Tag: Culture
Locarno honors director John Landis with a leopard culture
It’s well after midnight when the magic of comedy legend John Landis unfolds. John Blutarsky (John Belushi) is piling half the offerings from the campus cafeteria on his tray, sucking…
Social media: stolenstories.com delivers fake pictures of luxury – culture
With the opening of society, the images on social platforms have also changed. The sourdough loaf in the Römertopf is forgotten, you see friends again, feasts, abundance. Users quickly found…
Conference Berlin questions – culture
It was obviously not the suggestion that Michael Müller wanted to hear. After Harvard professor Charlotte Malterre-Barthes had finished explaining why we need an immediate construction moratorium for the environment,…
Return as revenge: comeback of Louis CK – culture
It’s hard to imagine that this bitter-looking man on the stage of the packed Hulu Theater in New York’s Madison Square Garden was once one of the funniest people on…
Threepenny Opera in Berlin: Toothless, conservative, lots of tinsel – culture
A whole stage curtain made of tinsel. Is it Christmas already today? With the Berliner Ensemble already after finally, after long, corona-related difficult rehearsal phases, with a half year delay,…
Battle for Kabul: On the History of Military Retreat – Culture
Of Moritz Baumstieger Of course it will now be dug up again. Shown, printed, tweeted – because this picture seems to be the proof: History repeats itself after all. In…
Patricia Kopatchinskaja at the Salzburg Festival: Wild Violinist – Culture
As the chief conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis, Patricia Kopatchinskaja asked at a panel discussion in Stuttgart 2020 whether she would rather play in the sunlight of…
Escalation in the fitted kitchen: “Miss Julie” in the Deutsches Theater – Kultur
If Timofej Kulyabin really is “one of the most exciting directors in Russia right now,” as the Deutsches Theater Berlin reports, one may have to worry about Russian theater. In…
HC Andersen House in Odense: The Emperor’s New Walls – Culture
A park in the middle of the crouched houses of the old city center, not big. Pavilions made of wood and glass that rise gently from the earth. Here a…
Bite into someone else’s gold medal: a sexism debate in Japan – culture
Historians cannot say exactly when the Olympic champions started biting into their medals. Not in antiquity, anyway. Because with the Greeks, who held the original version of the Games for…