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Stefan Raab is unfortunately back on German television with “You won’t win a million here with Stefan Raab”. Photo: dpa/Raab Entertainment/RTL | Julia Feldhagen The humor of the 90s was…

Emma Nova plays Jenny with almost documentary intensity. Photo: World Cinema Love can be so beautiful. In the first shot of the film we see Jenny and Bolle cuddling on…

Photo: picture alliance/dpa/Jörg Carstensen Until a few weeks ago, Anis Youssef Ferchichi – better known as Bushido – had an excellent handle on the staging of his own life. Since…

The forest gorge scene: behind every tree an abyss Foto: Brinkhoff/Mögenburg What,” Erich Fried once asked in a poem, “is the forest to us Germans?” – to give several answers:…

An “old building in a central location,” as the title promises? Or just “fuck cells with district heating” that Heiner Müller warned about? Photo: Rolf Arnold At the end of…

wikimedia.com/CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo: wikimedia.org/CC BY-SA 4.0 It’s not often that the forgotten are dragged into the light of the present. And if it does happen, the person who disappeared…

What do the sausage and the wall have in common? Two ends (pictured: one end of the wall in the village of Moedlareuth) Photo: IMAGO/Funke Photo Services “Everything has an…

Johannes Weilandt, POLIZEY No. I, 2023, 42 x 29.7 cm, colored pencil on paper Photo: © Johannes Weilandt/lfbrecht.de All of Berlin is interested in the police? Not all of Berlin,…

Herrmann Zschoche did not stop being a romantic looking for expression. Foto: Imago/Future Image Herrmann Zschoche is the romantic among the Defa directors. This never stopped him from describing the…

Fighting against the windmills of the rock business: Blue Cheer, 1968 in the Netherlands Photo: IMAGO/piemags Dickie Peterson ends up settling in Germany and works as a day job as…