Trans prostitution: living with the double stigma
Nikki wants to remain anonymous and actually prefers to receive her customers in her apartment because she feels safe and comfortable there. Photo: dpa/Andreas Arnold She drove with her first…
Aslı Özarslan: Film “Elbow”: Young women are allowed to be angry
Hazal (Melia Kara, far right) has experienced many micro and macro injuries in his life. The anger then comes automatically. Photo: Haydar Tastan/Attention Panda! When you read Fatma Aydemir’s book,…
Textile texts: Gods in splendor and people in gray
Today it is considered sustainable and ecological: linen, as Robert Redford wore in the 1985 film “Out of Africa” Foto: Imago/courtesy Ronald Grant Archive / Mary Evans It begins with…
Underground film: Queer cinema: The sky full of Lamberts
Could also be Lothar Lambert’s motto, but it comes from the trailer for “No film under this number”, his unfinished film about a telephone sex company. Foto: LoLaFilm “When I…
Paralympics: Hadi Darvish is one of eight athletes on the refugee team
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…
Paralympics: Bayer Leverkusen: The Paralympic power center in Germany
Leverkusen’s Johannes Floors (r.) ran fourth in the 100 meters in Paris. Foto: imago/Hoffmann Optimal conditions. Jörg Frischmann likes to use these two words to explain the success of Bayer…
First World War: Study on the First World War: Ethnic field consolidation
Sacrificial trench warfare was typical of the First World War Photo: planet-wissen.de To get straight to the point: it is a purely rhetorical question with which Bernhard Sauer titled his…
Ukraine War: Only peace saves lives
Also a consequence of the Ukrainian War: the monument to the Russian soldiers who took part in the defense of Sevastopol during the Crimean War (1853-1856) is being dismantled in…
Non-fiction book: Honorable merchants in the Nazi era?
The “honorable merchants” still reside here today. Photo: Wikipedia Felix Matheis opens a macabre chapter in the history of German capitalism. He is reminiscent of Hanseatic merchants who followed German…
Film: “Rock’n Roll Ringo”: Always a solid druff
Thief Ringo (Martin Rohde) turns the local demimonde of a fair against him. Photo: 2024 UCM.ONE Just two years ago, director Dominik Galizia achieved a surprise success with his small…