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Typical culture pub of the Hungarian Wende years in Karlsruhe

brings fellow from Hungary called Café debris to Baden

From Reuters correspondent Caroline Wadenka

Source: Reuters German telegram service GmbH

Karlsruhe
(ddp-bwb). A café with no chair, on the other suits in which is a disused Autokarrosserie as a sofa and remember more of the walls ruins, at first glance not a very homey place. In Hungary's capital Budapest, the so-called debris cafes developed in the years after the fall of 1989 on the meeting points of the new art and cultural scene. The Hungarian scholar Gábor Törőcsik has Karlsruher Club "city center" for the European Culture Days (April 17 to May 8) is now modeled after such a Café debris. Young musicians, writers and DJs will occur here and the festival is all about Budapest and Pécs European Capital of Culture. The Robert Bosch Foundation promotes every year twelve young people from Central and Eastern Europe, then work in a German cultural institution. Törőcsik came so to the Culture Office in Karlsruhe. Each student develops during his one-year internship a great project. For the 35-year-old Hungarian, who studied in Budapest after the fall itself and witnessed what turned out was in the rubble cafes, the new alternative culture scene an ideal starting points.

"The wreckage of pubs are now in Budapest very important," he says. In the rooms or interior courtyards of the houses unrenovated operators often have bulky waste collected from the chairs, tables and furniture. "This is now in Budapest has become a style that nothing fits together," says Törőcsik. The creative tension put on many artists. "The atmosphere is very good." Jörg Rieker of the State Theatre, which organizes together with the city of Karlsruhe, the European Culture, is also hoping for a success of Café Budapest. The format with its mix of cabaret, Music and readings were very exciting. Moreover, there are the ruins Café for the first time a meeting place for visitors. "This gives the festival is a place where you can meet." Törőcsik is clear that Kafé Budapest is an experiment for many German, it was unusually determined to go into such a bar. Unlike in the rubble Cafes in Budapest city center, the walls in the club, although fully intact, but the furniture is like in Hungary in patchwork style.

from Wednesday to Sunday there is the Café Budapest readings, concerts, short films and DJ sessions. The name and spelling are deliberately chosen to make the connection between Karlsruhe and Budapest express. Not only young artists from the Budapest scene will occur here. Also German bands from the Karlsruhe environment enter their rendezvous. Firstly, the already-known bands and DJs to get people on the other hand, the exchange between the artists is the focus. DJs and international understanding - the first comic to hear is true, admits Törőcsik. But he is convinced that even this is a cultural scene, for which an exchange was enriching.