Repression: Berlinale: Very important in Iran
Taking pictures: Iranian censorship is more interested in images than text. The country’s cinema is in demand at festivals and feature pages worldwide; Iranian literature plays no role. There were…
Mark Zuckerberg: 20 years in the face
Foto: picture alliance / Photoshot It all didn’t start so harmlessly: In 2003, the then 19-year-old Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, pictured above, programmed a website that would allow his friends…
Talke Talks: O Rodeo, Rodeo, why are you Rodeo?
Always a big show in Texas: Rodeo Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Richard Ulreich Howdy from Texas, dear readers,The relationship between the neighboring Texas cities of Dallas and Fort Worth is…
Tar Sands: Not Just Carbon Dioxide | nd-aktuell.de
In order to extract tar sands, huge areas of land in Canada are being eaten up. Photo: imago/All Canada Photos Since the beginning of the millennium, the growing hunger for…
Transport transition: improving climate and mobility on smartphones
For this cyclist in Karlsruhe, traffic planning is not yet working optimally. Photo: dpa/Sebastian Gollnow When it comes to future-oriented transport planning for their city, local politicians are not to…
Gerhart Hauptmann Theater: The ordinariness of the people and their representatives
Garden party of general frustrated counter-everything mooters Photo: Pawel Sosnowski/pawelsosnowski.com Even before the premiere of “The Exemplary Life of Samuel W.” on January 20th, there was a lot of attention…
Good pop music: Yes, panic: “We believe in the first moment”
“You should never be too sure about what you are doing,” says Andreas Spechtl. Photo: dpa Ja, Panik’s new album is the “return as an indie rock band,” says the…
Transmediale and CTM 2024: wafts of fog and Big Tech
Everything is a sound body: Ben Frost and Greg Kubacki on the stage of Silent Green in Berlin-Wedding last weekend Photo: Udo Siegfriedt There may have been a lot of…
Umbrella Revolution: About the loss of a loved one
As usual, excellent in her role: Nicole Kidman as Margarete Photo: Amazon Prime Even though the streaming services produce masses of series and always sophisticated content, the arthouse pearls in…
Austria: Film »Rickerl«: cigarettes for breakfast
Generational meeting place: A Viennese pub with a guitar, father, son, regular host family Foto: Alessio M.Schroder For ten years, David Öllerer, alias Voodoo Jürgens, had a difficult time in…