Mario Häring in the Naci Talat Foundation
By Heidi Trautmann…..
The “Weeks of the German Language” is an annual festival since 2017 across the island organised by the Embassies of Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Goethe-Institut Cyprus in October and November.
On the 3rd of November a reception was held at the Naci Talat Foundation in Nicosia organised by the Turkish Cypriot-German Cultural Association, with its President İbrahim Toprakçı, in cooperation with the German Embassy and the Ambassador Anke Schlimm and with the support of the Naci Talat Foundation and its President Dr. Sila Usar.
In the opening speeches, the importance of multilingualism and the exchange of culture was emphasized in order to understand each other better and find ways to each other.
For this occasion, the internationally renowned German/Japanese pianist Mario Häring played his interpretations of pieces for us by the German composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner/Franz Liszt and Robert Schumann. (I have attached the programme click here) It was a musical evening of absolute beauty.
After the concert, there was the chance to meet and speak with the Ambassador Anke Schlimm, who is very open to improve relations and communication with the North, and with many friends and representatives of organisations.
We should have more such encounters because language was given to us humans and we should use it. Conflicts are solved by words and not swords.
P.S. : Murat Obenler shared his photos with me….
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