Tag: Emperors
Five for Munich: From Emperors and Kings – Munich
Visit “Moosach was real, Munich just a rumor,” writes Feridun Zaimoglu in his text “Not there”, in which he recalls his youth for a Monacensia blog project. Zaimoglu, born in…
Zero Covid policy: Emperors without clothes: Why the protests could be so dangerous for Xi Jinping
So far, only a few thousand people are protesting in the cities against the Chinese government’s zero-Covid policy. But Xi Jinping’s government is taking draconian action against it – also…
Video: Brazilian National Day: The Emperor’s Heart Returns
200 years ago, on September 7th, a Portuguese ruler declared Brazil’s independence and thus created an empire that was to exist for just under seven decades. Pedro I ultimately died…
Dilek Zaptçıoğlu-Gottschlich: “The Emperor’s Treasure Hunters” – Culture
In another war, in another time, the German excavator Theodor Wiegand came to Odessa. The archaeologist came from Istanbul, the Ottoman Empire had just surrendered, but the Germans, allied with…
HC Andersen House in Odense: The Emperor’s New Walls – Culture
A park in the middle of the crouched houses of the old city center, not big. Pavilions made of wood and glass that rise gently from the earth. Here a…