Tag: Culture
Writer Khaled Hosseini on Afghanistan: “Heartbreaking” culture
Khaled Hosseini’s novel “The Kite Runner” looked back on the first Taliban era in Afghanistan. How does the writer see the renewed seizure of power? A conversation about the pictures…
Armin Laschet wants “digital poets and thinkers” – culture
Armin Laschet now also wants to prove in the final sprint that rattling is part of the craft of a good campaigner. The ailing Union chancellor candidate posted on social…
Pankaj Mishra’s “Kind Fanatics” essay collection. Review – culture
The Indo-British essayist Pankaj Mishra has been dissecting the colonial arrogance of the West for twenty years. Has anything changed since then? About freedom, deception and the difficult endeavor of…
Dance: Choreographer Kyle Abraham makes Hamburg culture happy
Pittsburgh is already prominently featured on the world map of art. Mr. Pop Art aka Andy Warhol was born here, as was Gene Kelly, who made the MGM musicals steppe.…
Two mopeds, no spare parts: The art of Sung Tieu in Leipzig – culture
A strange little house altar can currently be viewed on the ground floor of the Leipzig Gallery for Contemporary Art. The Berlin artist Sung Tieu installed it on the occasion…
Trump Opera in Hamburg – Culture
Donald Trump, one of the most dangerous American demagogues, stepped down from the political stage at the beginning of the year. But also a president who offered himself as an…
Shortage of paper at German publishers – culture
The fourth quarter is approaching. In the book industry, it decides how the annual balance sheet turns out. It is the quarter of the Frankfurt Book Fair in whatever form…
Facebook’s “Widely Viewed Content Report”: Is it all just harmless junk? – Culture
You can’t even imagine how big Facebook is now. The network now has almost three billion users worldwide and more than half of them – this is almost unimaginable –…
Conductor John Eliot Gardiner at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
When Max Reinhardt, the co-founder of the Salzburg Festival, filmed “Midsummer Night’s Dream” in 1935, he naturally had Felix Mendelssohn’s music edited for the soundtrack. Since its composition a hundred…
Weizsäcker trial: Fridolin Schley on his book “The Defense” – Culture
In his novel “The Defense”, Fridolin Schley tells of the trial against Ernst von Weizsäcker. A conversation about the hashtag “Nazi background” and the question of whether memories and taboos…