New film by Nora Fingscheidt in the cinema – “The Outrun”: In the Maw
Rona (Saoirse Ronan) has absorbed life too deeply. Or rather the other way around. Photo: Studio Canal The big city can eat you up whole if you’re not careful. These…
Regionalliga Nordost – Carl Zeiss Jena against Chemie Leipzig: Heroes of the washcloth guild
Jena’s fans celebrated five goals, but the game against Chemie Leipzig also produced unpleasant noise. Photo: imago/Jan Huebner Oh, my fucking year-end angel, what were you thinking? Jena against Chemie…
Football – DFB Women: Learning effects under national coach Christian Wück
Coach Christian Wück (l.) is quite satisfied with the new offensive drive of the DFB team around captain Giulia Gwinn (m.). Photo: imago/Sven Simon Maybe at the beginning of December…
Italian Modernism – Freedom must remain outside
Palermo can be very narrow – until today. Photo: IMAGO/Frank Bienewald In Italy, literary modernity has found a form that is incomparable to any other European country. Here, avant-gardism, cosmopolitanism…
Antimilitarism – Something like malaria
Did Hitler hide the “miracle weapon” somewhere here? German soldiers on the Acropolis in occupied Greece, 1941 Photo: Alamy/Uwe Moser The Second World War is coming to an end. A…
Rhetoric – Making a speech
And suddenly you ask yourself: Are people looking at the fly circling around my head? Photo: dpa Recently I was invited to give a public speech. I asked myself: Why…
Cinema – »Reinas«: The last memories of Lima
Is there a better life for Lucia and Aurora in the USA? Photo: Diego Romero Suárez-Llanos/Alva Film Adolescents need coping strategies given the many trouble spots in the world. In…
Football – The early final in the DFB Cup
Bayern’s Jamal Musiala (l.) could replace the injured Harry Kane in the center of the attack in the cup game against Leverkusen. Photo: dpa/Sven Hoppe When Thomas Müller recently sat…
The good column – pocket square in camouflage
That would at least be traditional, and blackberry is very in right now. Photo: dpa/Frank Rumpenhorst In Goethe’s “Elective Affinities”, published in 1809, it says: “Men should wear uniforms from…
Classical and Romanticism – Goethe vs. Friedrich: Those orbiting the moon
Caspar David Friedrich liked to paint clouds, but not for Goethe: “Rügen landscape with a bay”, gouache over graphite pencil on vellum paper, 13 × 20.7 cm, around 1802 Photo:…