“The future is not binary”: On the necessity of wishing
After all, everyone benefits from a diverse, free and creative community. Photo: AdobeStock/MARTIN WEIBEL The fact that queer and transphobia is real is not only shown in the hate and…
Surrealism in Belgium: “Art is demobilized, it’s about living”
Embarrassed banished to a separate room? Paul Delvaux, »Pygmalion«, 1939 Photo: © Foundation Paul Delvaux, Sint-Idesbald – Sabam Belgium In his 1926 work “Paysan de Paris” (Parisian Country Life), Louis…
Two years of war in Ukraine: War in Ukraine: “Steppes were plowed up”
The steppe on the Kinburn Peninsula, currently controlled by Russian troops, before the outbreak of war Photo: image Mr. Tyestov, it was recently reported that oil products polluted the Nemyshlya…
Lunar Missions: End of Celestial Tranquility
The “Space Treaty” of 1967 does not regulate the exploitation of extraterrestrial resources – here imagined by an AI. Photo: Adobe Stock/Alan Luk While for most people the quiet evening…
Talke Talks: American Angst | nd-aktuell.de
Anyone who buys an alarm system should not suffer from stupidity in addition to anxiety. Photo: imago/imagebroker Howdy from Texas, dear readers, When the Spaniard Pedro Almodóvar filmed “Women on…
Ansgar Mohnkern: Criticism of football: Too decided against a draw
Distorted relationships: Football doesn’t exist without winners and losers. But does that make it a hopelessly capitalist ideology? Photo: Unsplash/Jannes Glas The German football Bundesliga was founded in 1963. Since…
History of Housing Policy: The Invention of Healthy Living
The Tuschkasten settlement in the Berlin district of Bohnsdorf is built according to the garden city principle, which the former AOK director Albert Kohns also considered ideal living. Photo: image/Sven…
Ukraine and Gaza: Culture of the Martial
Hands up! Teodor Currentzis is not allowed to conduct at the Vienna Festival (like here in Salzburg in 2019) Photo: Ernst Wukits/dpa Artists have been under suspicion ever since Plato…
Deutsches Theater Berlin: Nino Haratischwili: Nothing crackles
Das Pathos trieft: »Penthesilea: Ein Requiem« Photo: Jasmin Schuller With the Russian attack on Ukraine as well as the terror of Hamas and the subsequent invasion of Israeli troops, the…
Deutsches Theater Berlin: RAF Drama: Goodnight, History!
Overwhelming aesthetics meet unresolved history: »Ulrike Maria Stuart« Photo: Eike Walkenhorst It was almost 20 years ago that Elfriede Jelinek, one of the most eloquent writers in contemporary theater, wrote…