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Donald Trump's ancestors came from a tiny German wine village. We asked locals what they think of the US presidential candidate - and found out that the "Drumpfs" are long ...

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The New Yorker?s long-serving managing editor, Silvia Killingsworth, will be taking over as editor of the Awl, and while she?s at it, will be in charge of a relaunch of the Hairpin. Nine writers, including Helen Garner, C. E. Morgan, and Hilton Als, received one of Yale?s Windham-Campbell Prizes this week: Always good, as the ...

Signandsight.com says good-bye
Wednesday March 28, 2012

Signandsight.com bids farewell after seven exciting and engaging years. Editors Thierry Chervel and Anja Seeliger express their thanks and say a personal good-bye to our readers - while remaining committed to the idea of a public forum dedicated to the motto Lets Talk European.

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Tuesday 27 March, 2012

The Republicans are waging a war against women, the New York Magazine declares. Perhaps it's because women are so unabashed about reading porn in public - that's according to publisher Beatriz de Moura in El Pais Semanal, at least. Polityka remembers Operation Reinhard. Tensions are growing between Poland and Hungary as Victor Orban spreads his influence, prompting ruminations on East European absurdity from both Elet es Irodalom and salon.eu.sk. Wired is keeping its eyes peeled on the only unassuming sounding Utah Data Center.

read moreLife in a bubble
Wednesday 21 March, 2012

Awarded a Silver Bear at this years Berlinale, Christian Petzolds new film Barbara is a GDR drama set in the early 1980s. Colourful and romantic beyond any nostalgia for the East, it relates the situation of female doctor caught in the circumstances of having applied for an exit visa. For Petzold, the film is not only a highly personal story of a woman in conflict but a film about what was lost - especially for women - with the fall of the Wall in 1989.

read moreWhen soft power fails the acid test
Wednesday 14 March, 2012

Western museums are opening their halls for huge state exhibitions in collaboration with non-democratic regimes. The British Museum is currently hosting an exhibition on the Hajj which is funded by Saudi Arabia and reflects the royal family's position on the ritual. Should an institution dedicated to secular learning accommodate such religiously doctrinaire exhibitions? Yes, says Malise Ruthven in the New York Review of Books blog, who evidently believes in the conciliatory effects of such cultural politics. Tagesspiegel author Nicola Kuhn sees the new Roads of Arabia exhibition in Berlin's Pergamon Museum more critically. Image © National Museum, Riyadh

read moreArt in circles
Wednesday 7 March, 2012

Frankfurt's Stdelmuseum has just opened its new subterranean contemporary art extension, the culmination of a radical overhaul of the building and its collections. Hans-Joachim Mller ventures down below the surreal domed lawn and is left to meander through a refreshingly idiosyncratic retrospective that turns its back on received ideas about the progress of art. (Image:exterior view of Stdel extension by Norbert Miguletz)

read moreNo one is indestructible
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

A precision engineer of the emotions, Peter Nadas traces the European upheavals of the past century in his colossal and epic novel Parallel Stories, which was published in English in December. The core and epicentre of the novel is the body, which bears the marks of history and trauma. In his seemingly chaotic intertwining of lives and stories, Nadas penetrates the depths of the human animal with unique insight. A review by Joachim Sartorius

read moreThis kiss for the whole world
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Who actually owns intellectual property?  The German media that defend the concept of intellectual property as real property are the first to appropriate such rights, and they are using this idea as a defensive weapon. With lawmakers extending copyright laws and new structures emerging on the internet, intellectual property poses a serious challenge to the public domain. A survey of the German media landscape by Thierry Chervel

read moreWorkers of the world, be entertained!
Monday 13 February, 2012

This years Berlinale Retrospective The Red Dream Factory rediscovers the legendary German-Russian Mezhrabpom-Film (1922-1936). It tells of incredible film successes, ideological misunderstandings and astonishing blindness. By Oksana Bulgakova

read moreRoad tripping across the ideological divide
Wednesday 1 February, 2012

The USA and the USSR should not simply be thought of as arch enemies of the Cold War. Beyond ideology, the two nations were deeply interested in one another. Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov were thrilled by the American Way of Life in 1935/6, John Steinbeck and Robert Capa praised the sheer vitality of the Russian people in 1947. Historian Karl Schlgel reviews a perfect pair of travel journals. Photo by Ilf and Petrov.

read moreLanguage without a childhood
Monday 23 January 2012

Turkish-born author, actor and director Emine Sevgi zdamar was recently awarded the Alice Salomon Prize for Poetics. Coming to West Berlin in 1965, zdamar first learned German at the age of 19. After stage school she went on to become the directorial assistant to Benno Besson and Matthias Langhoff at the Volksbhne in East Berlin while still living in West Berlin. Harald Jhner warmly lauds the authors uniquely visual sense of her acquired language and her ability to overcome the seemingly insurmountable dividing line through the city.

