The best series of the week
With the large number of new releases and sequels on Netflix, Amazon and Co., it is easy to lose track. What's worth it? What can you leave behind? Here are our picks of the...
The woman with the crazy peacock
Isabel Bogdan is the woman for the absurd. In order to do something "crazy", as she says herself, she studied Japanese and English after school. She then earned her money with technical translations or...
The man without whom Cate Blanchett would never have conducted
There are a few reasons to check out “Tár” though. The sci-fi film in which Cate Blanchett plays a conductor who rose to the top of the Berlin Philharmonic and was nominated for six...
"There are dreams that are only meant for a single person"
She has played almost everything on screen, from Pope Joan to terrorist, and now Johanna Wokalek is working in a Berlin theater for the first time. We meet the 48-year-old actress in the canteen...
"And my stomach has to disappear into the shadows, right?"
He was always considered a child prodigy, a youthful genius. Even one of his first radio plays, "War of the Worlds", staged as an exciting direct report on an invasion by Martians, is said...
Marion Horn becomes the new chairwoman of the "Bild" editors-in-chief
The Axel Springer media group (to which WELT also belongs) is reorganizing the editor-in-chief of “Bild”. Marion Horn will take over the chairmanship of the editors-in-chief of the "Bild" group with immediate effect, and...
Under a false name for the SPD – “Handelsblatt” puts editor on leave
An SPD member in the Pankow district of Berlin has apparently committed himself to the party under a false name. This became public after the deputy chairman of an SPD department, who calls himself...
"Cultural vandalism"? The BBC abolishes its choir
country without music That's what people liked to call Britain polemically, because from a world music perspective, nothing significant happened between Henry Purcell (died 1697) and Benjamin Britten (born 1913) in the Empire, which...
The failure of art due to artificial intelligence
You see them here and there now. Meet her in Baden-Baden, meet her in Stuttgart. She sits stiffly, blinks her eyes, pretends to look after people and people say 'oops'. “Oops”, it is currently...
"And then what. And what else. And what also"
In the spring of 2015, Richard Wagner called his last prose book “Mr. Parkinson”. He was not on first name terms with the illness he had suffered from since 2003, and he knew he...