A woman, weakened from childbirth, falls asleep while breastfeeding in a hospital bed. Your newborn dies. This case in Italy begs the question: do hospitalized babies really need to be with their mothers 24/7?from Francesca PolistinaDoctors agree that rooming-in has many advantages. It strengthens the mother-child bond, encourages breastfeeding and calms the baby. In German clinics, it has long been everyday practice that newborns no longer lie in the separate baby room, but stay with their mothers around the clock...
Director Amir Reza Koohestani on the protest movement in Iran, his role as an artist and why it is so imperative to listen to women now.Interviewed by Till BrieglebAmir Reza Koohestani is one of Iran's most prominent theater directors. He has also been working very successfully on German stages for many years, for example at the Munich Kammerspiele and the Deutsches Theater Berlin, where in 2020 he presented "Woyzeck Interrupted" after Georg Büchner, an examination of the subject of femicide....
Director Amir Reza Koohestani on the protest movement in Iran, his role as an artist and why it is so imperative to listen to women now.Interviewed by Till BrieglebAmir Reza Koohestani is one of Iran's most prominent theater directors. He has also been working very successfully on German stages for many years, for example at the Munich Kammerspiele and the Deutsches Theater Berlin, where in 2020 he presented "Woyzeck Interrupted" after Georg Büchner, an examination of the subject of femicide....
The element of language is the fluid, believes Kim de l'Horizon. It is the "sluggish, the deep, the latent, the carrying, sweeping, surging, the drowning, storing, giving life, inexhaustible, reflecting, harboring monsters, dissolving". According to the novel "Blood Book", writing is also a wavy line, "a wave coming from afar, which began long before me and will continue to flow long after me".Kim de l'Horizon has already carried this wave of writing a long way, including winning the German and...
Her gaze is penetrating. Serious, resolute and a bit cold, Simone de Beauvoir looks from a large poster at all those approaching the exhibition in her honor on the ground floor of the Literature House - and also those who would rather turn off quickly for a coffee in the brasserie. Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) would understand, after all, the famous writer, philosopher, feminist, existentialist once sat around in Paris coffee houses all day long. But would she...
The theater rebels against the capitalist world again, this time with a sex shop in the Munich Kammerspiele. A situation report. source site
Carolin Würfel traces the life and friendship of the GDR writers Christa Wolf, Maxie Wander and Brigitte Reimann. She gets extremely close to them. source site
Luka Holmegaard's radically subjective essay "Look" about the fantastic possibilities and the real limits of fashion. source site
Of Tanya restSo there she is, 32-year-old Alice in 1975, in the dressing room of West German Radio and almost famous. The make-up artist is still brushing a bit, the editorial assistant has long been there with her bureaucratic notebook and urges us to leave. Alice (Nina Gummich) decrees five minutes and looks deep into the mirror. "How can you remain so calm?" wonders the make-up woman. And Alice, with really cold composure, in which the arrogance is already beginning...
Of Jacqueline LangThe fact that your own mother blocks you on Instagram, you have to manage that first. Parshad Esmaeili succeeded. The mother found her daughter's sense of humor "too mangy". Esmaeili can laugh about it, because the relationship between the two is good. But that wasn't always the case: When Esmaeili gave up her studies two years ago to concentrate only on her career as a comedian, there are months in which almost every conversation between the two ends...
