Tag: Identity politics
Denzel Washington: And now Hannibal – culture
He goes further and further back into history: When the advertising machine for Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator Part 2” starts this year, many will be looking particularly excitedly at Denzel Washington.…
CH-Beck programmer Martin Hielscher in an interview about life as a lecturer – culture
Editor Martin Hielscher set up the fiction program at C.-H.-Beck-Verlag. Now he stops. A conversation about offended writers’ souls, the discovery of Christian Kracht and the books of his life.…
Scandal at women’s rights association Terre des Femmes about trans rights – culture
It is a case from the heart of contemporary identity-political debates: a month-long dispute over a “position paper on transgender, self-determination and gender” became a crucial test for Terre des…
CSU in Bavaria: More protest than a program party – Bavaria
After the botched state elections in 2018, the CSU vowed never again to strike the tone of the AfD. It sounds softer on migration, but when it comes to the…
Jens Balzer’s essay "ethics of appropriation": Everything is Creole
There is no reason to leave the critique of the idea of ”cultural appropriation” to conservatives. The pop theorist Jens Balzer dares to take a skeptical look from the left.…
Cultural Appropriation: Jamaica does the sausage
A concert in Switzerland is canceled because the predominantly white band plays reggae and some wear dreadlocks. attempt at reconciliation. source site
Left doesn’t click: The left forgets the poor. This will take revenge – culture
“If you can’t tell left and right, you can experience something, listen to it!” More than forty years ago, Rolf Zuckowski sang a song with the inconspicuous title Left and…
Tess Sharp’s thriller The Girls I’ve Been. – Culture
“The Girls I’ve Been” , the thriller by Tess Scharpe tells the story of a teenager trying to lead a new life incognito. you think you know me Wrong thought.…
No appearance with minders: Caroline Fourest cancels the Volksbühne – culture
Caroline Fourest, critic of left-wing identity politics, should have read at the Volksbühne. Then the dramaturges spoke up. The French publicist Caroline Fourest has caused heated debates with her criticism…
Hanau and the consequences: The radio play “The Half Half and the Whole Whole” – Media
She calls him Frederick. He’s that German after all. You don’t get his real name. But this much: His parents come from Turkey. And they definitely don’t say Friedrich to…