When authors are permitted to ask themselves a question and then also provide the answer, this is often more revealing than a long autobiography. Tobias Wenzel and Carolin Seeliger invited 77 writers to talk to themselves and recorded these soliloquies....
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We've been online since March 1, 2005, delivering a daily press review of the German language feuilletons. Starting in October, we will only be able to provide a weekly summary, "From the Feuilletons," and two rather than three full-length articles per week.
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: Liane Sellerer and Luky Zappatta in Edgar Kraus' and Markus Kleinhans' "Tödliche Verbindungen")
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: Marie Zielcke in Simon Groß' "Fata Morgana")
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #13, 1978. Courtesy Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin)
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Let's talk European! Towards a European public sphere. Over 50 chief editors and editors from all over Central Eastern Europe and beyond discussed in Prague from 15-16 June how Europe's most pressing questions could be debated across the continent. How can international media networks be extended? Read the summary of the conference here.
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In co-operation with the Goethe-Institute Amsterdam, Post Amsterdam and Dare2Connect, signandsight.com presented "Let's Talk European!" a panel discussion on the European public sphere. The event, moderated by journalist Hans Maarten van den Brink, featured Endre B. Bojtar of the Hungarian Magyar Narancs, Gerbert van Loenen of the Dutch Trouw, Arne Ruth, former chief editor of Dagens Nyheter and Arno Widmann, of the Frankfurter Rundschau. We give the text of the evening's discussion.
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: Georg Petel, "Crucifix", 1621. Ivory. Private Collection. Courtesy haus der kunst, Munich)
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In co-operation with the Goethe-Institute Amsterdam, Post Amsterdam and Dare2Connect, signandsight.com will present "Let's Talk European!" a panel discussion on the European public sphere. The event, moderated by journalist Hans Maarten van den Brink, features Endre B. Bojtar, editor-in-chief of the Hungarian weekly paper Magyar Narancs, Gerbert van Loenen, deputy chief editor of the Dutch daily Trouw, Arne Ruth, former chief editor of the Swedish Dagens Nyheter and Arno Widmann, head of the Feuilleton and Media section at the Frankfurter Rundschau.
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: Douglas Gordon, "Feature Film," from the exhibition "Between Darkness and Light" at the Kunstmuseum in Wolfsburg. Courtesy the artist)
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: Scene from "4 Elemente - 4 Jahreszeiten," a choreographic concert at Berlin's RadialSystem V, April 27 - 29)
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: From the "Go East" festival of East European film in Wiesbaden)
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: Giovanni Anceschi, Struttura Tricroma, 1963. At the "Op Art" exhibition in Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle)
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signandsight.com is pleased
to announce that our comments function is finally up and running...
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: Stine Fischer Christensen in "After the Wedding" by Susanne Bier)
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: "Lights in the Dusk," new film by Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki. Sputnik Oy films)
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Two new developments at our website! A new layout for signandsight.com and a legal victory for perlentaucher.de.
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On Saturday, October 7, signandsight.com took part in a panel discussion at the Frankfurt Book Fair on the state of translation in the globalised world. The event, hosted by media specialist Rüdiger Wischenbart, featured Esther Allen, compiler of an eye-opening study on translation and today's book industry; Susan Harris of Words without Borders; Anne-Bitt Gerecke of Litrix.de; and Thierry Chervel, founder of signandsight.com's sister site Perlentaucher.de. We present the gist of the discussion.
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: "insideout". Choreographic installation by Sasha Waltz at RadialSystemV in Berlin. Image © André Rival)
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: Pablo Picasso, The Dancer Sada Yacco, 1900. Courtesy Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt)
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: Jörg Sambeth in Sabine Gisiger's documentary "Gambit" on the 1976 dioxin explosion in the Icmesa factory in the Northern Italian village of Seveso)
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: Peter Allen and Carla Ross Allen, KnoWear, Courtesy Zeche Zollverein)
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In co-operation with Litrix.de and the Frankfurt Book Fair signandsight.com presents a discussion on world literature in the digital age with Esther Allen, Thierry Chervel, Anne-Bitt Gerecke, Susan Harris and Rüdiger Wischenbart. On Saturday, October 7 in the International Centre of the Frankfurt Book Fair. (Image: Frankfurt Book Fair/Hirth)
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We wanted to know who our readers are, where they live, what they like
about signandsight.com and what they think could be improved. We had lots of reponses from all over the globe.
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: Stephan Balkenhol, Mann with a Green Shirt. Courtesy Kunsthalle Baden-Baden)
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: Anonymous, street scene in Tokyo's Ginza district, 1938. Courtesy Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin)
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: Loretta Pflaum in "Schläfer" by Benjamin Heisenberg)
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In co-operation with 2006 PEN WORLD VOICES, signandsight.com presents a discussion on "The Limits of Tolerance" with Pascal Bruckner, Necla Kelek, Dubravka Ugresic, Richard Rodriguez and moderated by Kwame Anthony Appiah. On Friday April 28 in the New York Public Library.
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: Christaine Paul in Ralf Huettner's "Reine Formsache")
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On March 15, signandsight.com celebrated one year online.
Read the feedback we've received from some of the prominent international writers featured on the site.
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From art and architecture to film, dance and theatre, a selection of what's on in the German speaking countries. (Image: Aneta Grzesykowska, Album, 2005. Courtesy 4th berlin biennial for contemporary art)
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