Tag: Culture
Ronya Othmann: "Seventyfour": Physically unharmed
Can genocide committed thousands of kilometers away be traumatizing? Ronya Othmann explores the genocide of the Yazidis in “Seventy-Four.” A so-called “important book”. source site
Obituary Maurizio Pollini: The idiosyncratic one – culture
Beethoven, Chopin and anti-Vietnam concerts: Maurizio Pollini not only saw himself as a pianist, but also got involved in political debates. Now the legendary artist has died at the age…
Great Britain: The Windsors and Us
Princess Kate was missing for days. Now it’s clear: she has cancer. Why the previous media spectacle primarily benefited the government. source site
Leipzig Book Fair: Stay curious
The Federal President’s Leipzig speech is also disrupted by pro-Palestinian activists. But in the end they benefit Steinmeier’s concerns – because he deals with them cleverly. source site
“Slow” in the movies: How to have a relationship with an asexual person – Culture
Could it be that couples who have to defend their love against society’s standardized ideas treat each other more considerately and carefully? At least that’s what two films that have…
Leo Baeck Institute opens its archives to writers like Dana von Suffrin – Culture
In order to preserve the memory of the life and intellectual history of the Jews of Central Europe before the Shoah, German-Jewish emigrants founded the Leo Baeck Institute in New…
Security concept of the Leipzig Book Fair – Culture
There will be no entry controls again. Bags will not be searched, and there are also no metal detectors at the Leipzig Book Fair. The fact that local transport is…
Leipzig Book Fair: Prize for “ca. 1972 · Violence · Environment · Identity · Method” – Culture
No one was really happy with the decision at the Book Fair publishing receptions on Thursday evening in Leipzig. Worded carefully. As a rule, discomfort on these occasions is politely…
"Biedermann and the firestarters": Dance of Death of Democracy
Finally a Swiss: Nicolas Stemann and Benjamin von Blomberg are showing Max Frisch’s “Biedermann and the Arsonists” at the Schauspielhaus at the end of their Zurich directorship. source site
On the 80th birthday of the artist Rebecca Horn – Culture
Art is “anarchy” for her, says Rebecca Horn. This is a somewhat surprising confession for an artist whose work seems to contradict all common notions of anarchy. The kinetic installations…