Above water – The Elbe is still the same
The Elbe around Magdeburg can be a pretty enchanted place – especially if you spent your childhood there. Photo: dpa/Peter Gercke The Elbe is familiar to me like no other…
Ecology – The return of the tapir to Rio
Lowland tapirs help large trees spread. Foto: IMAGO/imagebroker Tapirus terrestris means lowland tapir in German. But this largest land mammal in Latin America, which weighs up to 300 kilograms, is…
Volcanism – volcanic eruptions and climate change – huge sulfur throwers
The Tambora caldera, six kilometers in diameter, was formed in the mega-eruption of 1815 that blew away the entire top of the mountain. Photo: AFP/Nasa When the Mount Pinatubo volcano…
Netflix – “Squid Game”: In the depths of superficiality
This game “will only end when the world changes,” say the organizers. Foto: netflix Subjunctives are the spines of missed opportunities. If only I had done more sports, taken out…
Talke Talks – Gigantic minimalism
Marfa – art in the desert? Photo: NPR Howdy from Texas, dear readers,Have you seen too much of your family in the last few weeks? But instead of sending ours…
National Drinking Straw Day – Saving straw?
Photo: dpa/Hauke-Christian Dittrich »What is a human being/ If his time’s gain, his greatest good/ is only sleep and food? A beast, nothing more./ Surely he who created us with…
Rockmusik | Rod Stewart: Old school
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Misogyny – El Hotzo and Thilo Mischke: A slap in the face for the bubble
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«…
Esther Dischereit – splinters that cannot be put aside
As if she had several identities: Esther Dischereit Photo: dpa/Arne Dedert Absurd, sad, tragicomic, bizarre. These adjectives all fit Esther Dischereit’s new novel “A Pile of Dollar Bills.” An autofictional…
End of the war 1945 – The mass murderers and their victims
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial 80 years ago held those responsible for terror and genocide accountable and thus founded modern international criminal law. Foto: picture-alliance / dpa What a year!…