Archive for ‘Society’

‘We Have to Be Awake’

Interview

Rescued From the Nazis

Reviving Mendelssohn

Germany provokes anger over museum to refugees who fled Poland during WWII

Germany has provoked anger in Poland over plans to build a museum dedicated to German refugees who fled or were expelled from Poland after the Second World War.

A New Context for the Holocaust

Internet porn is changing German sex lives

The internet is fueling change to the ways in which Germans have sex, according to a survey, as increased viewing of pornography makes people less inhibited.

Obama Wows Them in Europe

Cheering throngs in Berlin but also some doubts he can live up to the great expectations

Gerhard Buck

The iMac as Bauhaus’s progeny

What can an arts movement that shaped the machine-age 20th century offer to the high-tech 21st? Ideas that could prove just as vital in our own time

Historic Revival

Periscope

There’s no escaping war at Berlinale

Story of concentration camp counterfeiters among festival's best