Streaming – Linear TV: Deadline!
Television brings people together – at least it used to. Photo: Photocase/Brilliant Eye Discipline is in bad shape. At school anyway. Those authoritarian bones that made entire generations of students…
“Rumble in the Jungle” – Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman: Hype and Reality
Muhammad Ali with a “power punch” against George Foreman at the “Rumble in the Jungle” fight of the century in 1974 Foto: IMAGO/UPI Photo Do you know Eliud Kipchoge? The…
The Voice of the Kraken – Ray Nayler: What would the Kraken say?
But the extraordinary octopuses are not better creatures because they live more closely with nature. Foto: IMAGO/ZUMA Press Wire What would happen if one day we suddenly encountered an intelligent,…
Archeology – Transgender is not a modern invention
Foto: akg/Ikon Images/Magictorch Gali Jaffe, what do you say about people complaining that gender issues are now supposedly politicizing a field like archeology? Jaffe: It depends on how you look…
Alfonso Cuaron – “Disclaimer” series: The power of prejudice
Catherine Ravenscroft (Cate Blanchett) has to deal with the ghosts of the past. Photo: Apple TV+ Things are actually going really well for London journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Cate Blanchett). She…
Genosse Shakespeare – Make Art Great Again
Photo: wikimedia/NYPL Digital Gallery It is not uncommon for me to be accused of evading actual social problems with my distant observations on the fine arts, especially when they are…
Cannibalism – Children are not innocent
It’s love, stupid! Foto: picture alliance/Julian Stratenschulte My first boyfriend was called Hugo. Hugo was born two months, three days and five hours before me, but his body was still…
“With love, your Hilde” – Liv Lisa Fries: “The whole story was extreme for me”
Could also pass as an alternative couple in today’s Berlin: Hans (Johannes Hegemann) and Hilde Coppi (Liv Lisa Fries) Photo: Pandora Film Liv Lisa Fries, Andreas Dresen’s film in which…
Berliner Volksbühne – Pollesch’s “Manzini Studies”: The crunch, the drama, the terror
Just don’t be shy: Wuttke, Tietjen, Angerer in squadron mode Photo: © Apollonia T. Bitzan Currently, as long as this is still possible, the disciples of the discourse theater messiah…
Inside Alliance Wagenknecht – a lesson in political attention economics
You can read it on their faces: shaking up the party landscape and at the same time blowing up the Left Party is very strenuous. Photo: ZDF/ Thomas Riedel Armor…