Tag Archives: Landings

Tagore’s Post Office pictures by Winfried Mateyka

Landings ‘Dakghar: Notes Towards Isolation and Recognition’, NGBK Berlin, photo by Winfried Mateyka

Landings ‘Dakghar: Notes Towards Isolation and Recognition’, NGBK Berlin

Foreground: Goshka Macuga ‘When Was Modernism?’, NGBK Berlin

Otolith Group’s ‘A Century Before Us’, NGBK, Berlin

Otolith Group’s A Century Before Us’, NGBK, Berlin

Otolith Group’s ‘A Century Before Us’, NGBK, Berlin

Elzbieta Walter on the translations of Tagore’s Post Office to Polish

Public talk by Elzbieta Walter introduced and chaired by Landings (Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl):

Despite the fact that Tagore never visited Poland, he is no doubt the only Indian writer whose writings have been extensively translated into Polish. The play Dakghar (The Post Office) has been translated into Polish five times by different translators. It was also staged several times. One of the most significant staging was conducted during the Second World War in Poland in Jewish Orphans’ Home in the Warsaw ghetto run by Janusz Korczak. Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (1878/79-1942), a Polish-Jewish educator, physician, children’s author and essayist. He organized a staging of Dakghar with the children of the orphanage just few weeks before several of them and he were deported to the concentration camp of Treblinka.

Elzbieta Walter is a Tagore scholar and literary theorist based in Poland, and an alumnus of Santiniketan.

SRINIKETAN – Craft as an Education of Living

Exhibited at the nGbK in Berlin at ‘Tagore’s Post Office‘ within Landings Installation
29 March – 1 June 2014

video by Kim Schonewille

SRINIKETAN – Craft as an Education of Living from Kim Schonewille on Vimeo.

Dakghar: Notes Towards Isolation and Recognition

[PDF] A booklet by Landings (Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl) for the exhibition Tagore’s Post Office, curated by Grant Watson at NGBK, Berlin (workshop 4).

Page from Dakghar: Notes Towards Isolation and Recognition booklet

Vivian Ziherl talks about Landings contribution to Tagore’s Post Office exhibition at ngbk

Vivian Ziherl talks about Landings (Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl, established in 2013, have been re-surveying modernity through the lens of land histories, and the sedimentary grounds to the colonial struggle)

Vivian Ziherl presents on behalf of Landings, Tagore Centre, London

Elzbieta Walter – public talk

Public talk by Elzbieta Walter introduced and chaired by Landings (Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl)

Despite the fact that Tagore never visited Poland, he is no doubt the only Indian writer whose writings have been extensively translated into Polish. The play Dakghar (The Post Office) has been translated into Polish five times by different translators. It was also staged several times. One of the most significant staging was conducted during the Second World War in Poland in Jewish Orphans’ Home in the Warsaw ghetto run by Janusz Korczak. Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (1878/79-1942), a Polish-Jewish educator, physician, children’s author and essayist. He organized a staging of Dakghar with the children of the orphanage just few weeks before several of them and he were deported to the concentration camp of Treblinka.

Elzbieta Walter is a Tagore scholar and literary theorist based in Poland, and an alumnus of Santiniketan.

Dakghar: Notes Towards Isolation and recognition

[PDF] Dakghar: Notes Towards Isolation and Recognition, by Landings (Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl) a booklet for Tagore’s Post Office exhibition, curated by Grant Watson at NGBK, Berlin (Workshop 4).

Hand drawn map of Bali, as seen in the booklet page 8, courtesy of Rabindra Bhavan, Visva-Bharati.

The Idea of Santiniketan: A Personal Understanding

Read The Idea of Santiniketan: A Personal Understanding, (2007) by Pulak Dutta, shared by Landings (Natasha Ginwala & Vivian Ziherl)

Visva-Bharati Campus, photo courtesy of DAI’s students

Photos from workshop moments in Berlin by Carla Cruz

This is the collection of photos of the various events held for the fourth workshop in Berlin. Friday at NGBK; Saturday at Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmannan’s Studio and again in the NGBK in the evening

Anna Boghiguian’s drawing, NGBK Berlin

Otolith Group mural detail, NGBK Berlin

Otolith Group mural, NGBK Berlin

Elzbieta Walter: Public Talk

Elzbieta Walter

Audience, NGBK

Elzbieta Walter

A German translation of Tagore from 1918, brought by a member of the audience

workshop at Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann’s studio

FRAGMENTING TAGORE: Saturday 12 April

NGBK, Andrea Phillips, Grant Watson and Elke Falat

Anshuman Biswas and Magda Mayas: Parentheses on Truth, Beauty and Humanity; a live event based on the conversations between Einstein and Tagore with took place at Einstein’s house near Berlin in 1930.