Eight buckets of chicken hearts – the opposite of avant -garde
Always the same does not always have to be bad. Sometimes the same thing is just good. Photo: Imago/Funke Photo Services The current cultural and music landscape is struggling on…
Queer literature – “research what you feel like – and sleep a lot!”
The gaps in the story: nobody is black or queer or both – Bourgeoise moral image in the England of the 19th century, painted by Auguste Racinet. Photo: Imago images/kharbine-tapabor…
Natascha Gangl-Ingeborg-Bachmann Prize: Literature against “End-time fascism”
The later winner Natascha Gangl at the draw of reading ceremony at the opening at the Bachmann Prize last Wednesday. Photo: dpa “The truth is reasonable for people,” is perhaps…
JVA Vechta – by post to Daniela Klette: Charge by BKA
What is allowed in the “cultural bag”? Daniela Klette on the 10th day of the trial in court, at the end of May. Photo: Imago/Noah Wedel On May 27, 2025,…
ARD documentary-“What am I?”: The cheerful pessimist Robert Lembke
Laughter, laugh, silence: Daliah Lavi and Robert Lembke Photo: SWR/MGGGERZ/Bavaria Media In a “What am I?” Show from 1971 there is a memorable scene: Prominent guest of the show is…
Energy plants-mixed Silphie: bee pasture and corn replacement
Mixed silphie in a field in Bavaria Foto: IMAGO/Imagebroker Corn was grown at around 2.5 million hectares last year, around a third of them for biogas production. Corn monocultures have…
Eye health – myopia among children: the rare look into the distance
15 percent of children in Germany at the end of primary school are short -sighted. Foto: Unsplash/Getty Images Decades ago, a “glasses queue” was still something exotic on the schoolyard.…
Gertrud Klemm – so many people, so few people
Cancelt: Gertraud Klemm was excluded after public criticism from the “Pen! Smuseum” collection. Foto: wikimedia/Photoservice Austria For the upcoming autumn autumn, the Graz Leykam-Verlag promises a “liberation”, indeed a “revelation”,…
Interview with Marcus Rediker – capitalism was created on the high seas
Up to 300 enslaved at 30 meters: Representation of the states under deck a “slave ship” around 1830 Foto: IMAGO/Heritage Images Her book “The Slave Ship” was published in the…
Psychoanalysis – from the unlocking of the illusions
Cradle psychoanalysis: Reconstruction of Sigmund Freud’s treatment room for the film »Freud« Photo: AKG/Erich Lessing In the European -speaking world we read from left to right – this applies to…