“Historically, a state bankruptcy is nothing unusual”
WORLD: Today we are seeing signs of a new banking crisis, there is inflation, and at the same time the state is mobilizing new...
Miss Marple and the censorship
So now Agatha Christie is being revised for the contemporary reader who no longer wants to endure ethnic stereotypes, jokes about Jewish names and...
My hours of desperation in the electric car
Error says the display. In bright red. And it says: reconnect. It's 8:04 p.m. on March 11, I'm standing at a charging station in...
Homeless in Habeck's authoritarian state
Faithful unto death are only fools. Loyalty has its limits in the mind, said the diplomat Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, who, as a master of...
How Tetris brought down the Soviet Union
American novelist Thomas Pynchon is the great chronicler of the counterculture. There is a strange scene in his novel Against the Day. It describes...
The image of humanity behind it leads directly into the abyss
Anke Engelke used to be very funny. Today she is walking through Hamburg with the actor Bjarne Mädel for an environmental program on SWR...
How private television wants to survive in the streaming age
We stream, therefore we are - the two large private television groups ProSiebenSat.1 and RTL want to put their energy into the development of...
“We faced death every day”
WORLD: Musicians and bands who had to mourn the deaths of colleagues paid tribute to them like Bruce Springsteen or the Rolling Stones in...
She paints what worries people
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...
This instrument has never been as valuable as it is today
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...
BREAKING NEWS
Nederland verkoopt grond aan België: Weert wordt kleiner
Na bijna 200 jaar zal een stuk Limburgs weiland op Belgisch grondgebied definitief van België worden. Oorspronkelijk behoorde dit stuk land tot Nederland, maar...
