Waldorf schools – Rudolf Steiner and I
In the best case, you take it with a humor: “Downs folds, lower brains and think of Rudolf Steiner.” Foto: picrute alliance/dpa/Sebastian Gollnow I did my Abitur at a Waldorf…
Ella Carina Werner – Feminist poetry in Baggy Pants
The rooster in permanent stimulation when there is something to explain again. It just doesn’t interest anyone. Photo: istock/luamduum So now a volume of poem by Ella Carina Werner. The…
AfD – Rügen: blue like the sea
Not a self -administered youth center, but at least sea views: Prora on Rügen Foto: picture alliance/Stefan Sauer Live where others go on vacation. » With this and similar sayings,…
Prices for fiction and non -fiction book – book fair in Leipzig: Best neutral
Hopefully Esther Dischereit will not think too much about the award. Photo: dpa / Arne Dedert For book prices, it is usually more interesting to ask who was closer to…
Günter Benser – an integral person
Prof. Dr. Günter Benser at the Leipzig Book Fair Photo: Imago/Seeliger “Of course I was wondering,” recalls Günter Benser of the dramatic, stormy weeks and months 1989/90, “whether it makes…
Crimes of the Wehrmacht – “Feuerdörfer”: an unbearable book
Over 9000 villages and settlements were destroyed by the Germans. Photo: archive It is impossible to read this book in one go. Like a novel or a non -fiction book,…
Leipzig Book Fair – Unserved and Unsungen
Rescue into the unknown, in the stranger: the children’s transport Foto: imago/United Archives International This book is very up -to -date! Wolfgang Benz writes in the foreword to “Exile”, which…
Christian Kracht – what kind of world is that?
But a romantic, somehow: Christian Kracht Photo: dpa One becomes aware when the publisher Christian Krachten new book “Air” praises as a “novel from the spirit of a radical romance”.…
Leonard Cohen – unlike the others
Ein poetischer Prophet: »There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.« Photo: dpa The quality of his texts, its beautiful and touching melodies – a lot of…
Neuruppin-Aequinox Festival: old music, new savings commissioners
A gratifying constant in a turbulent time: the Aequinox Festival in Neuruppin Photo: Marcus Lieberenz/Bildbuehne.de If you can celebrate an anniversary twice, that’s actually a nice thing. Even if you…