The Error Is Regretted / Wir entschuldigen uns für diesen Fehler

The Error is Regretted is the 20-year anniversary publication of Anita Di Bianco’s project Corrections and Clarifications. Next to a new 96-page newspaper edition, that reflects the current news, the book contains text contributions by Anita Di Bianco, Anna Bromley, Francesco Gagliardi and Florian Wüst.

Corrections and Clarifications is an ongoing newsprint project, an edited compilation of daily revisions, retractions, re-wordings, distinctions and apologies to print and online news from September 2001 to the present. A catalog of lapses in naming and classification, of tangled catchphrases, patterns of mis-speech and inflection, connotation and enumeration. An intermittent newspaper without headlines, a distillation of the predictive patterns and algorithmic amplifications of the last two decades, from fake news to the attention economy.

Previous volumes of Corrections and Clarifications have been produced, exhibited, and distributed in numerous cities, languages, and art institutions since 2001, including KW Berlin, Kunsthaus Zürich, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, STUK, Camberwell College London, Springerin Magazin, Extra City, collectorspace Istanbul, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Distributed by Printed Matter, New York; held in the archival collection of Sammlung KIOSK Kunstbibliothek Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The publication includes text contributions by Anita Di Bianco, Anna Bromley, Francesco Gagliardi and Florian Wüst.
The book is published at the occasion of the exhibition at A—Z Presents in Berlin, 11/11–7/12/2021

New Grammar of Ornament

In New Grammar of Ornament, Thomas Weil compares current ornamental objects with the results of archaeological research on ornamental artifacts and concludes that there is an anthropological constant. From the recurring arrangements of stripes, rectangles, triangles and dots and the frequency of the forms of floral ornaments used, he derives a new “grammar of ornament.”
Ornaments are omnipresent—they can be found on buildings, fabrics, jewelry, tiles, ceramics and wallpaper. Scorned at the beginning of the modern age, ornament has long since returned to architecture and influences design drafts as much as tattoo motifs.
More than 160 years after Owen Jones’ influential publication, New Grammar of Ornament is a new standard work. It categorizes the variety of ornamental forms used worldwide and for the first time places them in a major art and cultural-historical context.

Hallo Kopenhagen

In this book author and photographer Harriet Dohmeyer takes us by the hand and shows us highlights of the Scandinavian metropolis. The smallest hotel in the world and the story of four friends who have made a big name for themselves in the city with excellent coffee – these are just two samples.
The book is the perfect travel companion for anyone who wants to make their own lanes through the Danish capital instead of just swimming in the tourist stream. For the updated 2nd edition, author and photographer Harriet visited the city again, found new places and interviewed even more exciting founders. Look forward to the new Nordic cuisine, special coffee places and hidden highlights in quiet side streets!
Overview of all featured recommendations – illustrated as a map by Amsterdam artist Saskia Rasink.
Locally and climate neutrally printed in Hamburg, St. Pauli

Mix & Stir – New Outlooks on Contemporary Art from Global Perspectives

Mix & Stir, this book’s aim is an endeavour to understand art as being a panhuman phenomenon of all times and cultures; to steer away from the persistent Eurocentric/Western-centric viewpoint towards a transcultural and transnational interconnected model of exchange and processes of interculturalization.
Mix & Stir wants to expand this landscape by bringing to the fore new, recalcitrant, queer, idiosyncratic practices and discourses, theories and topics, methods and concerns that open up ways to approach art from a global perspective.

Analogous to a cookery book filled with recipes and instruction, Mix & Stir explores new outlooks on contemporary art from global perspectives. It intends to encourage studying art beyond national constraints, cultural dominances, and hierarchies: a voyage similar to that of culinary discovery. The book brings a variety of tastes and flavours to the table, and breaks new ground by allowing innovative, contrary, queer, idiosyncratic practices and discourses, theories and topics, methods, and concerns to access art in its global dimensions.

Researchers, curators and artists with a special interest in this topical issue were invited to present, develop, outline, and contemplate compelling frames of reference, both theoretical and artistic, in order to arrive at a true ‘world art studies’. Their contributions are structured in seven thematic fields: Undecidability and Spectatorship, Collectives, Circulations, Exhibitions, Artists at Work, Postcolonial Perspectives, and Deep Art History.
The reader is invited to explore the vast supply of dishes, to taste and test the aromas and to feast.

