Dramaturgie im zeitgenössischen Tanz ist ? positiv gemeint ? ein heißes Eisen. Idealerweise sind Dramaturginnen und Dramaturgen während der Erarbeitung eines Stücks die besten Freunde der Choreografen.
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In 1969 a leftist militant group planted a bomb in the Jewish
Community Centre in Berlin. An isolated incident? Or did a "leftist
anti-Semitism" exist among the German 68ers? And why is the whole issue
being dealt with so hesitantly? Philipp Gessler and Stefan Reinecke
interview Tilman Fichter, former SDS head and brother of
Albert Fichter, who planted the bomb.
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Guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Korea presented a lively mix emphasising both tradition and
transformation. In the absence of North Korea, politics was blended out and culture did the talking. By Andreas
Breitenstein
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Prospect bemoans the decline of the theatre critic. In Reportajes, Mario Vargas Llosa praises cultural life in bankrupt Berlin. Umberto Eco explains in L'Espresso the difference between bullshit and balderdash. The New Yorker writes a portrait of architect Santiago Calatrava. Adam Zagajewski tells in Plus-Minus what life in Paris is like for a poet. In The Guardian, Ian McEwan looks forward to a new edition of Peter Schneider's "The Wall Jumper". Al-Ahram hopes the Nobel Prize for Harold Pinter will give Egyptian intellectuals more gumption. The Spectator looks at Russia's death throes. And in Le Point, Regis Debray sees nothing but pyschosis and perversion in theatre today.
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Thomas Ostermeier, director at Berlin's Schaubühne, has staged "Hedda Gabler". Henrik Ibsen, he says, has a lot to say about the world as we know it: morally improverished, metaphysically empty but not without hope.
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Walking, walking, walking. Projekt Migration is an extensive exhibition with film and music programmes telling the story of migration from the perspective of those in motion. By Katrin Bettina Müller
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Korea is the featured country at this year's Book Fair in Frankfurt. Poet Hwang Chi Woo, head of the Korean delegation, reflects on the difference between the visual culture of Europe and the sensual culture of Korea. Where he comes from, Western aesthetic categories simply don't apply.
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Sengalese writer and journalist Boubacar Boris Diop describes the combination of pain, shame and anger that he feels looking at the images of utter desperation that are coming out of the Spanish exclaves Ceuta and Melilla.
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Helena Waldmann is the first female director from the West to have been invited to work in Iran. The result of her project "Letters from Tentland" is now touring Europe. An interview with Sylvia Staude.
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In the heated debate over Turkey's entry into the EU, something is being forgotten: the fact that the two continents are within spitting distance of each other. And that Europe in its current form would not exist were it not for the Middle East. By Hilal Sezgin
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In the New York Review of Books, Timothy Garton Ash admires Iranian women's bikinis. Le Monde diplomatique delves into the origins of language. In Plus-Minus, philosopher Wojciech Sadurski hopes for a United States of Europe. The Spectator hates the Blairpop of Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand and all such wimps. The London Review of Books reads in Andrew Bacevich how Americans love their military but refuse to serve in it. In Le Point, Mario Vargas Llosa wishes for a French Tony Blair.
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The country in focus at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair is Korea. Katharina Borchardt takes a look at the abundance of recently translated works and discovers a literature full of contrast and in the midst of change.
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The time of the master thinkers is over. Or so they say. Italian
philosopher Giorgio Agamben is a beacon for an entire generation of
young intellectuals across Europe. Every epoch
gets the fashion philosophy it deserves. By Daniel Binswanger
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For three years, Portugese author and journalist Paulo Moura has focussed his reportages on the plight of African refugees in Morocco. Using literary means, he seeks to go deeper than news reports. An interview with Christa Hager.
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Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker has written a new book of prose, "And I shook a darling", haunted by the ghost of her life-long companion Ernst Jandl, who died in 2000. By Christina Weiss
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Lettre publishes excerpts from the essays of the seven finalists for the Lettre Ulysses Award. In Radar, the poet Silvina Ocampo explains how the song of the little ape is the most pleasing of all. Gazeta Wyborcza considers the relationship between Belarus and Europe. In Polityka, Dorota Maslowska describes her trip to Moscow. In Du magazine, Sybille Lewitscharoff considers the work of the devil in modernity. And Weltwoche offers a portrait of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Prospect magazine's list of the world's top 100 public intellectuals speaks tellingly about the provincialism of today's global media, but says nothing about the ideas behind today's global world. By Arno Widmann
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Marx said, the point is to change the world. It's a philosophy that Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa has lived to the full. The Deutsche Architektur Zentrum in Berlin is currently showing showing a selection of his dynamic work. By Ronald Berg
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In L'Express, Salman Rushdie explains why Indian left-wing intellectuals have branded him an Islamic separatist on the Kashmir issue. Holmi celebrates Janos Terey's drama "The Nibelung Subdivision". In the Guardian, playwright Tom Stoppard visits his colleagues in Belarus where a chasm opens between form and content. In Literaturen, Michael Frayn confesses his lazy reading habits. And the Economist hopes for a grand coalition on the scale of Kurt Kiesinger and Willy Brandt.
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Just when the old gags about the Germans were really starting to wear thin, the German media go and launch a full-scale positive-thinking campaign to try to get the people to pull their weight. Harald Jähner unwittingly witnessed the "Du bist Deutschland!" (you are Germany!) advert on TV, and had to pinch himself to check he wasn't dreaming.
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