Gerhard Richter Festival
The 80-year old master artist captures German life, love, death and history
Berlin is celebrating a great German painter. Works of Gerhard Richter, who recently turned 80, are being shown simultaneously at three different Berlin venues, and long [...]
Georg Stefan Troller – A Mentsch
He studies his interlocutor intensively with warm, alert brown eyes. He speaks with a deep, clear voice in a charming Viennese accent. Georg Stefan Troller is 90 years old. He is a witness to history, an author, a journalist, a fi lmmaker, and a humanitarian. He is of [...]
The Chicken Soup Connection
Truth be told, what Alexa Karolinski really wanted to do was write a cookbook. The scrumptious cooking of her grandmother Regina was something she could remember from earliest childhood. The grown-up Alexa became a filmmaker, however, so perhaps it makes perfect sense [...]
Russian Kitchen Yiddishkeit in Germany
Jewish culture between interdependences and uniqueness
Jewish cultural life in Germany appears to be sealed off. Memorials and speeches, police controls and klezmer music festivals; Jewish life in Germany takes place behind security checks and [...]
Hitting Home in Berlin
Ben Jaimen perks up his Berlin audience
A sensitive young Jewish artist entertains more than half a million Berliners with his music, playing at the Brandenburg Gate – not so long ago, Jews and Germans alike might have had trouble imagining that [...]