Defa Foundation: Christa Kožik: The protective dream
Kästner once said that only those who grow up and remain children are human. Christa Kožik took this to heart. Photo: dpa/Defa Foundation What does someone draw from throughout their…
Nobel Prize: A prize without meat
Should people be plants? Han Kang, the latest Nobel Prize winner for literature Photo: IMAGO/Alexander Mahmoud/DN/TT A pale, thin man in a black suit emerges from a door with gold…
TV duel: Wagenknecht vs. Weidel: Six out of ten
Alice Weidel (AfD) and Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) exchange blows on Springer station “Welt TV”. Photo: dpa/Kay Nietfeld It was not known exactly what the top politicians Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) and…
ARD series: “Made in Germany”: Compliment or racism?
There are six episodes about six hip, young Berliners with a migrant background. Photo: ARD When young Ani (Maria Mai Rohmann) meets a man in a Berlin club and flirts…
The good column: The overly stiff part in the bottom middle
What’s wrong with the “over-stiff part”? Martin Walser, 2018 Photo: dpa When she feels his swelling masculinity through the thin wool material of her skirt, when fire is kindled in…
German Peasants’ War: “The greatest attempt at revolution”
Werner Tübke’s panorama in Bad Frankenhausen – the Great German Peasants’ War is embedded in the early bourgeois revolution. Photo: dpa/Jens Wolf Along with the Reformation, the Peasants’ War is…
Non-fiction: Massacres – in the old and new world
The Spanish conquer the Aztec Empire. Photo: Archive Global history is booming. She takes the whole world into view. In the new book by Dresden culture professor Marina Münkler, however,…
Chamber play dystopia: “The Beast”: In DNA purification
Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) and Louis (George MacKay) meet on three time levels, desire each other, and yet cannot find each other. Photo: Carole Bethuel/Grandfilm No matter what Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux)…
Buñuel’s biography: Nightmares from the razor
“For me, bourgeois morality is immorality that needs to be fought,” said Luis Buñuel. Photo: New Visions Film Distribution There are things I just don’t want to see. This includes…
Non-fiction: Massacres – in the old and new world
The Spanish conquer the Aztec Empire. Photo: Archive Global history is booming. She takes the whole world into view. In the new book by Dresden culture professor Marina Münkler, however,…