Tag: Zeitgeist
Schaubühne Berlin: Bitter comedy
In “Postcards from the East” at the Berlin Schaubühne, affluent German citizens and unemployed Ukrainian actors in exile agree on many things. Actually. source site
Largest cruise ship in the world: floating purgatory – culture
Osgood Fielding III In the film “Some Like It Hot” he sinks his yacht in a “wild on-board party” off Miami. Because it was significantly smaller than the current “largest…
Cologne Furniture Fair: Now things are getting cozy – culture
The “Echo” side table, which the company Cor Sitz Möbel Helmut Lübke GmbH & Co. KG, based in East Westphalia, is presenting at the current Cologne furniture fair, is the…
Gender ban: Söder’s government statement is largely based on the zeitgeist – Bavaria
If you wanted to compare Prime Minister Markus Söder’s government program for the next five years with a menu, then it would most likely be that of a home-style restaurant:…
Youth word “Goofy”: Why young people swear differently – Panorama
“Goofy” is the youth word of the year, a derogatory term. A German expert explains how swear words change – and what the warm shower principle is all about. The…
Uniforms are still compulsory for many young people in Japan. But the zeitgeist is unstoppable – Panorama
Among Tokyo’s skyscrapers, the Taimei State Elementary School building looks quite small. Nevertheless, it attracts attention with its columns and ivy-covered facades. The timeless elegance matches the tenacity with which…
Big gesture: after three years of the pandemic, the handshake returns. – Culture
The question of how much the pandemic state of emergency has irritated social coexistence can be negotiated via the status of a small gesture: the handshake. Even long after the…
Who wants Frauke Petry’s bed – Kultur
Do you want to sleep in the bed of a former AfD chairman? About things that you would rather not know, but unfortunately know anyway. As the saying goes, things…
Youth and automobility: Berlin is more auto-fixated than it has been for a long time – culture
There is news from Berlin’s Friedrichstrasse, although not on the famous section that has recently been declared a pedestrian zone; there you still see very few passers-by, and if you…
Dating on the Internet: Am I hot?
With the Tinder dating portal, you can select those that apply to you from a predefined list of 300 “interests”. What that says about me – and about our present.…