The Left: Gysi: “If anything, then be Chancellor”
Questions for Gregor Gysi: Has he ever smoked weed? What is life like as a single person? What does football mean to him? Foto: Imago/Photothek/Xander Heinl Imagine the two of…
Obituary: Erika Runge: Say what is
Erika Runge looks into and out of everyday life: among people in the café Photo: IMAGO/Matthias Reichelt Years ago, a former friend gave me a narrow yellow Suhrkamp volume: “Women.…
“Conditionally defensively broad”: Carlo Masala: Germany should be ready for war again
Where will the Bundeswehr be heading soon? Photo: Imago/Wedel Rough times provoke nightmares. How long will it be before there is a war cabinet in Germany? Camouflage suit instead of…
Climate collapse: after us the flood
Instead of stopping their environmentally damaging behavior, the super-rich take survival courses to practice how they can start fires “the day after” and survive the environmental collapse. Foto: picture alliance/dpa/Christoph…
Features/Cinema: Film “Holy Shit”: Shit, piss, poop
On behalf of enlightenment, director Abruña follows poop around the world. Photo: Thurn Film The New York filmmaker Rubén Abruña is clearly aware that the subject of his film must…
Disney’s animated film “Wish”: “Wish”: Which wishes can become reality?
Asha and King Magnifico: The king collects the wishes as glittering, floating balls in the castle tower. Photo: alliance/dpa/Disney Wishes can come true if people fight to make them come…
Theater: “Death Drive” at the Volksbühne Berlin: Stop Hating Sense!
Is lack of interest in the context of action also a partiality for futility? Photo: Apollonia T. Bitzan The dead sit in the front row: skeletons from the anatomical collection…
Performance in the Museum: Art for a World at War
Nightmare of war: Meredith Monk performs “Quarry” in New York in 1976. Photo: Nat Tileston The theater of the future takes place in Munich, a city with several city theaters,…
“The Possibility of Happiness”: Trauma and Ideology
Because everyone was supposed to pull together, individualism was not a encouraged trait in GDR education. Children’s group in Berlin-Mahlsdorf, 1971 Foto: akg/picture alliance/ZB/Wilfried Glienke In her autobiographical debut novel…
Jean Dujardin: Drama “On the Way” in the cinema: The reconquest of freedom
For Pierre (Jean Dujardin), the hike is primarily a journey to himself. Photo: © 2021-Radar Films-La Production Dujardin-TF1 Studio-X Distribution Eight meters was enough to break my ribs, my vertebrae…