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Victim of early anti-Semitism: Joseph Süßkind Oppenheimer Photo: Wikipedia Stolpersteine, small brass memorial plaques, commemorate the fate of the people who were persecuted and murdered during the National Socialist era.…

“What has ruined you so much?” Frank Spilker can write really good lyrics. Photo: dpa As is well known, poetry is derived from lyre, which means that its origin lies…

“Men’s Racket” or “Brother Horde”? Bourgeois rationality personified at work Photo: dpa/Matthias Balk The study “Critique of De-sensual Reason” by the sociologist Mario Wolf is based on a contradictory simultaneity.…

Photo: unsplash/nikolai chernichenko Health is generally good for Jews. But only as long as they are not sick. That’s why they also say: gesint we a goj (healthy as a…

One heart and one soul: the twin babies from the Berlin Zoo would also delight Professor Dathe. Photo: dpa/Zoo Berlin »When the day of Pentecost came, everyone was together in…

Frank Spilker, guitarist and singer of the band Die Sternen Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Axel Heimken As is well known, poetry is derived from lyre, which means that its origin…

Max Ernst took dreaming seriously. A drawing from the “Histoire naturelle” cycle, created in 1925 Photo: Archiv der Avantgarden – Egidio Marzona, SKD, Photo: Elke Estel It has now been…

Abandoned: The working class and their work, here in Dresden-Leuben. Photo: dpa Workers’ literature has always had a difficult time in Germany, but it is now almost non-existent. At least…

Hedonism and moralism, constantly remobilized: the Simpson couple Foto: IMAGO/Everett Collection One reason why George Bush Sr. lost the election as US President to Bill Clinton in 1992 was a…

There are definitely more blinds behind these blinds. Photo: dpa The bamboo blinds have been standing behind the disused coal oven for 20 years, as long as I have lived…