Tag: Kultur
Illustrated book about Heilandskirche Sacrow with Hanns Zischler – Kultur
Now in the summer, the actor and writer Hanns Zischler regularly goes out to Sacrow near Potsdam to swim. That’s always a bit time-consuming, the classic bathing spots in the…
Exceptional pianist: The recordings of the legendary Alfred Cortot – Kultur
This 40-CD edition of recordings by pianist Alfred Cortot (Warner Classics) from 1919 to 1960 is a gift to all piano specialists, all music lovers and all non-believers. Most of…
Germany’s most important artist: Interview with Hito Steyerl – Kultur
Hito Steyerl has been letting things rip in her videos for 25 years: brightly colored, politically radical, she almost always appears in them herself. She has also been a star…
Interview with Samantha Fox: “Honestly, my career is based on a lie” – Kultur
In the 1980s, Samantha Fox (“Touch Me”) sold 30 million records. She was also probably the most famous Page 3 girl in the world. Then they cheated their managers, ex-boyfriends…
Children’s book “Like Invisible Sparks” by Elle McNicoll – Kultur
A girl shares what it’s like to live with autism in Elle McNicoll’s award-winning debut novel, Like Invisible Sparks. What most neurotypical people – i.e. the “normal people” – know…
Suspicion of hate speech: public prosecutor examines case Waters – Kultur
The investigations against Pink Floyd-Co-founder Roger Waters on suspicion of sedition is now a case for prosecutors. The state protection of the Berlin police, which is responsible for politically motivated…
Keith Jarrett: Recording Sonatas Carl Philipp Emanuael Bach – Kultur
A well-known find from the last century: in May 1994, the then 49-year-old American pianist Keith Jarrett recorded the so-called “Württemberg Sonatas” by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the second son…
An interview with the “father of modern AI” Jürgen Schmidhuber – Kultur
In the tech world, computer scientist Jürgen Schmidhuber is called the “father of modern AI”. When he recently gave a guest lecture at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich for…
Sexualised assaults: “The university institution is predestined for this” – Kultur
At the Humboldt University in Berlin, an employee is suspected of having sexually harassed female students for decades. Scientist Heike Pantelmann explains why this is easily possible. At the Humboldt…
Vater der Atombombe: “Oppenheimer” ist der Film der Stunde – Kultur
Ein Film über den Vater der Atombombe, Julius Robert Oppenheimer, ist auf dem Weg, zu einem der großen Blockbuster dieses Sommers zu werden. Blockbuster übrigens nannte man zuerst jene übergroßen…