Tag: story
Greece: Laskarina Bouboulina, the heroine of Hellas – Reise
from Christiane Schlötzer, Spetses Everything is still there. The outside staircase that leads to the first floor on the terrace with the Moorish arches. And inside the carved wooden ceiling…
a delivery man slashed in the face for a story of cigarettes in Bordeaux
A violent brawl broke out between two men on Monday afternoon Sainte-Catherine Street, in the city center of Bordeaux. It would be a meal delivery man and one of his…
Row 55 Voices of Democracy Colm Tóibín – Culture
Democracy can be a great stabilizer, but it also gives people the right to change their minds over time. That holds great opportunities. In the autumn of 1940 the British…
New book about the last crown prince of the Hohenzollern culture
from Jörg Häntzschel Kronprinzenpalais, Unter den Linden. There is no better place in Berlin to present a new book about the Crown Prince of the Hohenzollern, of course everyone agrees…
Hohenzollern: Four appointment processes – culture
The second day of this little Hohenzollern Festival, which happened by chance in Berlin, was less lively. No fewer than four appeals proceedings in cases brought by the Prince of…
September 11th – an initial spark for belief in conspiracies – culture
Of Alex Rühle It was George W. Bush. So not personally. But the neoconservative Rat Pack around Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz staged the whole thing, the explosions inside the…
Land under: The Hamburg flood in 1962 and the rise of Helmut Schmidt – Society
The catastrophic flooding in the west of the republic brings back memories of a similarly great disaster when the disaster came from the sea in Hamburg 59 years ago. At…
September 11th – how the US distanced itself from its values - culture
Surveillance mania, torture, killings: How the US moved away from its values after September 11th. And never found your way back completely, as a glance at Kabul shows today. Of…
Royal fool: Lothar Machtan’s book on the Hohenzollern dispute – culture
On a foggy autumn morning, Kaiser Wilhelm II left the Great Headquarters in Spa and went into exile in Holland without a sound. It was November 10, 1918, the emperor…
Language historian Horst Simon on changes and gender asterisks – culture
Why is there so bitter argument about the gender star? The language historian Horst Simon explains how language changes, what it reveals about power mechanisms – and about the speakers…