Berlinale: Province as the norm | nd-aktuell.de
Andrea (Birgit Minichmayr) wants to move from the village to the small town – but her husband quite literally thwarts her plans. Photo: Wegafilm If you look at the extensive…
Against the wars: War in Ukraine – pictures with flowers
Chamomile, 2022, oil on canvas, 200x200cm Photo: Yury Kharchenko Flowers? I wondered. Are pictures with flowers the topic that landed me after my superheroes in front of the concentration camp?…
Ezzes by Estis: Jewish Joke
Famous for feature-length Jewish humor: The comedian, director and actor Mel Brooks makes an audience of millions and himself laugh. Photo: dpa The Christian doesn’t laugh. Have you read anywhere…
Berlinale: armpit hair at Rapunzel length: “Teaches of Peaches”
Interviews from the bathtub? No problem for Peaches. Foto: © Bell Media Inc Is that music? Performance art? And what kind of texts are these anyway? When Peaches, real name…
Two years of war in Ukraine: Series “In Her Car”: Four square meters of hope
Tetyana is desperate. Will Lydia (Anastasia Karpenko, right) get her in time to say goodbye to her grandson? Photo: ZDF/Roman Lisovsky Cars are the perfect chamber venues. At the same…
Dresden: Erich Kästner: Reading was like taking a breath
The boy Erich Kästner couldn’t get enough of Dresden – and became a monument. Photo: Heidi Diehl The boy sits with his legs dangling on the wall that surrounds the…
Ahab’s Left Leg: This is the deep sea blues
Is this perhaps called “Maritime Desert Rock”? Photo: Danny Kötter The sea is blue – blue like the blues. A style of music that you don’t initially associate with seafaring,…
Queer Cinema: Teddy Award: Tick and Click
What’s up? Lothar Lambert doesn’t want fairy tales or crime novels. Photo: Jan Gympel This Friday, Berlin film director Lothar Lambert will receive the Special Teddy Award at the Volksbühne…
Berlinale: “I cried for 15 minutes”
Finally back in the old homeland – Benin bronzes stolen by France Foto: The Ball Films – Fanta Sy The display cases are slowly emptying. Large wooden statues are dismantled,…
Review: The Humanism of Insects
They are almost like people: two stag beetles Lucanus cervus fight for their territory. Photo: image/imageBROKER/Sven-Erik Arndt Castle ruins, wafts of fog, cobwebs, black cats, bats – images like these…