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
All the papers comment on a report by British journalist David Litchfield on the involvement of Margit von Batthyany - daughter of the German industrialist Thyssen family - in the World War II Rechnitz massacre. The taz sheds light on the difficult relationship between East German dramatist Heiner Müller and his West German politician father. And Die Zeit has heard Mark Andre's penetrating, sensual, anti-eloquent music at the Donaueschingen Musiktage.
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The FAZ enters caverns of the uncanny at the Courbet exhibition in Paris. Polish journalist Adam Krzeminski analyses how his government plays the history card. The taz sticks Grass moustaches on Chinese Communists as the great man turns 80. The Greeks emphasize the empty spaces to turn the screw on the British Museum. And in a production in Dresden, Woyzeck has joined the far-right.
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A literary leviathan of a week! What with the Frankfurt Book Fair, the German Book Prize and of course the Nobel Prize for Literature. Not to mention the first full German translation of Vassily Grossman's 1000-page epic of "Life and Fate" under Stalin.
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Russian satirist Viktor Shenderovich describes the deathly stability under Putin. Amitav Ghosh expresses his faith in the Burmese monks. The Rugby World Cup has French philosophers weak at the knees. Günter Grass would do it all again, but not with the FAZ. Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke says his country is building its future at the price of its past. And Robert Wilson has introduced Japanese horror manga to the Threepenny Opera.
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