Climate research: regime change in Antarctica
Antarctic sea ice is important for life both on it and beneath it. Foto: IMAGO/Nature Picture Library For several decades, summer ice on the Arctic Ocean has been decreasing. The…
Braunschweig State Theater: “The Threepenny Opera”: amusement park with undead
Welcome to the post-apocalypse: “The Threepenny Opera” in Braunschweig Foto: Thomas M. Jauk/Stage Picture It seems that we have arrived here with Heiner Müller’s “Hamlet Machine” in the ruins of…
Netflix series: “Supersex”: When the porn star Rocco Siffredi happens
All that’s missing are the gawking construction workers and the cliché is perfect: That’s what “super sex” is like. Photo: Netflix Rocco Tano (later Rocco Siffredi) was actually supposed to…
NATO: Yugoslavia War: Seventy-Five Murderous Days
The bridge near Varvarin, selected as a target by Bundeswehr reconnaissance flights Photo: dpa/Sasa Stankovic The first war of aggression in Europe after the Second World War was waged by…
Music: Pianist Maurizio Pollini: visionary of beauty
An outstanding performer who combined intellectuality with emotional sensitivity: Maurizio Pollini, 2016 Photo: imago/Xinhua It was in the 70s. The teenager learned one or two works by Frédéric Chopin and…
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…