Music: Jacques Palminger and 440 Hertz: comedy everywhere and nowhere
Photo: MISITUNES With music and humor it’s difficult sometimes. A song that is essentially based on a joke only really works the first time. Telling a joke over and over…
Installation Art: Skepticism on the Moon
In Erlich’s rocket you only appear to be weightless. Photo: Marek Kruszewski A three-story house is floating in the air, with roots hanging from its underside – apparently it was…
Dresden Symphony Orchestra: No egomania on the rhythmic battlefield
Conducting without a desk: three friendly robots carry the baton. Photo: David Suenderhauf/Dresdner Sinfoniker The gallant bow of the three robot arms with seven joints and the colorfully glowing batons…
“With love, your Hilde”: Liv Lisa Fries as Hilde Coppi: “The film doesn’t abstract”
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…
Cultural policy: Book fair: Italy is a bad-tempered country
It is not the criticism that should be negated, but the critic himself: the writer Roberto Saviano was nevertheless the star of the Frankfurt Book Fair. Photo: dpa “Come with…
Antimilitarism: Ukraine War: For a second Zimmerwald
Muhammad Ali already knew: “Clean out a cell for me and put me in a hole.” Because it’s better to have prison bread than to be in Vietnam and dead.”…
Cultural theory: Strong with poodles and pussyhats
Once again the subject of controversy: Jeff Koons’ “Balloon Dog” Foto: Jon Bower / LOOP IMAGES Everyone knows him, but not everyone likes him. Culturally critical opinions differ when it…
Transgender: Gali Jaffe: “A skeleton says nothing about gender”
Foto: akg-images/Ikon Images/Magictorch Gali Jaffe, what do you say about people complaining that gender issues are now supposedly politicizing a field like archeology? Jaffe: It depends on how you look…
Psychoanalyst: Fascism in Germany: Resentments and Projections
Dad explains the world – and National Socialism was often less of an issue. Foto: imago/United Archives Ms. Johne, what do you mean by the “unconscious conscious” when you talk…
Ezzes by Estis: Mischa, the Great Poet (Part I)
This chair in front of an eager reading audience has already been reserved for Mischa. Photo: imago/Imaginechina-Tuchong Misha is a great poet. He’s not the only one who says that,…