Illustrated with various black and white images
Contributions: Thomas J. Berghuis, Elisabeth de Bièvre, John Clark, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Parisa Damandan, Wilfried van Damme, Sophie Ernst, Angèle Etoundi Essamba. Paul Faber, Claire Farago, Anne Gerritsen, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, Isabel Hoving, Stijn Huijts, Joo Yun Lee, Nancy Jouwe, Remy Jungerman, Sonja van Kerkhoff, Meta Knol, Frans-Willem Korsten, Katja Kwastek, Sybille Lammes, Charl Landvreugd, Gregor Langfeld, Chris Lee, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Virginia MacKenny, Sarat Maharaj, Tirzo Martha, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Larissa Mendoza Straffon, Ni Haifeng, Stéphanie Noach, Anja Novak, John Onians, Rob Perrée, Georges Petitjean, Rosalien van der Poel, Jennifer Pranolo, Lize van Robbroeck, Pippa Skotnes, Henk Slager, Rudi Struik, Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Leonor Veiga, Leon Wainwright, James Webb, Janneke Wesseling, Helen Westgeest, Carine Zaayman, Kitty Zijlmans, Robert Zwijnenberg
2021, Valiz with support of Mondriaan Fonds, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA), University of the Arts, The Hague / Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University.

Curating Digital Art – From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-curation

What is the role of the curator when organizing digital art exhibitions in offline and online spaces? This book focuses on how the experiments of curators, artists and designers have opened the possibility to reconfigure traditional models and methods of presenting and accessing digital art.
In the process, it addresses how web-based practices challenge certain established museological values and precipitate alternative ways of understanding art’s stewardship, curatorial responsibility, public access and art history. Through more than twenty interviews with artists and curators in the course of the last ten years, and flanked by an extensive timeline, the reader of this publication is given an insight into the discourse on digital art and its curation today.

Annet Dekker is a curator and researcher. She is Assistant Professor Media Studies: Archival and Information Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor and co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University. She has previously been Researcher Digital Preservation at Tate, London, core tutor at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and Fellow at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. She has published in numerous collections and journals and is the editor of several volumes, including Lost and Living [in] Archives. Collectively Shaping New Memories (2017, Valiz)

Contributors: Pita Arreola-Burns, Evelyn Austin, LaTurbo Avedon, Paul Barsch, Livia Benedetti, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Elliott Burns, Tom Clark, Marco De Mutiis, Constant Dullaart, Madja Edelstein-Gomez, Amber van den Eeden, Rebecca Edwards, Rózsa Farkas, Marialaura Ghidini, Manique Hendricks, Tilman Hornig, Florian Kuhlmann, Kalle Mattsson, Anika Meier, Marie Meixnerová, Laura Mousavi, Katja Novitskova, Domenico Quaranta, Stefan Riebel, Ryder Ripps, Sakrowski, Katrina Sluis, Lilian Stolk, Systaime a.k.a. Michaël Borras, Gaia Tedone, Jon Uriarte, Miyö Van Stenis, Nimrod Vardi, Marcela Vieira, ZHANG Ga

2021, Valiz supported by Creative Industries Fund NL, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds NL.

Burning Images – A History of Effigy Protests

Effigy hanging and burning, a specific theatrical form of political protest, has become increasingly visible in the news media, particularly in protests against United States military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, in US domestic politics, and in the Arab Spring. Taking these events as points of departure, Göttke investigates the conditions of this visual genre of protest, its roots and genealogies in a number of countries, its aesthetics and politics.

Effigy protests communicate communal outrage over perceived injustice. Hanging and burning effigies is an archaic and ritualistic form of protest, yet it is effectively communicated through global news media and social media, mediated, and used trans-nationally. The book contains two interacting narratives: text (seven chapters) and a parallel montage of images. It delves deeply into the different practices, iconologies, rituals, protest and media strategies, as well as into politics and concludes with a reflection on how the effigy protests act as a symptom of fundamental conflicts at the limits of contemporary liberal democracy.

