Modern Jazz – Relaxed Concentration
Guitar grooves, as flowing as possible: Jeff Parker Photo: imago/Votes-Roland Owsnitzki Two live albums, once by a quartet that assumes productive self-limitation, and once by an ensemble that beams away…
Cabaret Prize – Egersdörfer: In the pleasant surf of madness
“Dead ends are very important,” says Matthias Egersdörfer. Photo: imago/HMB-Media Egersdörfer, with whom I am friends – it is appropriate to say this in advance – and who have written…
New in the cinema: Veni Vidi Vici – sausages, hear the signals!
Mass murder out of boredom, fun for the whole family in “Veni Vidi Vici”. Photo: Grandfilm During Donald Trump’s first campaign as a presidential candidate, he announced in one of…
Capital of Culture 2025 – Chemnitz: City of secret mechanics
The light art festival “Light our Vision,” which also alienated the Karl Marx Monument, offered a foretaste of how Chemnitz wants to present itself as the European Capital of Culture.…
Munich 1972 – When the countdown starts
Unbelievable: Sports reporters are extremely tense during the hostage drama in Munich. Photo: Constantin Film/Jürgen Olczyk Right at the beginning of your new film it is mentioned that a camera…
Film “We live in Time” – The unbearable timelessness of memory
Almut’s (Florence Pugh) fate brings tears of joy and sorrow to your eyes, but it never becomes touching. Photo: © Peter Mountain Why not start the new year with a…
Careers – The Grace of Audience Abuse
The young writer as a pop star: Peter Handke strolls through the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1973. Photo: dpa In the literary regions that are gradually drying out, only a…
Yugoslavia Wars – Football in Yugoslavia: Killing the Game
Even when Yugoslavia was broken, Dragan Stojković (l.) continued to play for a smaller country that was still called that. In 1997, Hungary was defeated in the relegation World Cup…
Munich 1972 – What happened happens again and again
Unbelievable: Sports reporters are extremely tense during the hostage drama in Munich. Photo: Constantin Film/Jürgen Olczyk Right at the beginning of your new film it is mentioned that a camera…
Misogyny – El Hotzo and Thilo Mischke: Men and their hypocrisy
A television award winner who shouldn’t be on television: Thilo Mischke when he appeared in 2023 for his Afghanistan report “Abandoned and Forgotten?” Afghanistan in the Grip of the Taliban«…