read moreFriendship in the time of terror
Monday 9 January 2012

Nadezhda Mandelstams personal memories of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, her intimate friend, offer a unique and moving testimony to friendship and resistance over decades of persecution. Published only after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the text is still unavailable in English but has recently been translated into German. A unique historical document, celebrating an intellectual icon in an age of horror. Portrait of Akhmatova by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin.

read moreSuddenly we know we are many
Wednesday 4th January, 2012

Why the Russian youth have tolerated the political situation in their country for so long and why they are no longer tolerant. The poet Natalia Klyuchareva explains the background to the protests on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on December 10th. Image: Leonid Faerberg

read moreThe Republic of Europe
Tuesday 20 December, 2011

Thanks to Radoslaw Sikorskis speech in Berlin, Poland has at last joined the big European debate about restructuring the EU in connection with the euro crisis. The European Reformation advocated by Germany does not mean that the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation will be established in Europe, but instead – let us hope – the Republic of Europe. By Adam Krzeminski

read moreBrown is not red
Tuesday 13 December, 2011

Filmmaker and theatre director Andres Veiel disagrees with the parallels currently being drawn between left-wing and right-wing violence in Germany. The RAF is the wrong model for the Zwickau neo-Nazi group, the so-called Brown Army Faction responsible for a series of murders of Turkish small business owners. Unlike the RAF, this group never publicly claimed responsibility for their crimes. Veiel is emphatic - you have to look at the biographies of the perpetrators. An interview with Heike Karen Runge.

read moreLegacy of denial
Tuesday 29 November, 2011

Germany has been rocked by the disclosures surrounding the series of neo-Nazi murders of Turkish citizens. In the wake of these events, Former GDR dissident Freya Klier calls for an honest look at the xenophobia cultivated by the policies of the former East Germany, where the core of the so-called Brown Army Faction was based. And demands that East Germans finally confront a long-denied past. (Photo: © Nadja Klier)

read morePoison envy
Tuesday 22 November, 2011

Read the first English excerpt from historian Goetz Aly's new book Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Equality, Envy and Racial Hatred 1800 - 1933. In response to this question that has been hanging in the air since the end of WWII, Goetz Aly points to the lack of education and fear of progress in so many German Christians at the turn of the century - and to the contrasting readiness of the Jewish population to embrace the new opportunities and education as the ticket to social mobility. Shamed by their shortcomings, the Germans soon turned to racial theory to conceal their envy and resentment.

read moreNausea in Paris
Monday 14 November, 2011

In response to the arson attack on the offices of the Parisian satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on November 2, Danish critic and semiotician Frederik Stjernfelt is nauseated by the opinions voiced against the publication, especially in the British and American media. Why dont they see that Islamism is right-wing extremism?

read morePutting the black back into Wozzeck
Tuesday 8 November, 2011

Andrea Breth has just directed Alban Bergs Wozzeck at the Staatsoper in Berlin, to substantial critical acclaim. Mid-rehearsal, she makes time to talk to Niklaus Habltzel about Bchners word compositions, why only singing beautifully can ruin everything, and the power of curtains.

read moreFunctions like DNA
Monday 31 October 2011

In 2007 the rap duo Kinderzimmer Productions disbanded with rapper Henrik von Holtum, alias MC Textor, publishing a ranting manifesto against the rap scene in the Tageszeitung. But Kinderzimmer Productions is back with a new live recording of their old songs - with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Nina Apin from the taz talks with MC Textor about rap, classical music and the question of aging gracefully.

read moreJust one pyramid
Monday 10 October, 2011

Activist and author, Andri Snaer Magnason is among the Icelandic guests of honor at this years Frankfurt Book Fair. His book and film Dreamland is both an ecological call to action and a polemic. The politicians took one of the most beautiful parts of Iceland and offered it to unscrupulous companies, says the author in a critique of his native country. By Daniela Zinser

read moreGerman Book Prize 2011 - the short list
Tuesday 4 October, 2011

Eugen Ruge has won the German Book Prize with his novel In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts (In times of fading light), an autobiographical story of an East German family. The award is presented to the best German-language novel just before the start of the Frankfurt Book Fair. Here we present this year's six shortlisted authors and exclusive English translations of excerpts from their novels.

