North America – In jail on election day
Canada: The country is actually pretty empty, but forest fires can still regularly make the sky dirty. Photo: picture alliance/dpa/XinHua | Liang Sen People always think of Canada as being…
GDR and FRG – German national anthems: Without a beautiful sun
This leaded glass window in the Chemnitz town hall survived the GDR. Photo: imago/Wolfgang Schmidt 75 years ago, on November 6, 1949, on the first page of “New Germany,” the…
Climate crisis – livelihoods at risk
Photo: Leopoldina CC BY-ND 4.0 nach Lenton et al. (Nature 2019) Shortly before this year’s UN climate conference in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, the climate system is sending another loud…
Climate research – Trump’s election victory: Fact resistance for everyone
The US agency for oceanic and atmospheric research NOAA provides, among other things, important information on hurricanes, here the hurricane “Milton” off the coast of Florida in October of this…
Cinema – film “Blitz”: anti-fascist exclamation mark
Mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) and her son George (Elliott Heffernan) defy the German bombing terror. Photo: Apple TV+ When nine-year-old George (Elliott Heffernan) and other children are to be evacuated…
Obituary – Walter Heynowski: Enlightenment and evening light
A whistleblower of the 20th century: Walter Heynowski Photo: dpa/Barbara Morgenstern Truth makes grotesque inventions. There’s a German named Siegfried Müller. A scrap of heroic myth sewn together with a…
Nazi resistance – memory of Mirjam Ohringer: Always with ears and eyes outside
Mirjam Ohringer worked tirelessly against forgetting until she was very old. Photo: Allegra Schneider Marx and Moses, the commitment against social injustice and for one’s own Jewish tradition, were the…
Indie rock – finally right: Pixies
Now go to his fellow musicians: Black Francis alias Charles Thompson Photo: dpa The new Pixies album “The Night the Zombies Came” is here. And it’s good. It took Charles…
US election – Donald Trump’s agitation infects college sports
Because a trans woman is supposed to be part of the San Jose State University volleyball team, some teams no longer want to compete against her. Photo: AP/Santiago Mejia The…
Europa League – Football: Eintracht Frankfurt as a role model for traditional clubs
Impressive talents: Pharell Nnamdi Collins (l.) and Jean-Matteo Bahoya Photo: imago/HMB-Media Inevitably, Eintracht Frankfurt footballers are increasingly coming to the training pitch wearing gloves and hats these days. It has…