Why cinema can't handle Honoré de Balzac
Good Balzac readers know that they can skip 20 pages with a clear conscience. Cosmopolitanism sets in everywhere with this novelist, so an occasional,...
Those were my best concerts of 2022
It's early in the morning. Berlin Schoenefeld. Everything is still dark outside. I sleepily walk onto the plane, listening to Diana Ross' "Touch me...
When you can't forget sex in paradise
My partner ended our relationship when everyone was talking about the second lockdown, on the absurd grounds that he was still thinking about his...
Eight alternatives to Netflix that many do not know
In the automotive industry, in food, in book publishers: everywhere it took decades for a functioning market with many suppliers to become oligopolies, where...
The next wave of invasion
Hear our triumph, in our roar, we're gonna drink a barrel or much, much more is a line in a typically violent end-of-the-year classic...
This man explodes the fears of the new middle
At some point the man can't take it anymore. Can't stand these people anymore. The people who drive their kids to school in hybrid...
Claudia Roth's approach appears primarily populist
Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth proposed renaming the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK). Roth did not say what name the umbrella organization...
Das Geheimnis der Annie Ernaux
This woman definitely needs a room to herself. Virginia Woolf coined this expression as a metaphor par excellence for the intellectually creative, writing woman:...
The Agatha Christie likeness winner has been announced
The Germans have a tremendous longing for Britishness, as has been shown again in this year, which is rather sad in this context. In...
How the Ukrainian Brezhnev has shaped the Russian myth of Crimea to this day
A huge "heroes' monument" is now located in Novorossiysk of all places. Because Brezhnev, as head of state, not only named Moscow and Minsk...