Venice, anniversary of the German Center for Venetian Studies
The Chapter Hall of the Great School of San Rocco yesterday afternoon, Friday 6 May, hosted the celebrations for the first fifty years of activity of the German Center for Venetian Studies. To bring the thanks of the municipal administration for the activity carried out in the city was the councilor of the university. Present were the director and the president of the Center, Marita Liebermann and Albrecht Cordes and the president of the Municipality of Venice Murano Burano. The initiative is part of the “Le città in festa” schedule of town of Venice.
The German Center for Venetian Studies was inaugurated in 1972 as a place of encounter between Italian and German culture and research. Its headquarters are housed in the two floors of Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza in Venice. It is an institution of interdisciplinary studies, which promotes research in the field of culture, art and history of Venice and its territory. It offers scholarships to young people with research projects relating to the city or territories once under Venetian administration. It also organizes international conferences, conferences, concerts and once a year promotes a week of interdisciplinary studies. In its library there are about 14,000 titles on Venetian themes.
The celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary they saw the introductory greetings by Franco Posocco, Guardian Grande of the San Rocco School. Claudia Roth, Deputy Minister for Culture and Media of the German Federal Government, also sent her message via video. Also present were Caterina Carpinato, Vice Rector of Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice, Paola Navarro Dina, Vice President of the Jewish Community of Venice and Frank Suder, President of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the Promotion of Science.
To accompany the afternoon, the exhibition ofCa ‘Foscari Orchestra, composed by Barbara Luisi, on violin, Emma Colombi on flute and Vincenzo Piani on harpsichord and conductor. The musicians proposed pieces from the Brandenburg concert n. 5 in Bach’s D major. To close the celebrations one lectio magistralis by Professor Wolfgang Welsch, philosopher of the University of Jena.