Tag: Culture
European center of Jewish learning opens in Potsdam – Culture
It all started with two Torah scrolls being placed in a synagogue. Josef Schuster, President of the Central Council of Jews, and Sonja Guentner, President of the “European Union for…
Maxim Biller “The Wrong Greeting”: Review of the new novel – Culture
In his new novel, Maxim Biller portrays an anti-Semite who only wants to be one sometimes – and sums up what the Federal Republic lacks. In Berlin, where everything should…
Art in Afghanistan: Devastated – Culture
The first head of a statue, it is already on the ground. On Sunday the Taliban hoisted their white flag in front of the governor’s seat of the central Afghan…
Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi’s call for help – culture
Sahraa Karimi stands for much that has happened in Afghanistan over the past two decades. She is the first (and only) woman in the country to earn a PhD in…
The author Taqi Akhlaqi from Kabul on the fall of his hometown – culture
The Afghan writer Taqi Akhlaqi lives in Kabul, but by chance he was not in the country when the Taliban took power. A report on the terrible news, feelings of…
September 11th – an initial spark for belief in conspiracies – culture
Of Alex Rühle It was George W. Bush. So not personally. But the neoconservative Rat Pack around Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz staged the whole thing, the explosions inside the…
Kurt Wölfel is dead. An obituary. – Culture
In his contribution to the anthology “How, why and at what end did I become a literary historian?” (1972) reported Kurt Wölfel of the astonished interest with which he, as…
Joe Caroff turns 100: a size of its own – culture
Joseph “Joe” Caroff, who turns 100 this Wednesday and just wants to give himself a watch in his New York apartment (confident: as if it were slowly becoming worthwhile to…
September 11th – how urban planning dealt with the terror problem – culture
Of Till Briegleb What did September 11, 2001 do to the city? At first glance: nothing. The fear of terrorist attacks, which raged through the western world like a shock…
September 11th – how the US distanced itself from its values - culture
Surveillance mania, torture, killings: How the US moved away from its values after September 11th. And never found your way back completely, as a glance at Kabul shows today. Of…