With many images from the United States, Iraq, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, and many other areas.

Florian Göttke is a visual artist, researcher, and writer based in Amsterdam. He combines visual modes of research (collecting, close reading, and image montage) with academic research to investigate the functioning of public images and their relationship to social memory and politics. Göttke has exhibited internationally, has written articles for academic journals and art publications. His book Toppled, an iconological study of the toppled statues of Saddam Hussein, was nominated for the Dutch Doc Award 2011.

September 2021, Valiz with support of Mondriaan Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design

The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design is emerging from a growing recognition of design’s capacity to make sense of one’s world while at the same time to express and convey this personal insight or knowledge through rich, layered, and ultimately meaningful processes or objects.
Auto-ethnographic design seeks to come to terms with one’s context and self—as well as the materiality that mediates these two. In doing so, it offers a vision of design that is free of commercial commissions, assumed users’ needs, or well-intentioned do-goodism. It reveals a sincerity and genuine commitment in the process of design that is too often missing.
The book consists of two parts:
“Ideas and Dialogues” (reflections and conversations between critics, theorists, educators, and practitioners), which ground conceptions of auto-ethnography and the “self” and explore how experiences can be relevant and meaningful starting points for design and visual art.
“Projects and Practices,’ which embody auto-ethnographic qualities—whereby design objects and practices are embedded with personal sentiments, experiences, desires, fears, and more.
Contributions: Anna Aagaard Jensen, Gijs Assmann, Bruno Baietto, Jurgen Bey, Joel Blanco, Théophile Blandet, Jan Boelen, Hsin Min Chan, Chongjin Chen, Meghan Clarke, Adelaide Di Nunzio, Billy Ernst, Hi Kyung Eun, Teresa Fernández-Pello, Andrea Gaspar, Konstantin Grcic, Metincan Güzel, Jing He, Aurelie Hoegy, Michael Kaethler, Hicham Khalidi, Žan Kobal, Lorraine Legrand, Gabriel .A. Maher, Micheline Nahra, Thomas Nathan, Miguel Parrrra, Timo de Rijk, Marie Rime, Sjeng Scheijen, Bianca Schick, Louise Schouwenberg, Carlos Sfeir Vottero, Weixiao Shen/申薇笑, Matilde Stolfa, Oli Stratford, Marianne Theunissen, Goda Verikaitė, Erik Viskil, Barbara Visser, Ben Shai van der Wal.
2021, Valiz, with support of Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Design Academy Eindhoven.

Letterform Variations

692 pages containing 19,840 letters, all derived from one framework. Letterform Variations is a playful study into letterform construction using basic grid and shape based systems, and its potential to generate vast amounts of varying alphabetical outcomes.

Letterform Variations is the product of Nigel Cottier’s methodology for developing letterforms that are based partly on visual transformations generated by algorithmic functions, such as constraints, rules, grids, and modules, and partly on designerly judgements about composition, balance and visual dynamics. Cottier’s modular systems are built within expansive design spaces that facilitate the production of an almost infinite range of outputs, but what distinguishes them is the considered choices he makes subsequently, categorizing, and editing his results as competent and handsome representations of alphabetic forms. This connection between impartial geometric shapes and the alphabetic code brings to mind Paul Elliman’s contention that the boundaries between typography, typology and topography are never distinct.

Awarded with Type Directors Club New York.

Grafikmagazin 01.21 – “The Digital Museum”

As the name indicates, Grafikmagazin is a print magazine focusing on all things graphic design. Primarily it’s aimed at professional creatives and design students from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and beyond. Every two months, Grafikmagazin presents outstanding work from the fields of graphic design, typography, illustration, photography, design theory, research, paper and printing.

The editorial team of Grafikmagazin created a variety of sections and and categories, but selects focus themes for each issue, like “The Digital Museum”. The topics portray how imaginative, eclectic and playful many aspects of graphic design can be, while also featuring successful branding concepts and niche ideas.

