Tag: Obituary
Obituary for Barbara Stamm: farewell to the mother courage of the CSU – Bavaria
She was president of the state parliament, carnival queen and the social conscience of the CSU. Hardly anyone in the party was as close to the people as Barbara Stamm.…
Pharoah Sanders: Personal obituary for a jazz icon
Our author hates jazz. But suspects that it must be something great. Who could open up new worlds of sound for him if not one of the last jazz icons?…
Obituary for actress Louise Fletcher: Thank you, sister – culture
If you want to pay tribute to Louise Fletcher, who died at her home in southern France on Friday at the age of 88, then perhaps not with three dates…
Obituary for Hilary Mantel – Culture
Of Meredith Haaf Hilary Mantel has always been drawn to the dead and the not-to-be-dead. Her first novel was about a spiritist, her autobiography she called “Giving up the Ghost”…
Obituary for the writer Javier Marías: Wild and sentimental – culture
There is an aphorism by Javier Marías that is quoted again and again in football columnist debates in Spanish-speaking countries: “Football is the weekly recapture of childhood.” A few weeks…
Obituary on the death of Javier Marías: The King of Madrid – Culture
Of Reinhard J Brembeck On June 13, 1996, Marcel Reich-Ranicki wore a yellow tie with red stripes (the colors of the Spanish flag) in the “literary quartet” and pronounced the…
Obituary on the death of Javier Marías: The King of Madrid – Culture
Of Reinhard J Brembeck On June 13, 1996, Marcel Reich-Ranicki wore a yellow tie with red stripes (the colors of the Spanish flag) in the “literary quartet” and pronounced the…
Dutch goalkeeper is dead: obituary for Piet Schrijvers
The Dutch footballers of the 1970s were also and especially admired in tight-fisted Germany. Many of them were daringly coiffed characters: great players and bon vivants who knew that training…
Obituary for pianist Lars Vogt: He was at his best when he faltered – culture
That was sixteen years ago when the then 36-year-old pianist Lars Vogt, the great hope for young talent in the German piano heaven, came on the scene with Johannes Brahms’…
Die Ärzte and “Elke”: A belated obituary for my former favorite band
03.09.2022, 15:04 2 min reading time The doctors were the pop heroes of my youth. Their mockingly irreverent songs carried me through the sadness of the Helmut Kohl years. Now…