Construction of the Elbe Philharmonic is underway, with its opening planned for autumn, 2011. Hamburg?s creative artists are not alone in seeing a new landmark for their city in this spectacular concert hall....
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So what was 1968? It was when the children of German mass murderers ran after mass murderer Mao Tsedong, says historian and ex-Maoist Götz Aly. Absolutely not, says educationalist and author Katharina Rutschky: The practice of dispelling fascism in the kindergarten was far more important than ideology. Stefan Reinecke and Jan Feddersen preside over a full-blown row.
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Thirty years ago, the kidnapping of German industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer by the Red Army Faction signalled the beginning of the Deutscher Herbst, the highpoint of German terrorism. Arno Widmann looks back on the culture of violence in the 1970s.
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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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From right wing fraternities to the red dawn of Marxism. In his short life, the charismatic student revolutionary Hans-Jürgen Krahl went from the far right to the far left. A biographical sketch by Gerd Koenen.
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