Tag: Cancel Culture
Panel discussion on Cancel Culture in the Literaturhaus München – Munich
Few cultural debates are currently being conducted as emotionally as those about “cancel culture”. The sharp-tongued Austrian philosopher and essayist Konrad Paul Liessmann is very worried: “A furor has gripped…
CSU in Bavaria: More protest than a program party – Bavaria
After the botched state elections in 2018, the CSU vowed never again to strike the tone of the AfD. It sounds softer on migration, but when it comes to the…
Dispute over canceled Berlinale premiere: The girl with the mask
A hitherto little-known “Anti-Racism Taskforce for European Film” has succeeded in stopping the Berlinale premiere of a Norwegian children’s film. The justification is questionable. source site
Weekeness and a coffee shop – Politics
When Carmen Quiroga moved to the small town of Coventry, Connecticut, a few weeks ago, she found herself in the midst of a culture war. She wasn’t interested in politics…
Last season jerks: masturbated with the bus driver, fell off the chair – media
It was clear that “Godwin’s Law” would become relevant in this series, which was always designed for escalation – emotionally, aesthetically. And as for shame. Especially there. “As the length…
France: 50 years of Comic Festival in Agoulême – Culture
from Kathrin Müller-Lance, Angoulême The excitement was already great before the festival in Angoulême had even started. The whole thing had nothing to do with the anniversary, which is the…
Renaming the Bismarck-Room and the Prussian Foundation is not everything – culture
from Joachim Kaeppner When a really clever person like the journalist Alan Posener suddenly writes that Germany “should ask itself what it can learn from Prussia and what Prussia can…
John Cleese makes a show for right-wing populist broadcaster GB News – Medien
Of Alexander Menden When the art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon was declared persona non grata by the Cambridge University Debate Club last November because he had imitated Adolf Hitler’s style of…
May Maassen comment on the Basic Law? – Opinion
comment by Wolfgang Janisch Hans-Georg Maaßen recently had his say again on the YouTube portal “Hello Opinion”. He was allowed to speak on the public service broadcaster, which he persistently…
Debate about children’s books: Ravensburger and “The Young Chief Winnetou” – culture
Of Kathleen Hildebrand If you want to get to the origin of the current argument about racism, cultural appropriation and Winnetou, you have to scroll for about ten minutes. That’s…