Red pencil, Rosa Praunheim – and coming out was done faster
One can hardly overestimate how much the comic artist Ralf König, who was born in 1960 in Soest in Westphalia and now lives in Cologne, has contributed with his witty, popular works to making...
Now relax the culture war
Peter Stein said that every theater director must stage a Chekhov every five years. Unlike many of his colleagues, Thomas Ostermeier comes close. "The Seagull" celebrated its premiere at the Berlin Schaubühne. He had...
The secret of all Spielberg films in one film
The word "player" means actor in Yiddish, and "play" can mean a speech or a play. Names are important in Steven Spielberg's new film, which is about his own family. Here it is called...
The Romeo and Juliet Effect
When the movie "Titanic" came out, I was eight and, like every girl in my elementary school class, I was madly in love with its then 23-year-old main character. By law, this romance could...
“We are not in a feel-good competition”
Roland Weißmann has been the general director of the largest Austrian media company, the ORF, for a good year. Weißmann, who started out as a journalist at the radio station in 1995 and then...
“I never let myself be taken over by any side”
TV presenter Linda Zervakis (47) has rejected criticism of her public appearances for the federal government and emphasized her journalistic independence. "As a freelance presenter, I was and am not only working for German...
Who populated the Federal Republic with cephalopods
Basel, where it is most noble. Unspoilt squares, narrow streets through which the humanistic spirit wafts like an eternal promise. A few steps to the Minster. A few steps to the former gallery of...
An architect and a gentleman
“Confident without being overbearing.” This is how architect David Chipperfield is described by Tom Pritzker, chairman of the Hyatt Foundation, which annually awards what is considered the Nobel Prize in architecture: the Pritzker Prize....
The King of the Republic of Letters
There are no more like him. And if it still existed, it would go largely unnoticed. The self-confident intellectuality, the not infrequently narcissistic eloquence that Walter Jens displayed using all rhetorical waters, in our...
When Antoine de Saint-Exupéry survived four plane crashes
phew! A breakdown. In the Sahara of all places. “Something broke on my engine. And since I had neither a mechanic nor passengers with me, I set about the difficult repair all by myself....