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| free of charge |
| No language skills required |
| Foyer |
| Belongs to: Blown Away: The Palace of the Republic, Goodbye, Palace Of The Republic |
On the last weekend of the exhibition Blown Away: The Palace of the Republic, DJ Yuriy Gurzhy invites you on a musical journey through history. He will be playing songs from his unique collection that were played in the Palace of the Republic and shaped the cultural heritage of entire generations from the GDR. Several sets throughout the day will evoke memories and bring the atmosphere of its iconic predecessor building to life in the foyer of the Humboldt Forum.
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Born in Ukraine, he came to Berlin from Kharkiv at the age of 20. He is a musician, DJ, producer and author.
Together with the writer Wladimir Kaminer, he initiated the legendary Russendisko party series in 1999 and released compilations such as Russendisko Hits and Ukraine Do America. In 2006, he produced the sampler Shtetl Superstars with the British musician Lemez Lovas (Oi Va Voi), which was dedicated to contemporary Jewish sounds from all over the world. Yuriy Gurzhy is also the singer and guitarist of the Emigrantski Raggamuffin collective RotFront, with whom he has recorded three albums and toured the world.
In 2016-17 he curated the Born In UA party series with Ukrainian music and released the compilation Borsh Division – Future Sound Of Ukraine (Trikont).
At Studio R // Gorki Theater Berlin, he founded The Disorientalists with Daniel Kahn and Marina Frenk, a trio that tells the life of the mysterious Jewish-Azerbaijani German-language writer Essad Bey in a musical-theatrical performance. The album Who Was Essad Bey? was released in 2018.
During the pandemic, Yuriy regularly streamed DJ sets from Berlin and released the CD Bleib zu Hause, Mama! with Wladimir Kaminer and their band Kaminer & die Antikörpers. In their pandemic diary, Kaminer and Gurzhy process their experiences during the coronavirus period with irony and humor.
Yuriy Gurzhy has recorded his last four albums in Ukraine. In 2020, he released The New Donbass Symphony, a song cycle that was created in the cities of the Ukrainian Donbass with students living there. This was followed in 2021 by Fokstroty, ten songs based on texts by Ukrainian authors from the time of the executed Renaissance, which Gurzhy set to music together with the renowned Ukrainian author Serhij Zhadan. SkovoroDance (2023), a reggae homage to the father of Ukrainian philosophy, Hryhoriy Skovoroda, was also created in collaboration with Zhadan. Semafory, their third album together, will be released on December 25, 2024.
In January 2022, Gurzhy’s first book Richard Wagner und die Klezmerband – Auf der Suche nach dem neuen jüdischen Sound in Deutschland was published. Between February 2022 and April 2024, Gurzhy wrote the Ukrainian War Diary for the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel.