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More than 20 percent of the German population has problems reading and writing. Photo: dpa/Bernd Wüstneck September 8th is World Literacy Day. This reminds us that more than six million…

Clear the fog Caspar David Friedrich: The Monk by the Sea, 1808–1810 (state before restoration), oil on canvas, 110 × 171.5 cm Foto: imago images/Gemini Collection Dresden has the “Sistine…

A shelf full of books: a rather threatening scenario for quite a few people in Germany Photo: imago/Pond5 Images From a purely statistical perspective, every person in Germany should know…

Foto: IMAGO/United Archives When they started school in 1930, coats and gloves were popular; today, kids wear airy summer dresses and Bermuda shorts. Not just thanks to climate change. In…

Alfred Kubin: The Egg, approx. 1901/02, 15.8 × 23.8 cm, ink on paper Photo: ALBERTINA, Vienna © Eberhard Spangenberg, Munich/Bildrecht, Vienna 2024 It is undeniable that everything Austrian triggers a…

Hands up! Beginning of the new military policy: Chancellor Schröder visits Kosovo in 1999 after Germany took part in a war of aggression for the first time since 1945. Photo:…

It’s not just children who have a “stubborn attitude”, adults too Photo: zeitzuleben.de I’m supposed to explain to you what Daffke is, but Daffke is, if I don’t explain it…

When she’s not traveling around the world, she poses in front of sights in Germany, here in front of the Semperoper in Dresden. Photo: picture alliance/dpa/dpa-Zentralbild | Jens Kalaene Is…

The fascist Björn Höcke is repeatedly politely portrayed in the media. Photo: dpa/Michael Kappeler The most beautiful, true and at the same time funny sentence was spoken by the Edeka…

Foto: picture alliance/Michael Reichel “Shakespeare is,” as Peter Hacks wrote, “what we all want and cannot do.” As depressing and clear-sighted as this remarkable first sentence, written 60 years ago…