read moreDark side of the light
Monday 3 October 2011

In their book Lgendes Licht (lying light) Thomas Worm and Claudia Karstedt explore the darker side of the EU ban on incandescent bulbs. From disposal issues to energy efficiency, the low-energy bulb is not necessarily a beacon of a greener future. By Brigitte Werneburg

read moreHokusai and the quest for perfection
Tuesday 20 September, 2011

The Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin is currently hosting Germany's first major retrospective of the legendary Japanese artist Hokusai, featuring over 430 exhibits, many of which have never left Japan before. It is hard to believe that suchincredible diversity could stem from the hand of just one artist, but it is the product of a lifetime's dedication. By Katrin Wittneven. Image: Onikojima Yataro and Saihoin Akabozu© Katsushika Hokusai Museum of Art

read moreIn the vortex of congealed time
Monday 12 September, 2011

No other European city suffered more in World War II than Leningrad under siege, when over a million people lost their lives. Russian literature delivers a rich testimony of the events which have been all but forgotten by the West. Only a few works, though, also do the disaster aesthetic justice. By Oleg Yuriev

read moreMy unrelenting vice
Tuesday 6 September 2011

In this apology for the vice of reading, Bora Cosic describes the magnificent and fantastic discoveries of one of its practitioners – revealing how texts contain what we bring to them, how we sometimes read without reading and how books are not only found in books but many other places. 

read moreLubricious puritanism
Tuesday 30 August, 2011

The malice of the American media in the case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a symptom of sexual uptightness that borders on the sinister, and the feminists have joined forces with the religious Right to see it through. We can learn much from America, but not when it comes to the art of love. By Pascal Bruckner

read moreBeyond the groove
Tuesday 19 July 2011

Searching for new sounds to take the party to new highs, club music is turning to classical and new music. Prominent techno DJs such as Carl Craig and Moritz von Oswald, Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer are working with the recordings of Deutsche Grammophon and ECM. Alexis Waltz samples some bewitchingly beautiful and psychedelically absurd results. Photo Ricardo Villalobos © Stefan Stern

read moreFrom pasta to pyrotechnics
Monday 25 July, 2011

We should be playing more and working less, according to philosopher and author Byung-Chul Han. He argues from the standpoint of Asian thinking yet is firmly rooted in the Western tradition. Ronald Dker visits Byung-Chul Han at the University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe to find out how to make our minds more supple.

read moreEditor's pickRight life in the wrong life

Update: after the resignation of Christian Wulff, meet Germanys new president. Joachim Gauck was a leading oppositional figure in the GDR. After the fall of the Wall he became the first Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Files. He talks to Joachim Gnther about Ossis and Wessis, opposition, conformism, and the long-term psychological effects of a dictatorial regime.
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Just one drop of forgetfulness

This year is the 200th anniversary of the death of German writer Heinrich von Kleist. The author Gertrud Leutenegger has a very Kleistian afternoon on Elba, when she encounters the Marquise von O in the waiting room of a very strange eye doctor.
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"We only have ourselves to draw upon"

If geniuses still exist in Germany, then Friedrich Kittler, who died at the age of 68 on 18 October, was one of them. The literary scholar and media theorist wrote as much about drugs as he did about weapons, and he was as interested in war as he was in love. One of his PhD students is a Eurofighter pilot in Afghanistan. Andreas Rosenfelder talked with him in his Berlin apartment at the beginning of the year.
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From the archiveThe quest for Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf died on 1 Dec, aged 82. Fifteen years after reunification, Christa Wolf, a prominent German writer who chose to remain in East Germany and who was later branded a state poet, talks with Hanns-Bruno Kammertns and Stephan Lebert about private chats with Honecker, a German society in check mate, the influence of Goethe, the shortcomings of Brecht, and the lasting effects of Utopia.
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The satire after the tragedy

No sooner were the fires put out than was the government reelected that bore the than Greek votersbrunt of responsibility for the tragedy. Did those who suffered so much learn no lesson from their distress? Crime writer Petros Markaris looks at why the Greeks have failed to find their way out of the political crisis rocking their country.
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"The time for philosophising is over"

Ernst Tugendhat, philosopher and critic of German pseudo-profundity, talks to Ulrike Herrmann about the fear of death, Heidegger, anti-Semitism and unfounded speculations in brain research.

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Magic and guilt

The legendary German poets, Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, met and fell in love in Vienna 1948. Their electric and torturous correspondence, which continued until 1961, has now been collected in book form for the first time. Ina Hartwig on what was probably the most complicated love story in post-war Germany.
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The source we drink from

It was only with the end of the Soviet Union that Russians got the chance to get discover their own 20th century literature. Forbidden authors like Nabokov, Mandelstam, Brodsky and Kharms became hugely popular. But until today the most enduring are the Oberiuts, a group of avant-garde poets from the 20s and 30s. By Olga Martynova
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