In the extensive “Showroom” section, readers can get to know other creatives and the stories behind design studios from around the world. In this first issue, typographer Marta Bernstein and graphic icon Paula Scher were featured amongst others.
The “Design & Research” category presents interdisciplinary projects that show how science and research can benefit from creative solutions and play an active role in graphic design.

In the “Production & Publishing” section everything revolves around the topic of print. Here you will find exquisite books, sophisticated annual reports and high-quality embossed greeting cards. Also, the cover artists of each issue are interviewed or get to highlight their ideas. Each cover is printed on a different paper and the design interprets the particular Grafik+ theme in a broader way or shares a fresh perspective on an individual design technique.

The Grafikmagazin team, its correspondents and freelancers are bound and driven by the strong belief that print is not dead at all. With the will to prove just how alive it is, and the motivation to start something fresh and yet deeply traditional, they strive for nothing less than to create another print magazine that makes history.

Grafikmagazin 02.21 – “Corporate Communication”

As the name indicates, Grafikmagazin is a print magazine focusing on all things graphic design. Primarily it’s aimed at professional creatives and design students from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and beyond. Every two months, Grafikmagazin presents outstanding work from the fields of graphic design, typography, illustration, photography, design theory, research, paper and printing.

The editorial team of Grafikmagazin created a variety of sections and and categories, but selects focus themes for each issue like “Corporate Communication”. The topics portray how imaginative, eclectic and playful many aspects of graphic design can be, while also featuring successful branding concepts and niche ideas.

In the extensive “Showroom” section, readers can get to know other creatives and the stories behind design studios from around the world. In this second issue Grafikmagazin 02.21 – “Corporate Communication”, versatile creative director Linda van Deursen and the communication agency Bedow were featured amongst others.

The “Design & Research” category presents interdisciplinary projects that show how science and research can benefit from creative solutions and play an active role in graphic design.
In the “Production & Publishing” section everything revolves around the topic of print. Here you will find exquisite books, sophisticated annual reports and high-quality embossed greeting cards. Also, the cover artists of each issue are interviewed or get to highlight their ideas. Each cover is printed on a different paper and the design interprets the particular Grafik+ theme in a broader way or shares a fresh perspective on an individual design technique.

The Grafikmagazin team, its correspondents and freelancers are bound and driven by the strong belief that print is not dead at all. With the will to prove just how alive it is, and the motivation to start something fresh and yet deeply traditional, they strive for nothing less than to create another print magazine that makes history.

Grafikmagazin 03.21 – “What’s Cooking?”

As the name indicates, Grafikmagazin is a print magazine focusing on all things graphic design. Primarily it’s aimed at professional creatives and design students from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and beyond. Every two months, Grafikmagazin presents outstanding work from the fields of graphic design, typography, illustration, photography, design theory, research, paper and printing.

The editorial team of Grafikmagazin created a variety of sections and and categories, but selects focus themes for each issue like “What’s Cooking?”. The topics portray how imaginative, eclectic and playful many aspects of graphic design can be, while also featuring successful branding concepts and niche ideas.

In the extensive “Showroom” section, readers can get to know other creatives and the stories behind design studios from around the world. In this third issue Grafikmagazin 03.21 – “What’s Cooking?”, Swiss creative director Dennis Moya Razafimandimby and the New Zeadland based communication agency Seachange were featured amongst others.

The “Design & Research” category presents interdisciplinary projects that show how science and research can benefit from creative solutions and play an active role in graphic design.
In the “Production & Publishing” section everything revolves around the topic of print. Here you will find exquisite books, sophisticated annual reports and high-quality embossed greeting cards. Also, the cover artists of each issue are interviewed or get to highlight their ideas. Each cover is printed on a different paper and the design interprets the particular Grafik+ theme in a broader way or shares a fresh perspective on an individual design technique.

The Grafikmagazin team, its correspondents and freelancers are bound and driven by the strong belief that print is not dead at all. With the will to prove just how alive it is, and the motivation to start something fresh and yet deeply traditional, they strive for nothing less than to create another print magazine that makes history.

Grafikmagazin 04.21 – “Typography”

As the name indicates, Grafikmagazin is a print magazine focusing on all things graphic design. Primarily it’s aimed at professional creatives and design students from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and beyond. Every two months, Grafikmagazin presents outstanding work from the fields of graphic design, typography, illustration, photography, design theory, research, paper and printing.

