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. more
Three stories from Saturday's feuilletons deal with imported Turkish brides, the astonishing number of books translated into German and how becoming a film star can change how you see yourself. On Monday, Vladimir Kaminer gives his take on immigration, Marina Schubarth tells a sleuth story of searching archives for documentation on forced labourers, Niklas Maak writes on the surprising lightness of Bavarian post-war architecture and Jürgen Ritte critiques integration policy in France.
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Articles today cover the rise of the blog and the "honour killing" of women in Berlin.
There is some staunch defending of the Berlin school with 99 percent
"non German" children and a scathing attack on the isolationism of the
European Left. The sister of Sophie Scholl is interviewed, as is the
director of the film "Goebbels-Experiment".
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Yin Luchuan gives new life to Chinese
literature, Claus Spahn is disappointed by Katharina Wagner's new
opera, Joachim Güntner reviews the RAF's menage a trois, Barbara
Schweizerhof analyses the new wave of German Heimat films, Narvid
Kermani critiques European foreign policy in the Middle East, and
Regina Mönch discusses a possible role for Germany in reconciling
Turkey and Armenia.
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More talk today about Suhrkamp's failure to hold on to Imre Kertesz, the
Gerhard Richter exhibition in Dusseldorf and the impending cuts to Berlin's
opera heritage. The taz reviews a new study on Rudi Dutschke which
credits him with the invention of the urban guerilla. The NZZ enthuses
about the exhibition in Hamburg of drawings from the Spanish masters.
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Can we prevent young East Germans from falling into the clutches of the
far right? Why was Peter Suhrkamp's life spared under Hitler and why is
Imre Kertesz leaving Suhrkamp today? What is prompting Poles to dig up
their communist past and how did Hunter S. Thompson invent Gonzo
journalism?
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On Saturday, Richard Wagner reviewed Mihail Sebastian's wartime
journal, Michaela Schlagenwerth talked with ballet star Vladimir
Malakhov, Hans Holzhaider related a torture threat in Frankfurt to
Kantian ethics, and Verena Lueken defended Berlinale film festival
director Dieter Kosslick against blase critics. Today there is a roundup of the
Berlinale, Beat Wyss remembers the great art curator Harald Szeemann and Frank
Schirrmacher takes a gloomy look at German demographic trends.
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