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January 2024 with Anselm Franke                                                                              

                                                                         
Reiko Kanazawa and Yuki Nishino will prepare Japanese New Year foods called Osechi and Ozoni - several dishes of which each carries a specific traditional meaning.

Celebrating recurring events of the year with particular foods is a very important part of Japanese tradition in order to differentiate these events from the everyday, and the carefully crafted dishes will incorporate regional German ingredients and products by mimi.


The origin of the Japanese New Year ceremony is the time of transition between seasons and is believed to bring the world of the living and the dead closer together. Through this dinner event we will have the opportunity to gain awareness of our physical presence as well as the season, both by their corporal and ephemeral natures.

This year we are combining our dinner with a lecture held by Anselm Franke and Dr. Ralph Amann. 
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Anselm Franke has been Head of Visual Arts and Film at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. He previously worked as a curator at at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and as director of the Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerp. Find out more about his impressive work.

Dr. Ralph Amann has studied in a number of fields such as Ethnology, Geography, Theater Studies and Political Science and completed his doctorate with a thesis on contemporary ethics and its foundations.