Education: learning world at a distance from technology
Digital learning technologies are still not used enough in German schools. Photo: dpa They are a little like the two royal children who like each other so much but can’t…
Cassette Cult: Sampler on Cassette: The Cassette Years
Enabled indie artists to become cult: the cassette Foto: Unsplash Everyone should be able to do everything. For a short time in the early 1980s, cassettes became the first medium…
Right-wing rock: Right-wing rock: “Pop culture is much more divided today than it used to be”
Punkers at Alexanderplatz: From a time when pop music still seemed to have some kind of social relevance or even had it. Photo: imago/Steinach The new »Testcard«-Output bears the simple…
Leipzig Opera: Learning Power from “Mary, Queen of Scots”
She carries heavily: Queen Mary with a magnificent cloak on her shoulders, a crown on her head and a wailing husband on her chest Photo: Tom Schulze Things were better…
Fun and responsibility: Tax office: Already paid?
Who wants to get a visit from the tax office? Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Christophe Gateau When the doorbell rang just before Christmas, I was sure it was the Amazon…
Gaza War: Desperate, gripping and enlightening
Poster in Israel showing Netanyahu with far-right politicians Photo: AFP/Thomas Coex The country may be heading towards a major war,” historian Saul Friedländer feared in May last year. And then,…
Sofia Coppola’s biopic “Priscilla”: Priscilla: The most famous supporting character
The introverted girl and the sex symbol idolized worldwide: Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla and Jacob Elordi as Elvis Foto: Imago//Landmark Media Capturing the lives of women in golden cages, their…
Emerald Fennell: “Saltburn”: Circus Sockshot
An unforgettable summer of decadence is in the making. Photo: Netflix Oliver Quick walks across the Oxford campus like a slightly disturbed incarnation of Harry Potter. Shoulders hunched, boyish face,…
Berliner Bär: Renée Sintenis: Ethereal, graceful and enlightening
The sculptor Renee Sintenis in her workshop in 1955 Photo: dpa As a fascinating star of Weimar bohemianism and a star artist in the galleries of the 1920s, Sintenis was…
Obituary: Torsun Burkhardt: The unbending one
Torsun am Raven against Germany at the Sound of Forest Festival in Beerfelden in southern Hesse Photo: IMAGO/HMB-Media Stemwede in 2011: On a sultry summer night, the conservative farming community…