Levensstijl

Anke Engelke used to be very funny. Today she is walking through Hamburg with the actor Bjarne Mädel for an environmental program on SWR entitled “We can also do it differently”. Both of them...

It's wild, and that's the way it has to be. “Pirates” have been captured and are greeted on the island of Lesbos by naked women with castration tools. It is a slaughter and a...

Daniil Trifonov and all the other world's greatest pianists may have to be very strong now if, as is likely, they don't already know it. Johann Sebastian Bach had no room at all for...

A few years ago, Joy Williams, revered for her short stories in the US, was asked to speak to students about her craft. The gaunt older lady – Williams is now 79 – then...

For a long time, Japanese cinema thrived on the fame of its heroes. Subsequent generations had a hard time stepping out of the shadows of Kurosawa, Ozu, and Miyazaki. Hirokazu Kore-eda has made it,...

There came a moment when I felt downright disgusted by the presence of my cell phone in the bedroom. For years it had been on my bedside table as an alarm clock, then on...

Herbert Grönemeyer, who released his new album "Das ist los" on Friday, continued: "The East no longer exists separately, at least not for me. We are one country, 16 federal states in Europe, that's...

Lana Del Rey is no longer writing hits, she's making records, and "Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd" (Universal) is the quietest LP in a long time. Many of the...

There is a wonderful music video, maybe it's the most wonderful music video ever. Old people dance together, it moves you to tears. Behind them, on the wall, you see pictures, you see what...

Herbert Grönemeyer celebrates his new album deep in the west of Berlin, in a fine restaurant that used to be a prison, a women's prison. The walls and the bars are still there like...