America: Series “After the Assassination”: On the hunt
Risen from Ruins: The United States at the End of the Civil War Photo: Apple TV+ If we don’t draw a line against the president’s murderers, then… Or should we…
Literature: Daniel Dubbe: Is he serious?
A placeholder for the guys who are or were or want to be guys: neighborhood bar on Hamburg’s Reeperbahn Photo: imago/Hoch Zwei Stock/Angerer Daniel Dubbe actually completed his autofictional Hamburg…
Literature: Hearts on the table
“This reading is about an active attitude, an expression of solidarity,” says Munich author Slata Roschal Photo: dpa Given the spiral of violence in the Middle East, how can we…
Marine biology: Mysterious creatures from the deep sea
This newly discovered species in the deep sea could belong to the octocorals. Foto: NIWA/OCEAN CENSUS Sadie Mills During a three-week expedition, researchers discovered a hundred potentially new animal species…
“The Threepenny Opera”: Braunschweig State Theater: 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…
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…