Tag: postcolonialism
Leipzig Book Fair: The present is its theme
The Netherlands and Flanders are guest countries at the Leipzig Book Fair under the motto “Everything but flat”. What literature awaits us there? source site
“55 Voices for Democracy” series: pincer attack from right and left – culture
In the fall of 1940, the British radio station BBC asked the German Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann to write short radio lectures in his Californian exile that were broadcast…
Non-fiction book “Shark Island – The First German Concentration Camp” – Culture
The history of the German concentration camps has now been well researched. But who knows how it started? Where was the first camp? Few could say the answer: Shark Island,…
Portrait of the writer David Van Reybrouck – Culture
David Van Reybrouck rolls into the yard on an old mountain bike. He apologizes for the 30 seconds delay. And the splattered shoes, sorry! He bounces up the stairs to…
The political scientist Wolfgang Kraushaar on the confusion of left-wing theories – culture
The political scientist and social researcher Wolfgang Kraushaar has researched the history of left-wing radicalism in the Federal Republic more meticulously than anyone else. The fact that part of the…
Reopening of the Berlin House of World Cultures – Culture
There are strange rituals in Germany: When a house is inaugurated, a red ribbon is stretched, only to be cut with giant scissors. In the Berlin House of World Cultures…
Documenta Fifteen: Art or Activism?
After endless debates, the fifteenth Documenta begins in Kassel. It may contain traces of anti-Semitism, and the rest is debatable as well. source site