The editorial team of Grafikmagazin created a variety of sections and categories, but selects focus themes for each issue like “Typography”. The topics portray how imaginative, eclectic and playful many aspects of graphic design can be, while also featuring successful branding concepts and niche ideas.

In the extensive “Showroom” section, readers can get to know other creatives and the stories behind design studios from around the world. In this forth issue Grafikmagazin 04.21 – “Typography”, graphic design icon Joe Caroff was featured amongst others.

The “Design & Research” category presents interdisciplinary projects that show how science and research can benefit from creative solutions and play an active role in graphic design.
In the “Production & Publishing” section everything revolves around the topic of print. Here you will find exquisite books, sophisticated annual reports and high-quality embossed greeting cards. Also, the cover artists of each issue are interviewed or get to highlight their ideas.
Each cover is printed on a different paper and the design interprets the particular Grafik+ theme in a broader way or shares a fresh perspective on an individual design technique.

The Grafikmagazin team, its correspondents and freelancers are bound and driven by the strong belief that print is not dead at all. With the will to prove just how alive it is, and the motivation to start something fresh and yet deeply traditional, they strive for nothing less than to create another print magazine that makes history.

Grafikmagazin 05.21

As the name indicates, Grafikmagazin is a print magazine focusing on all things graphic design. Primarily it’s aimed at professional creatives and design students from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and beyond. Every two months, Grafikmagazin presents outstanding work from the fields of graphic design, typography, illustration, photography, design theory, research, paper and printing.

The editorial team of Grafikmagazin created a variety of sections and and categories, but selects focus themes for each issue like “What’s Cooking?”. The topics portray how imaginative, eclectic and playful many aspects of graphic design can be, while also featuring successful branding concepts and niche ideas.

In the extensive »Showroom« section, readers can get to know other creatives and the stories behind design studios from around the world. In this third issue, German-Russian illustrator Alexandra Turban and the Amsterdam based communication agency The Rodina were featured amongst others.

The »Design & Research« category presents interdisciplinary projects that show how science and research can benefit from creative solutions and play an active role in graphic design. In the “Production & Publishing” section everything revolves around the topic of print. Here you will find exquisite books, sophisticated annual reports and high-quality embossed greeting cards. Also, the cover artists of each issue are interviewed or get to highlight their ideas. Each cover is printed on a different paper and the design interprets the particular Grafik+ theme in a broader way or shares a fresh perspective on an individual design technique.

The Grafikmagazin team, its correspondents and freelancers are bound and driven by the strong belief that print is not dead at all. With the will to prove just how alive it is, and the motivation to start something fresh and yet deeply traditional, they strive for nothing less than to create another print magazine that makes history.

PAPIERRETTER Sketchbook

Notebook and sketchbook in 210×280 mm format with 40 pages of Fedrigoni Arcoprint Milk 85g. The 5 sheets were stapled and glued in a staggered manner.
PAPIERRETTER embossing on front.

Slanted Magazine #38—Colours

Available as an ebook in bookstores and on all common platforms.

In the spring of 2021, Slanted Publishers launched a global call for submissions and showcases of color. From more than 1,300 submissions, the works of 300 designers, illustrators, photographers, writers, and artists from around the world were selected to be part of Slanted Magazine #38—Colours.

The issue celebrates happiness, joy of life, power, symbolism, and the meaning of color. We look for contrast, colorful typography, gradients, fun, chaos, shock. We celebrate art, illustration, fashion, photography—but most of all we look for strong, meaningful graphic design though in a colorful way.

Joan Miro said: “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.” Ultimately, Slanted Magazine #38—Colours is an ode to the joy and happiness of life with all its gradations of symbolism and meaningful implications. Color is more than just fashion. It is a statement for an entire era!

Beside the issue two very limited special editions have been published: A high quality sweater from Reell with a colorful design by Kris Andrew Small and a set of postcards printed with vivid colors by Herr & Frau Rio on a risograph.

