GDR art – Otto Kayser in Gotha: The love of transformation
Otto Kayser, “Transformation of Io”, etching, 24.5 × 32 cm, 1983 Photo: Otto Kayser estate “I wanted Otto Kayser to have an exhibition that was just as big as Kurt…
“We Were Here” – Stuttgart band Die Nerve – Strangely cheerful
“I don’t want to function anymore”: the nerves. Photo: dpa As we all know, musical trends come as quickly as they go: a good ten years ago, a genre called…
The good column – hashtag #daslebenlebennicht
A painfully long, difficult to bear rear-end collision noise is suitable as a so-called jingle for the social media channels of the ideology-critical influencer. Photo: dpa I’m not sure whether,…
Cinema – Film “Baby Teeth”: A girl stands in the forest
Otherwise everything in German cinema is explained to death. Here we would like to be given a little more guidance. Photo: color film rental If you want to illustrate the…
Aussie crime thriller – This man is right
Prison usually means unchecked control and power: juvenile prison in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Photo: dpa Down Under continues to have a racism problem. A white skin color is considered…
Postcolonialism – dying is a formality
46,400 people from sub-Saharan Africa fled to Spain this year alone, 1,000 of whom died. Photo: Andreas Hedrich/Sebastian Pampuch/Unrast The colonial world is a world divided into compartments,” wrote Frantz…
“Conclave” in the cinema – “Conclave” by Edward Berger: The Pope in a plastic bag
Just people – with mistakes, sins, regrets and weaknesses Foto: imago/Landmark Media In “Conclave,” director Edward Berger tackles nothing less than the legendary election of the Pope. In a place…
40 years of “Like A Virgin” – Madonna: Selling yourself, but as expensively as possible
»If they don’t give me proper credit / I just walk away«: Madonna 1984 Photo: dpa This story doesn’t have a happy ending. Unfortunately. The woman in question was an…
Netflix series – “Bank under Siege”: Hands up or we’ll put up a coup
Exciting question: Are they just bank robbers or a right-wing terrorist group? Foto: Netflix When eleven masked, armed men stormed the central bank in Barcelona in the morning hours of…
»Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story« – Series on misogyny: Kidnapped by the stalker
The eternal pact with the devil: up the boulevard in the elevator and back down with it Photo: ZDF In the summer of 2017, 20-year-old British model Chloe Ayling (Nadia…