Obituary: Alice Munro: Isolated, ordinary
A great storyteller Photo: dpa/epa/Derek Shapman She was the mother of four daughters, one of whom died shortly after birth. Alice Munro had to wrest time from her feminine duties…
Basketball Bundesliga: Alba Berlin before the start of the BBL playoffs: Don’t underestimate any opponent
Berlin’s Jonas Mattisseck (r.) doesn’t want to underestimate the Bonn team around Glynn Watson Photo: image/Photo mode Malte Delow had known that his former coach would appear in Alba Berlin’s…
Dr. Schmidt explains the world: Carbon concrete: Light and does not rust
Recently there was news that the first public building in Germany was opening in Dresden Carbonbeton arises. A sports hall. What is carbon concrete? This is a concrete in which…
Wall mosaics: “Facade art in prefabricated buildings”: cosmonauts and ornaments
Mosaic on the facade of a building in Tashkent, by Alexander Jarsky, 1985 Photo: © Philipp Meuser The best place to create something new, beautiful and useful is where there…
»Laios«: Berlin Theatertreffen: Lina Beckmann makes full use of her art
Fills the large, almost empty space completely in this solo evening: Lina Beckmann. Photo: © Thomas Aurin Sure, we know him: Oedipus. Kills his father, sleeps with his mother. Both…
»Nightwatch«: »Demons are Forever«: freak show on the screen
Psychopaths smear themselves with blood, bang their heads against safety glass and laugh maniacally incessantly. Foto: capelight pictures When you see the first “Nightwatch” film again, you immediately feel nostalgic.…
Film: “On Dry Grass”: Normally frustrated with life
Teacher Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) struggles with his fate, but it’s always someone else’s fault. Photo: ©eksystent Filmverleih If anything should characterize our trained lives as precisely as possible, then it…
Volleyball Nations League: Volleyball players with Olympic dreams: Don’t feel like doing constant math
Anna Pogany (r.) and Lena Stigrot still believe in their last chance to qualify for the Summer Games in Paris. Photo: image/Newspix It wasn’t even eleven months ago that the…
Fun and responsibility: In the garden
Fun and responsibility Olga Hohmann doesn’t understand what work is and tries to find out every day. Sitting in her placeless office, she explores her biography and is amused by…
The good column: Contemporary German cinema
Please “out” now: Corinna Harfouch and Lars Eidinger in a scene from the film “Die”. Photo: dpa Where everyone lives in huge, modernized old apartments in Berlin or Hamburg, where…