US Racism – Tommy Orange: How to Be Torn Apart
The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 Photo: americanindiens.org Tommy Orange is probably one of the media’s most well-known indigenous people in the USA at the moment. The 43-year-old writer, who…
RambaZamba Theater – The Devoted, Stubborn and Unruly
Only seemingly out of time “Doña Rosita remains single” at the RambaZamba Theater Photo: Phillip Zwanzig One of her farewell productions as director of the Berlin RambaZamba Theater in 2014…
The Good Column – penis fencing and top dog tastes
The only sensible way to deal with cars. Photo: PublicDomainPictures/pixabay A car manufacturer is trying to lure me with advertising for its new model. This, the ad says, offers “simply…
Capital of Culture Year 2025 – Chemnitz artists: “No reason for inferiority complexes”
The square between the municipal art collections (left) and the opera house (back) is a popular place for open-air culture in the European cultural capital Chemnitz. Photo: Nasser Hashemi Gabi…
Season 2 – Series “Severance” leads back into wage labor hell
Marc Scout (Adam Scott) has found the super hack: work and private life have to be linked, otherwise there will be no rebellion. Photo: Apple TV+ When Marc Scout (Adam…
Permanent crisis – capitalism in panic mode
How to capture speculative capital? Foto: IMAGO/imageBROKER Overfished, overvalued, overcommunicated, overloaded with brands, overaesthetized, overmedicated, monitored, overvirtualized, overmediaized” (Arthur Kroker and David Cook, 1989): Today it is particularly speculative capitalization…
Left-wing journalism – For everyone who isn’t finished yet
His writings belong to the ABC of left-wing thinking in Germany: Hermann L. Gremliza. Foto: picture alliance/dpa More rearmament, more state coercion, more Germany – that’s what the federal election…
“Kassandra’s Complex” – Friends of Italian Opera: Innovative through the meat grinder
Now less playful: The friends with singer Ray van Zeschau (1st from right) Photo: US Signal Corps/Michael Raadts Telling the story of the band Friends of the Italian Opera is…
BBC – Documentary about William Shakespeare: No kitsch alarm
Real rising star story: From the son of a craftsman to the most important poet in the world (Shakespeare, Daniel Boyarsky, middle) Foto: 72Film/All3 Media/International It was to be expected…
Donald Trump – Documentary “Fateful Years of a President”: A scary shocker
Overall, the aesthetics of a car crash. Foto: SWR/Library of Congress The extraordinary thing about a state of emergency is usually not how repulsive it is, but how attractive it…