Obituary: Erika Runge: Say what is
Erika Runge looks into and out of everyday life: among people in the café Photo: IMAGO/Matthias Reichelt Years ago, a former friend gave me a narrow yellow Suhrkamp volume: “Women.…
“Conditionally defensively broad”: Carlo Masala: Germany should be ready for war again
Where will the Bundeswehr be heading soon? Photo: Imago/Wedel Rough times provoke nightmares. How long will it be before there is a war cabinet in Germany? Camouflage suit instead of…
Climate collapse: after us the flood
Instead of stopping their environmentally damaging behavior, the super-rich take survival courses to practice how they can start fires “the day after” and survive the environmental collapse. Foto: picture alliance/dpa/Christoph…
Features/Cinema: Film “Holy Shit”: Shit, piss, poop
On behalf of enlightenment, director Abruña follows poop around the world. Photo: Thurn Film The New York filmmaker Rubén Abruña is clearly aware that the subject of his film must…
Disney’s animated film “Wish”: “Wish”: Which wishes can become reality?
Asha and King Magnifico: The king collects the wishes as glittering, floating balls in the castle tower. Photo: alliance/dpa/Disney Wishes can come true if people fight to make them come…
Theater: “Death Drive” at the Volksbühne Berlin: Stop Hating Sense!
Is lack of interest in the context of action also a partiality for futility? Photo: Apollonia T. Bitzan The dead sit in the front row: skeletons from the anatomical collection…
Performance in the Museum: Art for a World at War
Nightmare of war: Meredith Monk performs “Quarry” in New York in 1976. Photo: Nat Tileston The theater of the future takes place in Munich, a city with several city theaters,…
“The Possibility of Happiness”: Trauma and Ideology
Because everyone was supposed to pull together, individualism was not a encouraged trait in GDR education. Children’s group in Berlin-Mahlsdorf, 1971 Foto: akg/picture alliance/ZB/Wilfried Glienke In her autobiographical debut novel…
Jean Dujardin: Drama “On the Way” in the cinema: The reconquest of freedom
For Pierre (Jean Dujardin), the hike is primarily a journey to himself. Photo: © 2021-Radar Films-La Production Dujardin-TF1 Studio-X Distribution Eight meters was enough to break my ribs, my vertebrae…
Features/Holocaust: Author Elena Chouzouri: The truth behind the silence
In memory of the Jewish victims of the deportation from Thessaloniki to the Nazi concentration camps, numerous citizens come to the train station every year (here on March 17, 2019).…