Caroline Wahl: When the quiet Baltic Sea becomes loud
Looks calm, but it can also be exactly the opposite: the Baltic Sea in the east. Photo: dpa We must constantly jump off cliffs and develop our wings on the…
Morocco: lie in the wind
What kind of blue is that? Maybe just sky blue? Photo: Jürgen Roth The light. Photographer light from morning to evening. A light streaming through a velvet blue, immaculately woven…
European Football Championship 2024: Playing forever: Luka Modrić
With almost 39: Croatia’s Luka Modrić scores 1-0 against Italy’s goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma (r.). Photo: dpa/Jan Woitas Was that it? The end of the slight genius’ great career? Luka Modrić…
Multiculturalism in football: From hero to “foreigner”
Kissing your hands is still allowed, right?! Photo: dpa/Bernd Weißbrod Major sporting events are always stages of identities. This is particularly true for football, which has always been considered to…
Jewish Film Festival: “You have to face reality”
A film festival that declares war on terror Photo: JFBB The Berlin Brandenburg Jewish Film Festival is taking place for the 30th time. And this year’s edition is likely to…
Series “Barcelona for Beginners”: Mindful neglected suburban idyll
If you want to do everything right, you’ll do most things wrong. Photo: NDR/Kiku PiÑol The behavior of locals living in particularly popular destinations is roughly inversely proportional to the…
Deutsche Oper Berlin: Urmelchen Mao and Putin Hitler do the honors
Permanent sensory overload: director duo Hauen und Steching produce a lot of hot air. Photo: Thomas Aurin The ideas of the 19th century and their implementation in the 20th –…
Workers’ literature: Berlin Blues: The struggles on shift
No blues for Elvis: “The GDR was a good state for wheel of fortune watchers, but not quite as good for wheel of fortune spinners,” writes Glasses. Foto: Imago//Everett Collection…
Deutsches Theater Berlin: “Everything’s wrong!”
Sometimes the great artist is just a big ass. Photo: Thomas Aurin A hunchbacked little man in a red sweater sits on the stage, a doll in a wheelchair; around…
European Football Championship 2024: Frankfurt in turmoil: “The English are here”
The mood in the stadium quickly reached an unexpected low because the English team remained extremely pale. In the city the English celebrated as usual. Photo: imago/David Klein If you…