On the street of the lost called Reeperbahn
Once, Klaus and Jutta are eating. A magnum of champagne is about to vomit across the table. Given the environment she was placed in, she is very understandable. Whereby the environment does not only...
Her father was an alcoholic and she was raped when she was 12
Of course, Pamela: A Love Story is not a documentary like Netflix claims. It's an image film for Pamela Anderson. Or, as she puts it: her story in her own words. Anderson wants narrative...
And the young partisan dreams of his distant home village, Sobibór
The pastor is skeptical. In the middle of the night, “the Polish army” stands in front of his door in the form of two torn men and demands entry. “I don't know, I don't...
What opera needs to attract young people
Young people in the constantly sold-out hall. Enthusiasm for new things. Pupil to student laboratory experiments with stage practice. Performances of all kinds and party atmosphere. This is the exemplary Opera Forward Festival at...
journalists on behalf of the government
You can subscribe to this podcast on Spotify, iTunes, Podimo and Soundcloud. Or directly via RSS feed.Federal ministries have given around 1.5 million euros to journalists in recent years. According to a disclosure that...
Ralf Ludwig becomes the new MDR director
The previous administrative director of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR), Ralf Ludwig, will become the new director of the ARD station. The MDR Broadcasting Council elected Ludwig on Monday in Leipzig for a term of six...
Joshua Kimmich and the horror grumbler
Actually, Hackl's parents probably meant well that they had their boy baptized not only Johann, but also Bonifaz at some point in the early fifties. Bonifaz is one, at least that's what the encyclopedia...
There is Russian oligarch money in “Top Gun”.
It's the story that the American film academy likes to see in the headlines as it gallops to the Oscars: The red carpet in Los Angeles has been rolled out – but it's not...
What Karl Marx would have thought about the four-day week
The new proletariat are those who still have to work on Fridays. At least in Berlin, the cycle paths, subways and the Springer canteen are significantly emptier on the last day of the traditional...
The dream of all Wagner traditionalists
When greed, disgrace and shame at the end of the second act of “Götterdämmerung” decide the hero's death, I couldn't stand it any longer. It was very clear which interpretation it should be: the...