www.FIFAworldcup.com/globus

The „Football Globe – 2006 FIFA World Cup™ ” is the travelling ambassador for the German Government’s Artistic and Cultural Programme for the 2006 FIFA World Cup™. The mobile pavilion will spend three years touring the twelve World Cup cities, bringing its visitors emotionally closer to football culture in an amusing way.

During the day, the „Football Globe – 2006 FIFA World Cup™” is an accessible, interactive exhibition space. In the base of the globe, cult objects from all aspects of the game are on exhibit: Oliver Kahn’s goalie gloves, Zinédine Zidane’s autographed football shoe, the 1954 World Cup ball. The pieces will vary from city to city. On several nights a week, the inside of the „Football Globe – 2006 FIFA World Cup™” will be transformed into a stage. In almost 200 events up until now, guests from Germany as well as other countries – football stars, fans, politicians, poets, actors, scientists and intellectuals – have presented spectators new aspects of what football and culture have in common.

More than a half a million spectators have visited the „Football Globe – 2006 FIFA World Cup™.”

Following the huge success of the national „Football Globe – 2006 FIFA World Cup™,” a smaller, modified version of the globe will embark on a trip around the world: „Football Globe Germany – 2006 FIFA World Cup™.”

As a landmark, communicative meeting place and as playground, the globe will spread enthusiasm for the phenomenon of football and get people excited about the up-coming mega-event. „The Football Globe Germany – 2006 FIFA World Cup™ is at the same time an urban meeting place as well as light object and media focal point, inviting viewers to interact and communicate with one another. Visitors can send multi-media messages from around the globe, which will be collected in a book and presented on the webpage. At the base of the globe, there will be information and amusement stands catering to a wide range of ages and interests.

The „Football Globe Germany – 2006 FIFA World Cup™” will be touring at least four cities. Tokyo, Madrid, Milan, London or Paris are under discussion; alternatives are Zurich or Vienna.

For tour dates: www.goethe.de/2006

In keeping with the true sense of the motto “A time to make friends™” “Planet Football” shows that football is a global obsession knowing no national or cultural border. Along with the tangible joy of the game itself, images by such well known photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Abbas, Martin Parr, Herbert List and many others take us on a trip into the numerous subjects associated with football.

The worldwide tour of the exhibition will promote the up-coming mega-event in Germany. The tour will be hosted by 144 Goethe Institutes and their partners in 80 countries. The motto of the invitation to visit the FIFA World Cup 2006™ is presented visually. Football is portrayed as a unifying constant, in its original, familiar form as played in the backyards and on the fields, from Argentina to Siberia.

www.FIFAworldcup.com/artposter

The edition is a joint project of FIFA, the National DFB Culture Foundation 2006 gGmbH, the 2006 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee Germany™ and the Berlin-based art marketing agency Brands United.

Internationally renowned artists from the six football confederations have contributed designs for the “Official Art Poster 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™.” Fourteen works have been selected from among the entries and are now available as high-quality offset colour lithographs in a standard edition or in a limited signed edition. A new kind of World Cup posters culminating a series well worth collecting.

Participating artists: Tim Ayres (GB), Tobias Rehberger (Ger), Rosemarie Trockel (Ger), Norbert Bisky (Ger), Michael-Craig Martin (GB), Luo Brothers (China), Hisashi Tenmyoya (Japan), Owusu-Ankomah (GH), Toyin Loye (Nigeria), Beatriz Milhazes (BR), Jess Macneil (Aus), Sarah Morris (USA), Andreas Gursky (Ger), Markus Lüpertz (Ger)

Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, 20.10.2005 – 08.01.2006

RUNDLEDERWELTEN is an exhibition that illustrates, from many angles, how unexpectedly, astutely, meticulously, and above all, disarmingly, artists approach a subject that is so embedded in everyday life such as football – through their artistic method they spin a sensual and reflective thread traversing our reality, our day-to-day lives, our existence. In its theoretical, aesthetic and descriptive freedoms, art is much more advanced than football, while football has its immediacy, power and clarity. Together they make for an alluring mixture.

Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig/Sportmuseum Leipzig, 03.03. – 30.07.2006

No football without a referee! The historical and cultural exhibition “Lord of the Rules: The Football Referee” focuses for the first time ever on the activities of national and international referees and their teams. Beginning with the historical roots of the role of the referee in antiquity, the exhibition presents milestones in football history, moving on to futuristic visions such as the chip-ball or the totally technologically monitored match.

The “code de football” is given centre-stage as a multi-media, interactive presentation. Founded on the 17 (plus 2) rules of the game, the visitor is made more aware of the activities of the referee.

German Sport and Olympia Museum Cologne,

04.03. – 05.06.2006

As early as the 1950ss, there were “ambassadors” of German sport – amongst them football personalities – and its ideals, promoting the image of Germany abroad. From 1960 on, German sporting institutions have initiated numerous development projects around the globe.

The exhibition – structured according to various themes – presents some remarkable projects and recounts numerous anecdotes surrounding German football and its representatives abroad, stories about Bert Trautmann, Rudi Gutendorf and Harald Ganns, to name but a few.

Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg,

30.04. – 26.11.2006

How is it that football has developed into such a sporting success and how can we explain the immense fascination with the sport? The exhibition team from “The Fascination of Football” has searched the world for answers and transformed around 100 m² of Hamburg’s magnificent Museum für Völkerkunde into a stadium.

On the lawns in front of the museum, Japanese roof-top football fields invite a kick-round. Past wooden ticket offices and old match announcements, one enters the marble foyer. The cloakrooms have been remodelled as betting offices and cash desks, while in the middle of the hall there’s a centre circle complete with football. African table football and a dynamometer to measure the power of your shot are an open invitation to linger, an English football pub a summons to stay. The TV is on. The museum is barely recognisable.

Münchner Stadtmuseum,

19.05. – 03.09.2006

The exhibition presents mainstream and alternative venues of the phenomenon of football from an ethnological perspective. It shows how differently this seemingly uniform game is interpreted around the world. One-of-a-kind objects from around the world – some of which are foreign and unknown while others are all too familiar – are displayed in a new, often astounding light: from Japanese football mangas and fan paraphernalia from many countries, to the Neapolitan Maradona cult and Latin American fetish, from the invocation of the “football gods,” to a football player’s coffin in the form of a football boot from West Africa. Football-related photos from all corners of the Earth, graffiti, video installations and interactive presentations convey a lively impression of the cultural and global diversity of football.

Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig,

10.06.2006 – 13.08.2006

Despite the international trading of players and coaches working abroad, the differing national games cultures prevail or have sprung up anew. The Museum der bildenden Künste is planning an exhibition which incorporates artistic contributions concerning football from all the countries with teams participating in the World Cup in Germany: 32 countries, 32 different attitudes. The diversity of the individual perspectives of artists from the six “football continents” of Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, North, Central and South America will offer a panorama that is revealing and rich in associations. The spectrum of the art forms ranges from sculpture, painting, graphics arts and photography to video, film and installation art.

Starting early summer 2006

For the masses expected for the World Cup, even those “chance” visitors to the grounds, a new information system will offer detailed explanations about the history and purpose of the site and the buildings and thus simultaneously juxtapose historical understanding with legends.

As part of the “Rundlederwelten” exhibit, the visual artist Volker März is sending dancers, musicians and actors on a performance journey with “UNOS UNITED.” The basis for the performances which aim to surprise the audience with seemingly spontaneous shows in public spaces, is made up of action songs taken from a songbook which gets larger and larger with each passing day, chock full of pieces by musicians, filmmakers, authors, choreographers and scientists from a wide range of disciplines.

