017. Together with Fernando Diaz, he founded the radio station following the example of independent online stations like NTS Radio and Red Light Radio from London and Amsterdam respectively.
A naked man hangs from the ceiling. His long-limbed, life-sized body is the rst thing coming into view, as the heavy studio door opens. The room with high ceilings and the cathedral-like windows is located in a former factory building of the “Duewag” on the edge of the Lierenfeld industrial estate. There is a strong smell of wood in the air. The male nude’s eyes are closed. He is slim, slender and made of limewood. This is the wood from which most of the sculptures of the Düsseldorfer artist Paloma Varga Weisz are made.
‘please excuse my many spelling mistakes in the interview, the keyboard of my laptop is broken and i can’t use capital letters nor question or exclamation marks, haha…sorry’, writes Alice Eikelpoth when sending her questionnaire back.
Wie bereits angekündigt, findet am 13. Juli 2018 der erste Open Source Festival Congress statt. Das neue Format führt den Gedanken der interdisziplinären Kreativität weiter und schafft mit einem internationalen Line-Up aus Denkern, Machern und Visionären eine außergewöhnliche Projektionsfläche für neue Ideen. Im Vorfeld dazu präsentiert euch THE DORF exklusiv die sechs Köpfe, die hinter dem Open Source Festival Congress stehen und die Idee dazu ins Leben gerufen haben.
Bei sipgate batteln 5 Newcomer-Bands wieder um einen Platz für das Open Source Festival 2018. Um welche Themen es diese Woche sonst noch so geht, wie immer hier bei uns von Donnerstag bis Donnerstag.
Das Open Source Festival ist das Pop- und Kulturfestival für die Kreativszene in NRW. Dieses Jahr haben sich die Veranstalter etwas ganz besonderes ausgedacht: Mitten im Pre-Festivalgeschehen wird am 13….
Was euch neben der Eröffnung von Anni Albers im K20 und dem Bücherbummel auf der Kö sonst noch so erwartet, erfahrt ihr wie immer mit den besten Tipps von Donnerstag bis Donnerstag hier bei uns!