Why We Should Give Less Importance to Polls in Thuringia, Saxony, and Brandenburg Elections

Why We Should Give Less Importance to Polls in Thuringia, Saxony, and Brandenburg Elections

Everyone acts as if Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg had already fallen to the AfD. Perhaps it would be better to give less importance to polls. Culinary ruin is also close Photo: Wolfgang Kumm/dpa Eight years ago today it was said: “Donald Trump wins again. The Republican, who was unpopular in his party, achieved important victories … Read more

The Devil’s Bath: Film Directors Discuss Depiction of Historical Murder Case

The Devil’s Bath: Film Directors Discuss Depiction of Historical Murder Case

In the film “Des Teufels Bad” a woman becomes a murderer. Directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala say she became a victim of her living conditions. Guided by mutual trust: Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala have made a visually stunning film Photo: Wolfgang Borrs taz: Ms. Franz, Mr. Fiala, you came across the material for … Read more

Berlin Partial Repeat Election: Dramatic Defeat for SPD, Drop in Voter Turnout, and Overall Electoral District Results

Berlin Partial Repeat Election: Dramatic Defeat for SPD, Drop in Voter Turnout, and Overall Electoral District Results

In the repeat election, the SPD will lose more than a third of its votes compared to 2021. The Greens remain constant. Voter turnout drops significantly. Despite a large lead from the 2021 election, Michael Müller (SPD) can only very narrowly defend his mandate in Berlin Photo: Christoph Soeder/dpa BERLIN taz | A severe defeat … Read more

Ghost Ride: A Socially Critical Look at the Delivery Service Industry in the New ‘Tatort’ Crime Thriller

Ghost Ride: A Socially Critical Look at the Delivery Service Industry in the New ‘Tatort’ Crime Thriller

The last “crime scene” with Florence Kasumba is not a classic crime thriller. Rather, it is a socially critical look at the delivery service industry. Ghost ride: Charlotte Lindholm (Maria Furtwängler) and Anaïs Schmitz (Florence Kasumba) investigate the delivery service industry Photo: Christine Schröder/NDR Last weekend at a birthday party in Berlin-Neukölln. Suddenly it’s a … Read more

Business Associations Storming Against EU Supply Chain Law: FDP Blocks Law Despite Strong Support from Companies

Business Associations Storming Against EU Supply Chain Law: FDP Blocks Law Despite Strong Support from Companies

Business associations are storming against the EU supply chain law, the FDP wants to prevent it. Many companies are in favor of a strong law. A woman works in a textile factory. The churches have called on the government to approve the EU supply chain law Photo: Dominik Butzmann/laif LEIPZIG taz | Shipping companies worth … Read more

Berlin’s Relationship Scandal: Insights into the Prime Minister and Education Senator’s Controversial Ties

Berlin’s Relationship Scandal: Insights into the Prime Minister and Education Senator’s Controversial Ties

The relationship between Prime Minister Wegner and the Senator for Education concerns many people far more than Berlin’s actual problems – unfortunately. Two Senate members who have more in common than their CDU party membership: Education Senator Günther-Wünsch and Prime Minister Wegner Photo: dpa The press room in the Red Town Hall was nowhere near … Read more

The Austerity Paradox: Why Countries Shying Away from Debt End Up Losing Money

The Austerity Paradox: Why Countries Shying Away from Debt End Up Losing Money

Countries that shy away from debt end up with no more money in their coffers. The opposite is the case: investments become tax revenue. Gave the austerity paradox its name and would be quite old by now: the old British economist John Maynard Keynes Photo: xLIFE Picture Collection/Pond5/imago Which country did better? Italy’s national debt … Read more

Berlin Senate Plans to Spend Billions on District Heating Network despite Budget Shortfall

Berlin Senate Plans to Spend Billions on District Heating Network despite Budget Shortfall

Black-red wants to continue a red-green-red project and spend billions on it. There is already a 4 billion hole in the new house budget. That won’t be enough to buy and convert Vattenfall’s district heating network. The Senate wants to do this with loans Photo: dpa Some things just leave you speechless. Just last week, … Read more

World Climate Conference, CDU Leader Merz, and Federal Government Policies: Saving the World is a Long Time Coming, but a Dortmund Striker Gives Hope

World Climate Conference, CDU Leader Merz, and Federal Government Policies: Saving the World is a Long Time Coming, but a Dortmund Striker Gives Hope

The results of the World Climate Conference, the policies of the federal government and CDU leader Merz: saving the world is a long time coming. But a Dortmund striker gives hope. Monster tackle: Niklas Süle in his rescue act against Kylian Mbappé Photo: Teresa Kroeger/rhr-foto/imago No, the world wasn’t saved this week either. Nearly. The … Read more

Documentary film “The cinema is us”: There used to be more politics

Documentary film “The cinema is us”: There used to be more politics

Livia Theuer’s documentary film “We are the cinema” takes a very contemporary look at the history of alternative cinema in Germany. There was a lot of discussion. The Kassel film shop in 1982 Photo: Filmdisposition Wessel What Heiner Müller once suggested as a thought experiment for theaters, namely that they would have to be closed … Read more