Khabarovsk, Russia
Revelations are everywhere. The slogan of the Days of German-Russian culture this year - “On the Path of Revelation” - suggested that we look at the world around us from the point of view of a researcher. When you see the world with a clear and inquisitive gaze every day is like a journey, full of surprising revelations. The festival invited people on a journey during which each person could become an investigator and make his own discoveries – through movies, exhibitions, lectures, meetings and, of course, in conversation.
The days of German-Russian culture in Khabarovsk, which were held on October 3-11, took place already for the 17th time. The main organizer of the festival was St. John's Lutheran congregation; they, together with many co-organizers, continue to initiate and to develop creative dialog between the community and artists from Germany and Russia. They invite people to find revelation in meetings with art, with one another, with other points of view - meetings which widen horizons and open up new paths.
The festival of new German cinema, organized by the Goethe Institute of Novosibirsk, acquainted people with the best German films of the last couple of years. The movie theater “Sovkino” hosted the opening of the festive, “Measuring the World” (director Detlev Buk), based on the novel by Daniel Kelman. It told about the life of the famous German researchers, Alexander von Humbult and Karl Friedrich Gauss, in an exciting and intriguing way.
The theme of journeys and revelations was taken up at the exhibition - “Alexander von Humbult – a man of the universe” in the Grodenkov History Museum. September 14 would have been the 245th birthday of this leading German scientist. His American and Russia-Siberian expeditions were an example for other scientists-explorers. Thanks to Humbult contacts between scientists throughout Europe were made more active. He believed that in the “scientific republic where the peoples of Europe should be in mutual exchange, bringing hope for further fruitful cooperation of all European countries.”
The center of academic events for the Days of German culture was the Far East State Research Library. Among the interactive lectures given there was one by the congregation's former pastor, Markus Lesinski. His lecture was entitled “I am not like you. Something of you is in me, and also in you there is a piece of me. Globalization and Mobility as a path to trans-culturalism.” Pastor Lesinksi, after ministry in Khabarovsk and Germany and projects in Egypt and Ethiopia, is now working in New Delhi; Markus not only led a lectures, but also actively worked in the team of organizers – gave interviews with the press, participated in the opening of the exhibition, met with university students and representatives of the Khabarovsk Russian Orthodox Seminary. During the seminar he led Bible studies, worship and celebrated Harvest Festival together with the congregation. This was Pastor Lesinksi's second visit to the Far East this year. We are thankful to Dean Manfred Brockman for inviting him as a lecturer to the summer seminar of the deanery in the Bay of Vityaz.
This year's German-Russian days came to a close with a youth “happening” by the “Forum Theater.” This is already the 10th year that this theater has invited people to come to new revelations about their ideas, their talents, themselves and the world around them.
This event helped us think about the next, 18th, Days of German-Russian culture in Khabarovsk. The festival remains popular in the city and the region and shows that St. John Lutheran church is a congregations which is alive, creative and open to conversation and dialog.
Revelations are everywhere. The slogan of the Days of German-Russian culture this year - “On the Path of Revelation” - suggested that we look at the world around us from the point of view of a researcher. When you see the world with a clear and inquisitive gaze every day is like a journey, full of surprising revelations. The festival invited people on a journey during which each person could become an investigator and make his own discoveries – through movies, exhibitions, lectures, meetings and, of course, in conversation.
The days of German-Russian culture in Khabarovsk, which were held on October 3-11, took place already for the 17th time. The main organizer of the festival was St. John's Lutheran congregation; they, together with many co-organizers, continue to initiate and to develop creative dialog between the community and artists from Germany and Russia. They invite people to find revelation in meetings with art, with one another, with other points of view - meetings which widen horizons and open up new paths.
The festival of new German cinema, organized by the Goethe Institute of Novosibirsk, acquainted people with the best German films of the last couple of years. The movie theater “Sovkino” hosted the opening of the festive, “Measuring the World” (director Detlev Buk), based on the novel by Daniel Kelman. It told about the life of the famous German researchers, Alexander von Humbult and Karl Friedrich Gauss, in an exciting and intriguing way.
The theme of journeys and revelations was taken up at the exhibition - “Alexander von Humbult – a man of the universe” in the Grodenkov History Museum. September 14 would have been the 245th birthday of this leading German scientist. His American and Russia-Siberian expeditions were an example for other scientists-explorers. Thanks to Humbult contacts between scientists throughout Europe were made more active. He believed that in the “scientific republic where the peoples of Europe should be in mutual exchange, bringing hope for further fruitful cooperation of all European countries.”
The center of academic events for the Days of German culture was the Far East State Research Library. Among the interactive lectures given there was one by the congregation's former pastor, Markus Lesinski. His lecture was entitled “I am not like you. Something of you is in me, and also in you there is a piece of me. Globalization and Mobility as a path to trans-culturalism.” Pastor Lesinksi, after ministry in Khabarovsk and Germany and projects in Egypt and Ethiopia, is now working in New Delhi; Markus not only led a lectures, but also actively worked in the team of organizers – gave interviews with the press, participated in the opening of the exhibition, met with university students and representatives of the Khabarovsk Russian Orthodox Seminary. During the seminar he led Bible studies, worship and celebrated Harvest Festival together with the congregation. This was Pastor Lesinksi's second visit to the Far East this year. We are thankful to Dean Manfred Brockman for inviting him as a lecturer to the summer seminar of the deanery in the Bay of Vityaz.
This year's German-Russian days came to a close with a youth “happening” by the “Forum Theater.” This is already the 10th year that this theater has invited people to come to new revelations about their ideas, their talents, themselves and the world around them.
This event helped us think about the next, 18th, Days of German-Russian culture in Khabarovsk. The festival remains popular in the city and the region and shows that St. John Lutheran church is a congregations which is alive, creative and open to conversation and dialog.
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