Metal: Phantom Winter: The Metal Niche
This is what doom metal from Würzburg looks like Photo: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 4.0/Daniela Hütter Metal that doesn’t fit in at folk festivals like Wacken, but also doesn’t want to be…
Features/Theater: Achim Freyer: Abyssal high and sky-low
Achim Freyer, an excellent artist. Here at the award ceremony for the German Theater Prize Der Faust 2022 Foto: IMAGO/Future Image/Kai Schulz The expressive pops, the surreal ghosts, the cubist…
The Doors: 80 years of Jim Morrison: boneless dog
Jim Morrison was one of the most important representatives of USA counterculture of his time. Photo: dpa »We were born into this house, we were thrown into this world. Like…
East-West conflict: Lausitz Festival: Imported happiness accelerator | nd-aktuell.de
Is this what a UFO looks like that landed in Lusatia? Premiere of “Antigone Neuropa” in Cottbus at the Lausitz Festival 2020 (under Corona conditions). Photo: IMAGO/Rainer Weisflog It is…
Rambazamba Theater: Aeoricircus: “The Oracle can do me!”
When the carnival spectacle is given space, some of the performers develop a joy in playing. Photo: phillip twenty The audience is in the dark. Just a spotlight creates a…
Energy transition: A second life for electric car batteries
Used electric car batteries can still be useful off the road. Photo: dpa/Julian Stratenschulte Almost 49 million cars are currently on Germany’s roads – according to the Statista database, there…
Series: Lennon documentary: Beatles murder does not expire
The aesthetic of mourning Lennon is reminiscent of Diana’s death. Two equally big shock moments for the pop world. Foto: imago/Kamerapress The Beatles song “Now and then” is probably still…
Novel: “Life of a Dancer”: Living and Dying in the Bohemian Era
A new question for women in new roles in the 1920s: How does one become a “genius of life”? Photo: imago/Gemini The earth was created so that she, Lena Amsel,…
Temur Babluani: “Sun, Moon and Cornfield”: Fever and Survival
There are moon and sun, but where are the cornfields? Photo: dpa Temur Babluani was previously known in this country as a filmmaker; in 1993 he won the Silver Bear…
»How To Have Sex«: »How To Have Sex« in the cinema: instructions for being unhappy
Skimpy clothes, bright colors, false eyelashes, real hunger for life: Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake and Enva Lewis in “How to Have Sex” Photo: capelight pictures/Nikolopoulos Nikos Getting up when it’s…