The list of experts who should reform ARD and ZDF
Public broadcasting is to be reformed – and a “Future Council” is to help media politicians in the federal states. The broadcasting commission of...
Suddenly no one could remain neutral
The latest news from the Wiesbaden Netrebko front: The now controversial soprano is allowed to perform there. At the start of the May Festival,...
The social nonchalance of Los Angeles
Sometimes art goes where it hurts: in uncomfortable environments, characterized by homelessness, heterogeneous. Like Downtown Los Angeles. The young gallery owner Allison Littrell has...
"Get the fixed costs down further" – Hessischer Rundfunk is cutting jobs
The Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) wants to reduce staff in the next few years. Director Florian Hager told the German Press Agency: "The number of...
Ines Geipel receives the Loest Prize – and criticizes her critics
February 24th is not only the day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is also the birthday of the Leipzig writer Erich Loest...
Hundreds of US media cancel Dilbert creators after racist statements
The creator of the comic strip "Dilbert" is facing a spate of terminations after defending his statements calling black people members of a "hate...
First comes the grumbling, then the moral
Oasch. says Moritz. Everything pretty oash. He's pretty grumpy anyway. Like someone whose time is running out, who no longer understands time. "That's it,"...
Why the painter star Peter Doig is leaving his German gallery owner
Peter Doig is considered one of the most important contemporary painters. His figurative, expressive paintings are often based on photographs. The Scotsman, who lived...
Longing for the royal drama
When Rainald Goetz published "Johann Holtrop" in 2012, this great social novel was itself a retrospective. Just as Hegel's owl Minerva begins its flight...
Why 1,000 New York Times employees accuse transphobia
After a scandal surrounding a guest post that led to internal and external protests and the resignation of its opinion leader James Bennet in...