Besides the passion and pleasure of the game, UNOS UNITED dedicates itself in minimalist seriousness to uncovering the seldom posed questions about the shady side of football: the competition strategies, opportunism, selection process and repression, all of which are absurdly symbolised in eleven larger-than-life moving eraser figure players. The humorously and vividly portrayed subtext here is just as prevalent in a match context as in totalitarian systems and nationalistic structures. It is a penalty area UNOS UNITED will be trying to performatively claim as its own.

25.01.2006 World Premiere at Kampnagel Hamburg

26.01.2006 – 05.02.2006 Kampnagel Hamburg (except 30. und 31.01.2006)

09.02.2006 – 12.02.2006 Schauspielhaus Cologne

Followed by an international tour

Deborah Colker’s newest work is dedicated to the fascinating world of football, transporting it to the stage with fiery scenes and acrobatic movements. The stage becomes a stadium and the audience becomes sport fans when the legendary match between Germany and Brazil is relived on the dance stage and German and Brazilian dancers go head to head in a playful, masterful match.

Deborah Colker has conquered stages from Rio de Janeiro to London, from Washington to Singapore. Her Brazilian temperament finds an outlet in fast-paced, breathtaking choreographies; her works are characterised by their athletic, artistic virtuosity. For all of these reasons, “Maracanã” is highly entertaining and will win over a football audience’s attention for dance and theatregoers will get fired up about football.

Without a doubt, Alain Platel is one of the most important and most innovative choreographers and directors of our time: Similar as with his last production, Platel starts his choreographic research mission from two different points: in “Wolf,” it was Mozart’s music and the stories and biographies of his dancers. In his newest piece, it’s Monteverdi’s “Vespro della Beate Vergine,” converging with the music of the Sinti and Roma, and the educational films of Dr. Arthur Van Gehuchten, who in 1905 began filming his psychiatric patients.

A theatre piece about football and careers, about the rise and fall of a Brazilian football star, a passionate plea for football.

Fernandez Maria Olivares, called Garuma, is a homeless child from the slums of Brazil. The coach Barucca recognises his incredible talent and takes him out of the slums into affluent, western society. Garuma makes it to internationally acclaimed football fame. He’s an artist with a ball, a demigod on the field; however, he gets caught up in a ruthless business as well. Garuma leads a whirlwind life. No one can catch him – until he stumbles and falls.

Under Adriana Altaras’s direction, a play emerges filled with samba, acrobatics and Brazilian joie de vivre.

09.03.2006 Premiere at the arena Berlin

10.03.2006 – 18.03.2006 arena Berlin (12., 13., and 15.03.2006 excluded)

22.03.2006 – 26.03.2006 Theaterhaus Stuttgart

17.04.2006 Volkstheater Rostock

05.05.2006 Potsdam, Schinkelhalle

07.05.2006 Hannover-Garbsen, Rudolf-Harbig-Halle

13.05.2006 Siegen, Laimbachstadion, Open Air

17.05.2006 – 25.05.2006 Dortmund, Westfalenstadion, Open Air

01.06.2006 – 03.06.2006 Bremen, TV Rot-Weiß, Open Air

24.03.2006 World Premiere in Frankfurt am Main,

Bockenheimer Depot

Further performances to be announced

In his new production, William Forsythe turns the Bockenheimer Depot into a football/dance arena. Huge treadmills will be set up in the main hall where two international teams of dancers will be competing against one another in various dance styles (HipHop, break dance, street dance …). Their objective is to present a performance on moving surfaces using their own patterns of movement. While DJs play live music, the treadmills will be set in motion and the match begins.

For twenty years, William Forsythe was the artistic director of the “Frankfurt Ballet,” where he revolutionised classical dance, perfecting it to become a contemporary form of art and artistic expression.

Kesselhaus der KulturBrauerei, Berlin,

07.04.2006 Premiere

Seventeen so-called “mentally handicapped” actors and musicians will be performing as well as five professional musicians, a youth group on percussion rounded off by RambaZamba’s directing and production team, under the direction of Gisela Höhne. There will also be wonderfully sensuous costumes, brash masks, an enchanting stage design and engaging music.

