Tag: Thomas Mann
Exhibition “Forbidden Books” in the Literaturhaus – Munich
What unites works by Frank Wedekind, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie? An exhibition in the Literaturhaus shows how unpopular works were censored and destroyed by state or religious watchdogs worldwide…
Buddenbrookhaus: Oh man
In Lübeck there is a dispute about the planned new construction of the Buddenbrook Museum. The whole project is now at stake. What will happen to Thomas Mann’s legacy now?…
Teresa Reichl kritisiert den Literaturkanon – ein Gespräch – Bayern
Die Kabarettistin und Germanistin Teresa Reichl kritisiert auf Instagram und in einem Buch den Literaturkanon und fragt: “Muss ich das gelesen haben?” Ein Gespräch über Weltliteratur und Deutschunterricht, über Goethe…
Volker Weidermann: “Man from the sea. Thomas Mann and the love of his life” – culture
In some places in Thomas Mann’s work there are these well-hidden but noticeable shoals of kitsch. Like at the beginning of “Tonio Kröger”, when school is just over and it…
The new novel by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk – Culture
The primal and the rational, the impenetrable forest and the tidy conservatory, the blurred and the polished, the androgynous and the differentiated, the ambivalent and the dominant, the gods and…
Munich and Bavaria: culture and leisure tips from Kerstin Holzer – Munich
The new book is heartbreakingly beautiful to read, says Elke Heidenreich. Frido Mann finds it electrifying to the last line. What is meant is the current novel by the Munich-based…
Interview with Mikhail Shishkin – Culture
Interviewed by Moritz Baumsteiger His older children are at home, says Mikhail Shishkin as he collapses into an armchair. But the little one has to go on book tours –…
"The magic Mountain" at the Burgtheater: shoo, shoo
1000 pages in 130 minutes: Thomas Mann’s “The Magic Mountain” in a quick version at the Burgtheater in Vienna. source site
Frankfurt: Premiere of the opera “Bloom” by Vito Žuraj and Händl Klaus – culture
from Helmut Mauro Operas are most contemporary when they are particularly timeless. This also applies to completely new compositions, as the premiere of “Bloom” at the Frankfurt Opera showed. On…
Criticism of Dieter Borchmeyer’s biography “Thomas Mann” – Kultur
from Gustav Seibt Dieter Borchmeyer explains in a “resolution” what this gigantic book wants to be and what it isn’t. He takes on “probably the first really comprehensive presentation of…