Tag: literature
Hiking in Germany: The man who wants to go halfway up
Achim Bogdahn has climbed the highest mountains of all German federal states. He would never have dared to do this without prominent Sherpas. source site
German youth literature prize for Kirsten Boie, Benedict Wells – culture
The journalist, author and founder of the International Youth Library in Munich, Jella Leppman, formulated more than 60 years ago that children’s books and children themselves are good ambassadors of…
Literature: Book Fair draws positive interim balance
literature Book Fair draws positive interim balance Visitors walk through a corridor during the Frankfurt Book Fair. photo © Sebastian Gollnow/dpa Peace and Nobel Prize winners were guests in Frankfurt…
The best comics for autumn – culture
Nick Drnaso: Acting Class The teacher’s name is John, a gray-haired inscrutable fellow, he greets his students in a sinister-friendly manner and guides them through the evenings of the “acting…
Kim de L’Horizon and the attention: I protest
Shaving for the Revolution: On the Big Difference Between Visibility and Justice in 2022. source site
Favorites of the week: recommendations from the SZ editorial team – culture
Illustrated book: “The Office of Good Intentions” Comedian Groucho Marx joked: “Anything you can’t do in bed, you don’t even have to start.” But Hugh Hefner, inventor of the playboy-Imperial…
Writer Mohsin Hamid on his novel The Last White Man – Culture
In the novel “The Last White Man” the protagonist suddenly wakes up as someone else – or does he? Pakistani-British writer Mohsin Hamid on identity, the construct of race and…
Jeremy Rifkin: “The Age of Resilience” – Culture
Of Andrian Kreye Jeremy Rifkin wants us to rethink. He’s not the only one there. Pretty much all factions in politics, as well as in the natural sciences and humanities…
Children’s book “Kati wants to be a grandfather”: La Grandpa Vita – Culture
There stands the lively little Kati in a group of old men who look as if the girl herself had drawn scrawls on the wall with a thick colored pencil.…
David van Reybrouck: "revolusi": orgies of violence
David van Reybrouck’s book “Revolusi” about Indonesia’s brutal colonial era is modern popular history in the best sense – and a lesson in how empires are brought down. source site