29.04.2006 World Premiere at Dusseldorf’s Schauspielhaus

Further performances to be announced

In honour of the 2006 World Cup, Dusseldorf’s Schauspielhaus has asked famous German-language authors to write short scenes about the political and social climate of our country, about the madness of football and about their image of Germany, producing a snap-shot of our times, capturing the mood of the “Nation of Thinkers and Poets.” The short scenes will be performed by the actors of the Dusseldorf ensemble; a live band will accompany the production, adding (football) songs as commentary.

31.05.2006 World Premiere in Berlin Bebelplatz, beside the Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Further performances to be announced

Robert Wilson’s vision is the creation of a “Metropolis of the 21st Century.” Machines take on the roles of the actors. This could be robots, trucks, gigantic inflatable objects, cranes, but video projects as well, animations or fireworks. Today’s deformed consumer society, void of history, void of consciousness, will be aesthetically portrayed through the futuristic world of Japanese mangas and comics – blueprints of a carefree, invulnerable, hedonistic society that, ultimately, knows no ideals, just mannerisms.

26.06.2006 Opening Ceremony at the Volkstheater in Munich

26.06.2006 – 07.07.2006 Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Göttingen, Halle, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Nuremberg as well as the regions Rhine-Neckar and the Ruhr Basin.

08.07.2006 Closing Ceremony at the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin

Dexterity, the art of improvisation and team spirit is the common thread for both football and theatre sport. For the first time, the Theatre Sport World Cup and the Football World Cup will be held at the same time. Two teams will face off and improvise scenes and songs, with no script or previous discussion, without stage directions. The cues will come straight from the audience, who will then decide which team will go home the victors. A moderator will host the event, a musician will accompany the actors and a referee will make sure none of the rules are broken.

From June 26 until July 7, 2006, parallel to the 2006 World Cup, 15 theatre sport national teams from all five parts of the world will square off against each other and compete alongside host country Germany’s own team in the art of improvisation.

Justus Frantz and the Philharmonia of the Nations

Alte Oper Frankfurt/Main,
19.06.2005

The gala concert in Frankfurt’s Alte Oper made “Let’s make music as friends” as well as the motto of the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ “A time to make friends™” into musical reality. It all began with a specially composed anthem by Winfried Roch for the internationally famous brass sextet Ensemble Classique: Fanfare of the Nations. Then, following the overture by Gioacchino Rossini’s Die diebische Elster, the young German-Japanese Danjulo Ishizaka, an exceptional cellist, played the famous Concert for Violoncello and Orchestra, b minor, op. 104, by Antonín Dvorak. To the motto of “The last night of the Proms” several pieces by various composers from a variety of continents were then performed. As a sign of allegiance between music and football, the complete ensemble appeared in the second-half wearing the tricots of the football nations instead of their usual suits.

“At the end, Schily, Federal Minister for the Interior, jumped up onto the stage and conducted the Radetzky March – to the delight of 2000 spectators,” commented the German newspaper, Bild, on June 20, 2005. Frankfurt’s Rundschau lauded: “The Alte Oper has probably never before seen the likes of that. But then, no World Cup has ever been kicked off with such an overwhelming gala event before.” (…) “Musically, the spectacular interpretation (…) was not easy to top.” (June 21, 2005).

Riedenburg, 28.04.2006

Blechschaden, (English: brass damage), the cult-ensemble of musicians from the Munich Philharmonic, will be performing in a “football concert”; its focus will be on the world premiere of the piece “Match for Eleven Players – Football World Cup 2006 – commentator: Bob Ross.” With this event, the Musikvereinigung Kelheim is bringing the theme of football in a musical way to Riedenburg in Altmühltal, situated between the sport venues of Munich and Nuremberg. Roger Jannotta’s composition portrays a footballer’s tension during a match: with dialogue between the instruments, comparable to the combined moves of football players, to possible fouls and subsequent penalty kicks, and of course alluding to the desired victory of Germany’s own national team.

