Leipzig Book Fair: No empty years
The communists and social democrats thought about a united front against the fascists too late. They could no longer prevent the Hitler dictatorship. Photo: pholder.com If you have to look…
Comedy show: Hannah Gadsby’s “Gender Agenda”: Special content
The right people from the wrong provider. But without a streaming channel, there’s no big stage. It’s networked. Photo: Netflix When Dave Chappelle’s special “The Closer” appeared on Netflix in…
GDR modernity: Brigitte Reimann: “I won’t allow myself to be forced”
Books that are out of line: Mural for Brigitte Reimann in her birthplace Burg, Saxony-Anhalt Photo: IMAGO/imagebroker Should you publish everything that is found in the archives, especially if it…
Leipzig Book Fair: “I want a different world”
Show of solidarity by Turkish women for Pinar Selek in front of the courthouse in Istanbul Photo: dpa Bulent Doruk A woman has to survive this! To be persecuted for…
Visual arts: Werner Tübke: A potentate in his own dream realm
Werner Tübke, Sicilian landowner with puppets, 1972, Albertinum/Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Photo: © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2024 Werner Tübke, born in 1929 in Schönebeck on the Elbe, traveled to Italy in…
Bundesliga: Union Berlin: Victory against Bremen, false criticism from Nenad Bjelica
Union’s Brenden Aaronson (r.) made the difference against Bremen’s Senne Lynen. Photo: imago/Luciano Lima The atmosphere in the Alte Försterei on Saturday was reminiscent of a time not so long…
Art from Ukraine: Ukrainian Art: The Executed Renaissance
Building a new society: Oleksandr Bohomazov, “Sharpening the Saws” (1927) Photo: National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv A sketch by Kasymyr Malevych. El Lissitzky’s geometric figures. And there further ahead…
Homage: Kiev Stingl – “Death is just a trick”
Is that Kiev Stingl or Lou Reed? Photo: Archive Anyone who actually does “their thing” as an artist and doesn’t care about becoming a state-recognized cultural promoter during their lifetime,…
Series “The Gentlemen”: “The Gentlemen”: Coke noses in chicken costumes
It’s normal for British nobles to lease their land to a drug lord in “The Gentlemen.” Photo: Netflix Primogeniture is a law of feudal succession that has less to do…
Nazis and computer games: Right-wing extremist computer games: Shooting Aryans in cyberspace
Officially, the aesthetic of “The Great Rebellion” is inspired by the science fiction genre of cyberpunk. Photo: Kvltgames Computer games with racist, anti-Semitic and nationalist messages have allegedly become a…