Particle physics – collision machines underground
The CMS detector in the tunnel of the LHC particle accelerator was used to find, among other things, the Higgs particle. Photo: AFP/Valentin Flauraud Scientists at the European Nuclear Research…
Middle East War – What a disgrace, what a catastrophe!
October 22, 2024: An Israeli missile hits southern Beirut. Photo: AFP A year ago, the diary notes of the renowned Israeli-American historian Saul Friedländer from the first half of 2023…
Avant-garde of the 20th century – Surrealism in the Lenbachhaus Munich: Alarm! ALARM! ALARM!!!
The “Grand tableau antifasciste collectif” (1960) put its finger on the wound of French colonialism and was promptly confiscated and locked away for 27 years. Photo: Lukas Schramm It would…
GDR history – “Contemporary witnesses always remember differently”
Foto: DDR Museum/ Nic Mattick How did you come to work at the DDR Museum? I am a military historian and worked for ten years at the Bundeswehr Center for…
Documentary “Dahomey” – “Dahomey” in the cinema: Trapped in the Paris museum
You can’t help but think about colonialism and colonial history together with the film. Photo: MUBIFilm In a first step, the glory of the colonial state is reduced. Using images…
“With love, your Hilde” – Liv Lisa Frie: “I can’t always make a film like that.”
Could also pass as an alternative couple in today’s Berlin: Hans (Johannes Hegemann) and Hilde Coppi (Liv Lisa Fries) Photo: Pandora Film Liv Lisa Fries, Andreas Dresen’s film in which…
Reproductive medicine – prenatal diagnosis: selection is common practice
With non-invasive prenatal tests that are already regularly used, fetuses could theoretically be examined for a variety of genetic abnormalities. Photo: IMAGO/Pond5 Images In the summer, a scandal involving the…
Pedro Almodóvar – Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door”: Finale of a symphony of life
Martha (Tilda Swinton) asks Ingrid (Julianne Moore) to be in the next room when she goes on her final journey. Photo: Ó El Deseo/Iglesias Más Our life runs towards death…
Gaza War – What a disgrace, what a catastrophe!
October 22, 2024: An Israeli missile hits southern Beirut. Photo: AFP A year ago, the diary notes of the renowned Israeli-American historian Saul Friedländer from the first half of 2023…
Anti-Semitism – again and still
Philipp Peyman Engel, editor-in-chief of the “Jüdische Allgemeine” Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Sebastian Gollnow Special notes Dear Mr. Peyman Engel, please do not leave our country! You are right to…