11.09.2005 World Premiere at the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum

18.09.2005 Jahrhunderthalle Bochum

09.07.2006 appears at the Komische Oper Berlin

(two performances on the day of the final match)

This first football oratory in musical history. The composer Moritz Eggert and the librettist Michael Klaus are taking a closer look at football by using the form of an Italian oratory. Their material is based on childhood memories, battle cries, gamblers’ careers, the famous Trappatoni Monologue, whistle blowing fugues, quotes – some of them delightfully poetic – made by players and trainers that have since been etched into eternity, medical diagnoses of infamous injuries caused by the ball; whether they happened while on a bend, on the bench, on the pitch or at the microphone. One basic theory binds them all together –for teachers of the sport, goal scorers or footballers’ wives: the round object must end up in the square one!

World Premiere Radio Bermen, summer 2006 in co-production with NDR, hr and RBB

“You’ll Never Walk Alone – European Stadium Sounds”: a cantata of original sounds “produced” by an international soccer crowd and recorded in various European stadiums: in England, Spain, France, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. The original sounds of the crowds were responsible for the acoustic material: cut, mixed and composed within musical and artistic parameters, an international Soccer-Mega-Song has been created, a radio-play cantata that can be understood the world over as a result of its multi-voiced form. Folk art and folklore, sung be several thousand singers across Europe.

Berlin, 2. 7. 2006

On the Sunday before the final, July 2, 2006, when no other matches are taking place, the people of Berlin and their guests are invited to attend an open air concert free-of-charge, where the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher, will be presenting the best of classical orchestra music. Brazilian music will be played as well as German, alongside works from France, Japan or Africa – the last sixteen nations playing on the pitch will also be taking part here in a championship of music. A spectacular conclusion of the Federal Government’s Artistic and Cultural Programme for the 2006 FIFA World Cup™.

06.06.2006, Munich

The Bavarian capital is home to three famous top orchestras, each with its own star conductor:

• Die Münchner Philharmoniker conducted by the senior conductor and musical director Christian Thielemann

• Das Bayerische Staatsorchester conducted by the senior conductor and musical director Zubin Mehta

• Das Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks conducted by the senior conductor Mariss Jansons.

On the occasion of the FIFA congress, these three orchestras will be brought together for the first time to create a unique and great symphonic event. The 350 members of these orchestras, alongside international soloists, will be playing open air, under the roof of Munich’s Olympic Stadium, and accompanied by video sequences and lighting effects, the audience will be sent on a symphonic journey through sound, space and light. Pieces by the composers Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner and Carl Orff will transform this evening into a fantastic synthesis of the arts.

Media Partnerships

In honour of the Football World Cup, ARTE, the Franco-German TV channel for culture, and the DFB Kulturstiftung will be forging very a special partnership: ARTE will be the German government’s official TV cultural network for the 2006 FIFA World Cup™.

ARTE will be anticipating the World Cup next year by highlighting football from many cultural angles. Evening programmes focussing on football as well as documentary and feature films will offer a kaleidoscope of vivid images showcasing several – first-time – aspects surrounding the topic of football. For example, ARTE will be showing the films sponsored by the DFB Kulturstiftung “The Art of Football. From A to Z,” “Football and Magic in Africa” and “SHOOT GOALS! SHOOT MOVIES!”

Location:

Stuttgart City Hall, in conjunction with the exhibit “Planet Football”

15.09.2005

This cinematic portrait documents the way of life of Honduran girls and the significance of football as a viable possibility for overcoming existing class differences via athletics. The young women portrayed in the documentary represented a wide array of social backgrounds and came together to participate with their teams when the city of Tegucigalpa created a football league in 2000. The filmmaker Erika Harzer from Berlin directed the film.

Young, talented filmmakers were invited to submit short films on the subject of the “soul of football.” 611 applications from 75 countries were sent in. A jury viewed the overwhelming number of predominately excellent entries many of which originated from countries with a relatively young cinematic infrastructure, for example, Benin, Sri Lanka or Uganda, and selected 45 films from 29 countries