It can get tricky discussing the new book by an older, well-deserved writer. Should you take a critical look at it like all other new releases? Didn’t that seem inappropriate, somehow embarrassing? On the other hand, if you didn’t do it, you would give the impression that you no longer take the author fully just […]
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Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s novel “More beautiful than ever”: irony and average misery
Hans-Ulrich Treichel is one of those lucky writers who found their life’s theme at an early age. At Treichel it is his own way out of the common people milieu into the academic middle class, which he tells in surprising new ways. Self-ironic and poetically impressive novels were created on this autobiographical humus. “Anatolin” (2008), […]
Hollywood: wonderfully unpredictable
The party is over, the last guests are leaving. Gretta, too, slowly descends the stairs. Shortly after the landing, she pauses and turns her gaze upwards. A song that sounds pulls you back into the past, into your youth. Time stands still … It’s “The Lass of Aughrim,” an old Irish tune. It’s about a […]
Latin American Theater: Gossip and Gossip Stories
It was police violence with a system: Targeted shots on the heads of the protesters and tear gas fired from a very short distance caused severe eye injuries to 352 people in Santiago de Chile in autumn 2019. During emergency operations, the ophthalmologist Carmen Torres found more than 60 bullets of live ammunition in the […]
Lucky Luke for his 75th birthday: purple cows
The idea of dedicating an homage series to the “lonesome cowboy” Lucky Luke, one of the most popular characters in comic history, on his 75th birthday has a charm. It remains to be seen whether the respective design will also look charming and not just intentional and hybrid. One danger is the simple repetition of […]
Intellectual: The Prophet of the Complex
In very old age the contemporary witness often grows beyond the thinker. The French sociologist Edgar Morin escapes this fate all the less since, at the age of 100 today, he continues to appear cheerfully in panel and television discussions. He speaks vividly of his political awakening after the Parisian right wing march with thirty […]
“Annette” opens Cannes: Drama on the Côte d’Azur
The hall gets dark, the film starts, but the image on the screen remains black. Instead, a man’s voice speaks, English with a French accent. It demands absolute attention and silence, total concentration on the show that is about to start. “Even breathing cannot be tolerated,” she says. “Take another breath before you start.” And […]
Interview with Ralf Rangnick: “National coach should be a full-time job”
Ralf Rangnick explains why he enjoys the Italians and Danes at the European Championships, which strategic mistakes weakened the DFB-Elf – and which lessons German football should learn. Milan, Chelsea, Schalke, Frankfurt, German national team – when coaches or sports directors were recently sought in top football, Ralf Rangnick often came into conversation. In the […]
European Football Championship: Italy reached the final at Wembley
The almost indomitable Italians danced wildly through Wembley in the end, coach Roberto Mancini was sweaty and without a jacket right in the middle of it. Then everyone sang together for the injured Leonardo Spinazzola. In one magical night, Italy overthrew the next giant and is now dreaming of the final triumph at the European […]
Basketball: Anything but pineapple
In the past few days, the people in charge of the FC Bayern basketball team have of course been gleefully exploiting the pizza story. Even if name jokes run the risk of not being particularly witty. But this one also had a false bottom. The story goes something like this: Bayern coach Andrea Trinchieri and […]