Tag: Culture
Matthias Jügler on meeting a former Stasi IM – Culture
I recently received an email in response to my novel “The Forsaken”. There had been angry news before. My novel, which deals with the aftermath of the SED dictatorship in…
What the current Rheingold study reveals about the federal election – culture
Every four years a patient comes to Stephan Grünewald who is strangely dressed and often opaque, but who has interesting things to say. This patient is called Germany, although this…
Women in Afghanistan: Historic Splatter Moment
After 9/11 women in Afghanistan became judges, governors and IT experts. And now? . Source link
Ruhrtriennale – kitsch and grief at the opening – culture
If there is one challenge in staging Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Downfall of the House of Usher”, it is the level of horror that remains unchanged. Even when the nameless…
Thomas Arzts novel “Die Gegenstimme”. Review. – Culture
On the evening of April 10, 1938, a lot will have happened in the Upper Austrian village below the Hochkogel. It is election Sunday. Large flags everywhere, mass in the…
A portrait of Marlee Matlin: Sign language in Hollywood culture
Marlee Matlin scans her counterpart on the computer screen with an alert, curious gaze, as if she were looking for an important clue on the other side of the video…
Morton Feldman’s Beckett opera “Neither” at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
Think of it as a very entertaining get-together. The opera in Rome gave the impetus, they wanted an opera by Morton Feldman, the libretto was to be provided by Samuel…
Martin Kusej’s “Maria Stuart” at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
One thing has to be left to Martin Kušej’s “Maria Stuart” production: it doesn’t even pretend that it wants to tell Schiller’s “Tragedy in Five Acts” from the inside out…
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…