200th birthday: Beethoven’s Ninth: Coffee house music goes boom, boom
How it all began: The bound “Manuscript of the Symphony No. 9 by the composer L. van Beethoven” Photo: dpa On May 7, 1824, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in D minor,…
85th birthday: Writer Volker Braun: The doubter
“Poetry is the antidote of ceremonies, of formal constraints.” – Volker Braun, here 2003 Photo: Isolde Ohlbaum It was shortly before Volker Braun’s most recent milestone birthday when the editorial…
Bundesliga: 1. FC Union Berlin: Hardly any hope after the debacle against Bochum
Devastated: 1. FC Union Berlin is the big loser of the 32nd matchday. Photo: imago/Jan Huebner The captain was speechless: “I have no explanation for it,” said Rani Khedira about…
Women’s Basketball Bundesliga: Alba’s basketball players celebrate championship titles until late into the night
Two years after promotion, Alba Berlin’s basketball players celebrated their first championship title. Photo: dpa/Andreas Gora Lena Gohlisch is not just the captain of the Alba Berlin basketball team. She…
Bundesliga: RB Leipzig footballers close to relegation
Julia Pollak (l.) and her Leipzig soccer players first had to get used to the rigors of the Bundesliga. Relegation now awaits against 1. FC Nürnberg around Madeleine Steck (M.).…
Bundesliga: 1. FC Union loses in the relegation battle against Bochum
Rani Khedira and 1. FC Union Berlin were no match for the Bochum guests around Matus Bero (above) in the relegation battle on Sunday. Photo: imago/Jan Huebner An old motto…
»Le Nozze di Figaro«: Komische Oper Berlin: Do you understand fun?
A strong stage design shows both those up there and us down there. Photo: Monika Rittershaus Director’s theater versus “historical” performance, a hundred years after Otto Klemperer’s commitment to the…
Art and Politics: Pirna Sculpture Summer: “Our view has changed”
View of the replica of the Reichstag in a Russian forest: film still from a video work from 2019 that is part of “Recapitulate”. Photo: Juliane Jaschnow This year you…
Relegation battle: Football: The sun sets in the east
Man with charisma on Dynamo’s coaching bench: Ulf Kirsten (l.) is Dresden’s last hope in the fight for promotion. Photo: image/Kruczynski In the football language, which is rich in images,…
Tropical forests: Illegal road construction: harbingers of deforestation
Roads through untouched forests are often a gateway for logging. Photo: imageBROKER/Florian Kopp Forests offer rich economic potential from which people benefit intensively. This happens in Europe with so-called commercial…