{"id":16,"date":"2019-08-29T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T10:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magazin-festival-of-lights.de\/?p=16"},"modified":"2019-09-12T11:30:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T11:30:43","slug":"europeisforlovers-europas-sterne-leuchten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazin-festival-of-lights.de\/en\/europeisforlovers-europas-sterne-leuchten","title":{"rendered":"#EuropeIsForLovers \u2013 Europe’s Stars shine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Light staging for the election of the European Parliament<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Seven federal ministries, two EU institutions, a lot of love for Europe and the magic of light at the FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018. Long after the end of office hours, the participating federal and EU buildings suddenly came back to life. Under the title \u201cEurope is for Lovers\u201d, creative large-screen projections attracted the attention of passers-by, drew their attention to the election to the European Parliament in 2019 and its great significance for cohesion in Europe. The result was a declaration of love for the European idea with nine stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1st station: Federal Ministry of Defence<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Shell House on Berlin\u2019s Landwehr Canal, a listed building, was built in 1929. Among architecture connoisseurs, it is regarded as one of Berlin\u2019s most beautiful buildings and impresses with its dynamically graded wave form. The Shell-Haus has been the official headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Defence since 2012. The building was illuminated with a mosaic of polygons for the FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018.
The motto on the front side \u201cWe protect what you don\u2019t see\u201d referred to the defence mandate and European security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Federal Ministry of Defence at the FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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2nd station: Federal Ministry of Finance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The monumental and historic building complex in Wilhelmstra\u00dfe is the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Finance. The neoclassical style building was originally built as a Prussian War Ministry and greatly enlarged during the National Socialist era.
Today the Federal Ministry of Finance resides here. In 2018, the Ministry celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Customs Union and the year of the EU citizen dialogues. In keeping with this, citizens could post their wishes for Europe on the Internet at #EUB\u00fcrgerdialog. A selection of the wishes was projected onto the fa\u00e7ade during the FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS in huge speech bubbles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BMF FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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BMF FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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3rd station: Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Mohrenkolonnade, the building of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection at Mohrenstra\u00dfe 36\/37, has a special history, as it was once the seat of Jewish fashion and clothing makers, who made Berlin a world-famous fashion city in the 1920s. In GDR times, the International Press Centre resided here, where G\u00fcnter Schabowski unintentionally initiated the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, when he declared the new travel regulations to be \u201d from now on, immediately\u201d valid. The projections on the colonnades picked up on these two stories, placed them large in the picture and linked them with a commitment to Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Federal Ministry of Justice and Cosumer Protection at the FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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4th station: Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In Berlin-Mitte there are two historic buildings which together form the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy: the former military medical Kaiser Wilhelm Academy and the restored remains of the Invalidenhaus, whose origins date back to the 18th century. The damaged external facades of the buildings were authentically reconstructed after the fall of communism and used as a screen for a declaration of love to Europe during the festival. Circular projections connected the themes of social market economy and people in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BMWi FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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BMWi FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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BMWi FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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5th station: Federal Ministry of Health<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The new building of the Federal Ministry of Health in Friedrichstra\u00dfe is located directly next to the Friedrichstadtpalast. On a large open side wall, the ministry illuminated various health topics such as the digitalisation of the health care system and the important role of health in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BMG FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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BMG FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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6th station: Federal Ministry of Education and Research<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Under the motto \u201cHouse of Nature<\/a>\u201c, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research showed a nature film on the fa\u00e7ade of the New Marstall directly on the banks of the Spree River, illustrating the breathtaking beauty of the Arctic and its threat from climate change. The images drew attention to the Second Arctic Science Ministerial Conference<\/a> in Berlin in October 2018, at which the effects of climate change in the Arctic were debated \u2013 an existential issue for the whole of Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BMBF on the Neuer Marstall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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BMBF on the Neuer Marstall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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7th station: Federal Foreign Office<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The architecture of the Federal Foreign Office, which opens wide to the city, symbolizes what Europe stands for: transparency, openness and simplicity. During the FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS, five picture collages of people and landscapes, colours and forms were combined under the hash day #EuropeUnited to create a lively presentation of Europe\u2019s diversity. The challenge for the lighting artist was to combine not only the front of the building, but also the columns and the atrium behind them in a single composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Federal Foreign Office FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Federal Foreign Office FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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8th station: European House<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Representations of the European Commission and the European Parliament are at home in the European House on Pariser Platz. If you want to find out more about Europe, its institutions and its themes, you can visit the permanent multimedia exhibition \u201cEuropa Experience<\/a>\u201d on the ground floor.
As part of the FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018, the European House drew attention to the 2019 European elections with large projections and striking statements such as \u201cThis time I vote\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s your Europe\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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European House FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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European House FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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9th station: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Europahaus, opened in 1931, was one of the first skyscrapers in Berlin. It became an eye-catcher because of its spectacular neon signs on the facade. A few years ago, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development moved in. The ministry has the task of improving the living conditions of people in newly industrializing and developing countries. The united Europe plays a major role in solving this task. The illumination of the FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2018 on the Europahaus derived a clear message from this: Shaping globalisation fairly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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All pictures by<\/sup> Frank Herrmann<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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