“Slanted falls in love with and attracts typography enthusiasts as well as designers of all kinds, as it digs into its monographs to turn each issue into visual gold .”
RAYITAS AZULES, Salva Cerdá
Awarded with ADC Award Germany (Bronze).

Out of the Blue—Limited Edition Sweater

On occasion of the release of Slanted Magazine #38—Colours, we teamed up with fashion brand Reell and artist Kris Andrew Small to create a unique high-quality sweater with an eye-catching two-color silkscreen print. It is limited to only 100 pieces and is a real statement piece.

About Kris Andrew Small

Based in Sydney, Kris Andrew Small’s work is a joyful explosion of color, typography, pattern, and collage. He often takes societal issues and channels them through loud and abstract visuals. That’s not to say his work is heavy, though, in fact, his portfolio is one of utter exuberance.

For the motif of the limited edition sweater, the artist received a carte blanche from Slanted on the theme of colors—the result is not only a play on words in his signature style, but can also be seen as an encouragement. Out of the Blue!

Slanted × Reell—A perfect fit!

Founded in 1997 with a simple idea, functional, well-designed pants, Reell is a pan-European brand on a mission to innovate. Well beyond simply being a pants specialist, their backbone remains quality products at honest prices. A passion for aesthetic and clean design makes what they are. The Reell family has grown with athletes, artists, and free spirits who manage to pursue their passion and remain true to themselves. These individuals represent who they are.

The sweater is available in a unisex size of S–XL. To find the right size, please check Reell’s size chart online, the return is excluded for this product.

Photos: © Thomas Mandl
Model: Marie

Limited Special Edition Colours / Magazine + Riso Postcards

Fifty-Fifty in its most beautiful form: On occasion of the release of Slanted Magazine #38—Colours, we have teamed up with Herr & Frau Rio, a risography printing company from Munich, and published a set consisting of 6 high-quality postcards in DIN A5 in a limited edition. The graphic postcards on high quality uncoated paper have gorgeous color combinations and are suitable for many occasions.

Time again to leave a colorful message!

Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Production: Herr & Frau Rio
Release: October 2021
Set of 6 postcards
Edition: 200 sets, numbered
Format: 10.5 × 14.8 cm
Printing: Risography

Slanted Magazine #38—Colours

In the spring of 2021, Slanted Publishers launched a global call for submissions and showcases of color. From more than 1,300 submissions, the works of 300 designers, illustrators, photographers, writers, and artists from around the world were selected to be part of Slanted Magazine #38—Colours. 

The issue celebrates happiness, joy of life, power, symbolism, and the meaning of color. We look for contrast, colorful typography, gradients, fun, chaos, shock. We celebrate art, illustration, fashion, photography—but most of all we look for strong, meaningful graphic design though in a colorful way.

Joan Miro said: “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.” Ultimately, this issue is an ode to the joy and happiness of life with all its gradations of symbolism and meaningful implications. Color is more than just fashion. It is a statement for an entire era!

Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Release: October 2021
Volume: 288 pages
Format: 16 × 24 × 2 cm
Language: English
Printing: 5 color offset printing, Stober
Cardboard Cover: Algro Design®, 330 g/sm by Inapa
Paper: galaxi®keramik, 130 g/sm, Pop’Set lime tonic, citrus yellow, sky blue, sunshine yellow 120 g/sm by Inapa
Bookbinding: Swiss brochure, thread stitching
ISSN: 1867-6510

Film Festival Cologne—Die Macht der Bilder

“FFCGN—FAST FORWARD” is what moves everyone, a digital magazine for moving images and pop culture. And that’s not all: This moving content was kept moving and transferred into a printed form! Ready is the first print edition of “FFCGN–FAST FORWARD.”

Connections are important. The origin of the new idea is the “FILM FESTIVAL COLOGNE.” 30 years of experience with moving images. 30 years of exchange with the community. Of course, the “FILM FESTIVAL COLOGNE” is an integral part of the digital as well as the print magazine. Here as well as there you can find information about the program of the festival weeks, from which a lot of inspiration can be drawn in the future. But “FFCGN–FAST FORWARD” has more to offer than “just” the festival. For example, this magazine “Film Festival Cologne—Die Macht der Bilder” as part of the content platform that unites everything.

