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We dance Rucki-Zucki, the right-wing discourse boogie-woogie. Foto: Stephen Arnold/unsplash If you ask young people which party is “right” and which is “left” and what that even means, you often…

Maybe the German PJ Harvey: Sandra Hülser Photo: Jan Versweyveld This year’s Ruhrtriennale under the direction of Ivo van Hove has the motto “Longing for Tomorrow – Longing for Tomorrow”.…

For Greer Garrison Winbury (Nicole Kidman) and husband Tag (Liev Schreiber), a death in the family doesn’t come in handy. Photo: Netflix When Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson) was still sleepy…

Almost hippie-esque: the Hellseatic Festival Photo: Hellseativ The fate of the Bremen Hellseatic Festival is exemplary for many small and medium-sized festivals at the moment. Since the disruption that the…

Photo: afp/Micheal Reaves Alexandra Truwit has a warning for all adolescents who don’t feel like taking swimming lessons at school: “Swimming definitely saved my life,” says the 24-year-old with her…

Weightlifter Hadi Darvish fled Iran for Germany and is competing in Paris for the refugee team. Photo: UNHCR Hadi Darvish was amazed. The weightlifter looked like he couldn’t believe what…

Dominant in wheelchair basketball: the women from the Netherlands, here against the USA Foto: imago/BEAUTIFUL SPORTS/Wunderl If everything goes normally in Paris, the Dutch will be at the top again…

Chinese athletes won almost twice as many medals in Paris as Great Britain, in second place in this ranking. Photo: imago/Zhang Haofu Medals are always a measure of success at…

Lava and smoke are currently emerging from a two-kilometer-long fissure in the Svartsengi volcanic system on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwest Iceland. Photo: dpa/Almannav A volcano recently erupted again in…

Pole vaulter Armand Duplantis gave hurdler Karsten Warholm no chance over 100 meters. Photo: dpa/KEYSTONE/Michael Buholzer This is how modernizers of athletics imagine it: a perfectly staged duel between two…