Thomas Mann – touching loyalty
Thomas Man with his wife Katia and his admirer Ida Herz, 1925 Photo: ETH library Zurich / Thomas-Mann Archive / Photographer: Unknown She saw him right away. Thomas Mann, who…
“The Bonnards” in the cinema – light without any shadow?
What the director tries: translating the aesthetics of Bonnard’s painting into a film about him. Foto: Prokino This director has already proven several times that he can tell unusual stories…
Film art – Klaus Wyborny becomes 80: Entropy and narrative
From sadism to sarcasm: Tilda Swinton and Hanns Zischler in “Das Open Universum” by Klaus Wyborny (1990) Photo: Klaus excellent This man is so far ahead of us that it…
Football with disabilities – the kick with the crutch
Last October Mainz 05 against Hamburger SV secured the championship title in the amputated Bundesliga. Photo: Mehmet Dedeoglu Christian Heintz dominates the high art. Let the crutches fall, throw yourself…
Football-Nations League: The DFB team wants to go to the title via Portugal
Train for the first title: The DFB team with Florian Wirtz (left) and Leroy Sané in Herzogenaurach Photo: Image/Harry Koerber The holes were stuffed on Tuesday. Some square meters of…
Kino – “The Ugly Stepsister”: Blood is in the shoe
The horror fairy tale is told from the perspective of the supposedly ugly stepsister Elvira (Lea Myren). Photo: Marcel Zyskind Breast augmentation, lip and wrinkle injection, nose and intimate correction-…
Stalin’s show processes – of loyalty and betrayal, euphoria and horror
Rudolf Slánský, Generalsecretär der KPČ (1901–1952) Foto: imago/CTK Photo A book – a risk. And this was successful. Although it is warned here in advance to use a perfidious western…
Spy – agent life: for love – and also for cash
The double agent’s son: Jürgen Tatzkow Photo: Frank Schumann/ Edition Ost Horst Tatzkow spied for the CIA for ten years before he flew in 1968 and was convicted of life…
Series – “White Lotus” and Co.: In the murderous abysses
Are series like “White Lotus” or the current Netflix production “Sirens” just a lamer expression of good-middle-class moral indignation? Foto: Cr. Macall Polay/Netflix When Devon Dewitt (Meghann Fahy) runs about…
Eurovision Song Contest – ESC without Israel? Things are more complicated
Please do not confuse with the Netanyahu government: Yuval Raphael runs with Israeli flag on the sample for the final of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel. Photo: dpa…