Texts against war: Our loneliness has never been more helpless
In the “Neue Wache” memorial on Unter den Linden in Berlin: the sculpture “Mother with Dead Son” by Käthe Kollwitz, who herself lost a son in the First World War…
Photo exhibition: Galerie K’ in Bremen: Naked people intoxicated
Photo: Mirow zownir/Galerie K’ Resoundingly drastic images often appear more relentless in an art context than, for example, on a cinema screen. Perhaps because the contrast between a disembodied, spiritualized…
House of World Cultures: Berliner HKW: History as a singing bowl
Vision or illusion of anti-imperialist solidarity? A question that the HKW in Berlin is currently asking itself. Photo: Hannes Wiedemann/HKW The history of the GDR’s international relations is a chapter…
Leipzig Book Fair: Do you know Kant?
Things were once again very political at the Leipzig Book Show. Photo: IMAGO/Roman Möbius The Gaza war was the topic at the Leipzig Book Fair. During the opening in the…
Henneberger Porzellan: We don’t have to hide
Delicate and elegant – a trademark of Henneberger porcelain Photo: Archive In Thuringia, the Treuhand liquidated 2,480 businesses after 1990 and often sold them off to unsympathetic investors. Unemployment followed…
Literature: What if? | nd-aktuell.de
That’s also possible: A castle wants to be told – in Weimar. Photo: dpa A World Story Day is the opposite of a World History Day. And if there is…
Musical theater: Splendor and ruckus: For a margarita with the devil
Devilish stuff? In Berlin-Neukölln people try their hand at Viennese operetta. Photo: Verena Eidel Anyone who knows the Berlin music theater collective Glanz und Krawall knows what to expect: a…
Leipzig Book Fair: Omri Boehm: A humanist
Omri Boehm during his acceptance speech at the opening event of the Leipzig Book Fair. Photo: dpa/Hendrik Schmidt The fact that activists disrupted an event at which a champion of…
Exhibition: “Heavy Metal in the GDR”: Peaked Cap and Beer Mat Democracy
On the side of the working people? The heavy metal band Asathor in the construction workers’ youth club in Magdeburg Photo: Mirko Stockmann You take the liberty: On the less…
Book Fair: Children’s books: Capitalism for the little ones
Everything is as usual at daycare: unfortunately mom or dad is coming later today. Photo: dpa/Armin Weigel Publishers are a gathering place for German scholars. For people who spend years…