What touches us in everyday life? Social media is exploding. Memes, GIFs, reels, listicles. A poll or a quiz on Instagram. The world of images and signs has taken off violently due to such formats. “FFCGN–FAST FORWARD” is meant to pick up the momentum instead of merely being carried away by images. Where the surfaces seem most appealing, the magazine “Film Festival Cologne—Die Macht der Bilder” goes into the depths. First of all, this means holding up a mirror to our own fascination.

WOCHENENDER – BRANDENBURG SÜDWESTEN

Potsdam, Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg an der Havel, Teltow-Fläming: Brandenburg is wild, lonely and a region of fine arts. All around Potsdam, princes, kings and emperors have created a unique world heritage landscape with numerous castles, mansions and gardens. Because here it has always been a bit greener, bluer and simply more relaxed than in Berlin. Further south nature reigns: sheer endless forests, gentle hills and wide meadows, blooming heathland – and lots and lots of water. That is why the southwest of Brandenburg can also be explored very well from the water. Long story short: Brandenburg is good for the soul.

WOCHENENDER – LIEBLINGSORTE FÜR FAMILIEN IN UND UM HAMBURG

Swinging, sliding and adventures! Hamburg is nothing less than a family paradise: there are playgrounds, water, animals everywhere – and lots of places to discover, romp and being creative for children of all ages. The WOCHENENDER with favorite places for families inspires parents and children to discover Hamburg and the surrounding area together. In any weather. Inside and outside. In the middle of the city and beyond the city limits. Plus: The best playgrounds, boat and canoe rentals, cultural spots for children, parks and fields for picking fruit.

WOCHENENDER – BRANDENBURG NORDOSTEN

Uckermark, Barnim, Märkisch-Oderland: Brandenburg was underestimated for a long time. Above all, the wild, wide Uckermark and the neighboring districts northeast of Berlin have everything you need for a small escape from the city: primeval forests, tranquil villages and so many lakes, rivers and streams that you get confused when counting them. Nature was able to keep its place here uninhibited. In addition, you often have them all to yourself. What most people look for – and find – here is peace and quiet. For this edition of WOCHENENDER we hiked through pristine landscapes, paddled across the water and found new favorite places.

WOCHENENDER – HOFLÄDEN UND MANUFAKTUREN UM HAMBURG

What does happiness taste like? Like warm bread, fresh from the oven? Like a juicy apple straight from the tree? Or a tasty cheese from a sheep that you can watch while grazing in the pasture? In this edition of WOCHENENDER about farm shops and manufactories we celebrate pleasure. Which we can find on farms, in farm shops and self-harvest gardens, but also in studios and workshops.

Everywhere we have met people who care about nature, animals and materials, and who work hard every day to make the world a little more beautiful and sustainable. And if you enjoy seeing things grow and emerge, you don’t have to go far. Sometimes the little big happiness is really close.

WOCHENENDER – ST. PETER-ORDING & EIDERSTEDT

For centuries, sand was a reason to leave St. Peter-Ording’s. Today it is a reason to come by. A wide beach, exposed unprotected to wind and tides, criss-crossed by tideways, everything about it rough and stormy and magnificent. In short: St. Peter-Ording is a classic.
It is even more astonishing that the Eiderstedt peninsula, which lies in front of the famous sandbank, has remained almost an insider tip to this day. The wide and open area between Friedrichstadt and St. Peter-Ording is something like the epitome of the German North Sea coast.

WOCHENENDER – DIE ELBE

From Cuxhaven to Wittenberge: Originating in the Czech Giant Mountains, the river Elbe enters the northern German lowlands from the Dresden Elbe valley widening. In the north it takes its way past picturesque towns, awakens the port of Hamburg to roaring life, until it finally flows into the North Sea near Cuxhaven. The Elbe, the white river, as it was once called, is sometimes narrow and gentle, sometimes wide and wild, and it almost always flows through Germany in its natural form.

This edition of WOCHENENDER explores places to the left and right of the river Elbe between Cuxhaven and Wittenberge. Many of them have not yet been discovered.