Fake blood and potato salad. When the two meet, you quickly end up by name on the theatrical stage. Frank Castorf, the former boss of Berliner Volksbühne, will be 70 today, Saturday. He deeply marked the history of the theater. But what makes it so fascinating? And why the hell are the Castorfs … Fake […]
Apparently, Lyonel Feininger was unhappy. It’s hard to miss it when you look at the photo “Villa sur Seine I”. He painted it in oils on cardboard in 1907 in Paris, where he stayed for a while: a house, the river, in blue and green, spotted in an impressionist way. A genre that is not […]
Fuzhou (dpa) – Cultural and natural World Heritage sites must be better protected from Unesco’s point of view. At the start of the two-week World Heritage Committee meeting on Friday, the President of the German Commission for Unesco, Maria Böhmer, warned of threats to the 1,121 sites worldwide due to climate change, to destruction of […]
In August 2022, it will again be quite noisy in Wacken. Thousands of heavy metal fans want to party there with stars like Judas Priest or Till Lindemann. However, most of the tickets are gone. Wacken (dpa) – The next big heavy metal festival in Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein next year (4-6 August 2022) is already […]
Even though Bono’s son plays in the squad, the inhalers aren’t offshoots of U2. And they are successful: with their debut, young Irish people have taken the island charts by storm. London / Dublin (dpa) – With their debut album “It Won’t Always Be Like This”, Irish rock band Inhaler, around singer Elijah Hewson, son […]
Worms (dpa) – Martin Luther has nothing to fear tonight. 500 years after a key moment in German history, when he was supposed to revoke his teachings before the emperor and empire, the reformer won from the start the opening piece “Luther” of the Nibelungen festival in Worms – without even appearing on the stage. […]
Uff, the writer Eberhard Hilscher moaned in his diary in February 2000 after the venerable Hanser publishing house rejected the sequel to his novel “Die Weltzeituhr” (1983). “Such a Nulpen publishing house does not understand that it should have published exceptional poetry for the first time at the start of the new millennium”, … Uff, […]
The Lukas Church in the Zwickau district of Planitz occupies a special place among the churches of Schumannstadt. Located in a park on a hill not far from Planitz Castle, which today serves as a school building, the high Gothic sacred building, consecrated in 1876, had been in poor condition since 1968. After the fall […]
An opening that has it all: with the core of the festival brand “Jedermann”, with what else. And the next day a festival for everyone – with many events, no acquisition cards, just counting cards! There is something downright provocative in this prelude to the 2021 Salzburg Festival. We oppose the pandemic, which still hovers […]
Hamburg (dpa) – With a moving funeral service, family, friends and politicians said goodbye to concentration camp survivor Esther Bejarano on Sunday in Hamburg. The musician and activist died on July 10 from a short and serious illness at the age of 96 in her adopted home in Hamburg. Only a few guests were able […]
