Tag: Culture
Uri Jitzchak Katz: “Out of nowhere the flood” – a novel about everything. – Culture
There are moments in literature, when you read the modernist novels of James Joyce, Mikhail Bulgakov or Witold Gombrowicz, when you think: Something so bold and absurd and phenomenal would…
Katharina Wagner, a stroke of luck for Bayreuth – culture
The festival director, whose contract has just been extended, loves risk and new things – just like her great-grandfather. A third of the Bayreuth Richard Wagner Festival is female, at…
“This is the police speaking”: documentary theater at the Ruhr Festival Recklinghausen – Culture
At the end everyone is in civilian clothes. People, not civil servants or functionaries. People who are allowed to use violence at work and have to endure a lot of…
With new blood (and as much energy as ever), Kassav’ returns to the stage to celebrate his heritage
“Sé’w nou enmé ”, in Creole. “It’s you we love”, in French. It’s the name of an old Kassav’ song and the West Indian group’s current tour, in tribute to…
Munich: Puccini’s “Tosca” as a new production at the State Opera – Munich
Puccini’s “Tosca,” says Kornél Mundruczó, is one of the few operas that make you love opera. So the opera itself is not just due to Cavaradossi’s tenor aria “E lucevan…
Salman Rushdie presents “Knife”, his book about the assassination attempt on him, in Berlin. – Culture
When Salman Rushdie steps onto the stage of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, he is greeted with thunderous applause and you can feel how much he is enjoying it. In…
Basic Law: An evergreen that is 75 years old – Economy
A book that is so exciting that you read every line on every page and can’t put it down until the very end? It means simply in English Page turner.…
Billie Eilish’s new album “Hit Me Hard and Soft” – Culture
The defense of a free and objective press first files a motion for bias against the author of this text and the same author then stares at the defense somewhat…
75 years of the Federal Republic: criticism and reason
It took some time for the new state to get rid of the thinkers and thoughts of the Nazi era – then the intellectual heraldic animals of the Bonn Republic…
“Megalopolis” by Francis Ford Coppola in Cannes: Stoned in the trailer – Culture
Francis Ford Coppola waited 40 years and sold his wineries so he could film his dream project. Then he sat stoned in the trailer – and is now being accused…