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the Munich “Theaterfestival” and launched, together with composer Hans Werner Henze, the
Festival of Contemporary Opera “Muenchener Biennale” in 1986. On the island of Elba (Italy), he created a Botanical Garden, the “Orto dei Semplici Elbano” for the study and conservation of rare and endemic plants of the Tuscan Arcipelago. This garden, founded in 1994 with botanists Gabriella Corsi and Fabio Garbari, is now part of the National Park of the Tuscan Arcipelago. It is situated next to an ancient Franciscan Hermitage, the “Eremo di Santa Caterina” that Berger discovered in 1977 as a ruin, and that has since become a creative meeting place for artists, writers and scientists, initiating various projects of literature, contemporary music, archaeology and botany. As part of his project of photography in the town of Luang Prabang, in Northern Laos, begun in 1993, he founded in 2006 the “Buddhist Archive of Photography” in collaboration with the city's Buddhist monks. At this archive, he directed two Major Research projects of the British Library's “Endangered Archives Programme”, digitizing and preserving 35.000 historical Buddhist photographs which in 2017 have been named for inscription to Unesco's list “Memory of the World”. Also in Luang Prabang, Berger is involved in the creation of a Buddhist School of Applied Arts sustained by the “Buddhist Heritage Project” that he co-founded in 2014 with one of the leading monks of Laos, Abbot Pha Khamchan Virachitta Maha Thela. In the 1980s, he helped to set up
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