Best of the Year: Barbie of the Year: King Charles III.

Bahareh Ebrahimi

Sandra Hueller

Heading towards spring

Best Fantasy-Film: »Poor Things« von Giorgos Lanthimos

Best romantic film: “Past Lives” by Celine Song

Best Documentary: “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” by Anna Hints

Best film to make you cry: “Radical” by Christopher Zalla

Most beautiful film: “Perfect Days” by Wim Wenders

“Still awake?” by Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre

One worse than the other

Red-Carpet des Cannes-Filmfestivals

Larissa Kuner

The concept of the “social market economy” – here too it is an unattainable ideal.

Yves Tumor mit dem Album »Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)«

Didn’t see many new films, but “Last Evening”, a German debut film, was very entertaining.

Reread: “Novel of a Fateless One” (1975) by Imre Kertész

Our nd columns “Talke Talks”, “Ezzes von Estis” and “Fun and Responsibility”

The minor matter

Be in love

“Body Count” – in some (online) circles, this military-sounding term refers to the number of previous sexual partners.

Christof Meueler

König Charles III.

Coffee that tastes good

“The Killer” by David Fincher: A strictly composed criminal life that doesn’t have to end – with the songs of The Smiths.

Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre: “Still awake?” Careerism, sexism, Bildzeitungism – the best analysis of the Springer Group since Günter Wallraff.

“The Last Socialist Artefact” on Arte: What was left of left-wing Yugoslavia – short happiness and long shots.

And also the worst: a decisive goal in stoppage time.

No alcohol

“It’s all ok”

Christine Odes

Sahra Wagenknecht

Short down jackets

A. V. Rockwell’s “A Thousand and One” is a very cleverly edited homage to the hip-hop culture of New York in the 80s, a moving mother-son story and an indictment of the ruling pig system.

Tess Gunty: “The Rabbit Hutch”. The story of how the book came about is fascinating in a chilling way. While the acknowledgments make it sound like Gunty didn’t write a book but rather trained for the Olympics, the language of this debut is actually sculpted to perfection (the new David Foster Wallace!!!). About her, her lecturers, her reading course, her friends, group chats. Gunty makes it transparent how bestsellers are bred today. This may be reprehensible, but it has been going on like this for decades (not just in the USA); It’s just that the product nature of literature has rarely been showcased in this way. If “The Rabbit Hutch” comes out in the end, the Walser features section can get upset, but it is still a great book.

Since it is impossible to watch series in which violence against women is voyeuristically over-aestheticized for the sake of quota, around 70 percent of the series are out of the question (e.g. the hype of the year “Dear Child”). Then it’s better to do something totally harmless, but one that upsets the collective memory of us children of the 90s, like the documentary series “Beckham.” The way Becks and Victoria dance to “Islands in the Stream” by Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers at the end puts any cat video to shame.

Pizza in the park

Advent calendar for four year olds

Ready for war

Vincent Sauer

Rainald Goetz joined the label and likes to make himself rare as a star. This means that no one says no anymore when they have to submit text; His last text area called “Baracke” is a bunch of notes about Germany, evil and the world, where contour through contradiction would have been important – I was dejected after the premiere in the DT, also his appearance as a lecture action figure, everything explained, doesn’t change anything.

The track “Generations” from the album “Curriculum Vitae” by CCCVVV

“Sisi & Me” by Frauke Finsterwalder. Without Karlheinz Böhm, but with the formidable Sandra Hülser as the Empress’s right hand, thanks to whom costume cinema with old nobility can still be the best socially critical cinema today (and of course much more).

“The Shards” by Bret Easton Ellis: Autofiction is a cover-up of murder in a dark dream factory in the sunshine, 900 pages of non-stop horny.

“Bodies” on Netflix because it tells a sophisticated and exciting story about how the same corpse is found again and again over the centuries by outsiders who ultimately plan an intergenerational conspiracy from below.

It was already running in 2022, but I was never as enthusiastic after a theater evening this year as I was after Frank Castorf’s “Fabian” at the Berliner Ensemble.

Small notebooks from Muji

Unfortunately, the presence of the sun cannot be influenced.

The use of the auxiliary verb “may” for poorly paid services in the cultural sector (be it writing, moderating or something else) always makes me angry.

Carl Vesper

Annalena Baerbock. However, there are no cuteness points in the arena of diplomacy.

Heat pump? Who needs something like that? Water pumps weren’t just a hit this year. Big shit: the sky is pouring itself out and towards us. Or, to put it lyrically, to paraphrase Eric Clapton: “It’s raining tears from heaven.”

I have a film tear there.

“Mildred”, “Times” bestseller by Rebecca Donner about the brave American wife of the German resistance fighter Arvid Harnack, who was murdered by the Nazis, and “Agent Sonja” by the British Ben Macintyre about Ursula Kuczynski alias Ruth Werner. And “Sabo” by the Berlin historian Ronald Friedmann about the short life of Elise Ewert, a German communist alongside the legendary Brazilian revolutionary Luís Carlos Prestes.

The real madness of politics: In an endless loop, absurdity and horror, unreason and incompetence. With changing actors.

Reader satisfaction with this newspaper

The motto “Carpe diem” (Pick the day) by the ancient poet Horace. And the wisdom of the Russian writer Nikolai A. Ostrovsky (“How the Steel Was Hardened”): “The most valuable thing a human being has is life. It is given to him only once.” You should live it.

Debt brake. Whose debts are being slowed down? Or to put it another way: Who is saddled with the debt so that the “Father State” can boast that it is debt-free?

Erik Zielke

Radiant on the outside, but hollow on the inside: value-driven foreign policy à la the Federal Republic of Germany

False start with an announcement: The short-term collective management of the Berlin Theatertreffen

Against the novelty craze: Jean-Luc Godard’s “The Chinese Woman” (1967)

After a long wait: “Our hope today is the crisis” – Bertolt Brecht’s interviews 1926–1956

Against the war: »XCI | XCIX« – a series of drawings by the Berlin artist Johannes Weilandt. (www.johannesweilandt.de)

New experience: family adventure

A classic: coffee, without milk, without sugar

Another classic: “Black Zero”