Opera as a film ǀ THE ARME SAILOR, hammer murderer splatter – Friday

The three-part house of Mainfranken Theater Würzburg had the short opera for the end of January The poor sailor by Darius Milhaud (supplemented with a few works and excerpts from Beethoven, Schubert and Shostakovich; because the half-hour short opera would have been far too short for an evening filler) are in the premiere calendar. Nothing … Read more

Foreign policy ǀ Sanctions against Russia justified? – Friday

When Putin and Lukashenko last met in Sochi, the Russian holiday resort on the Black Sea coast, the EU foreign ministers again discussed possible sanctions against Russia in Brussels. With the decision on new punitive measures, the EU is reacting again to the ongoing human rights violations. But this time the EU wants to take … Read more

Corona in Russia ǀ Russia and the “Corona man-eater” – Friday

You can get your vaccination appointment in Russia by phone or on the portal „Gosuslugi ”(State Services), on which meanwhile over 100 million Russians are registered. In addition to the possibility of registering for a dose of “Sputnik V”, everything that has to do with the state is represented on the platform. Embedded media content … Read more

Home schooling ǀ “Homeschooling” and its pitfalls – Friday

All hardware and software problems bring frustration to the fore in many households. In Baden-Württemberg, however, the path to digitization is not only particularly rocky in times of digital home schooling, but also before that there were countless problems and obstacles. Two years ago, the Minister of Education, Susanne Eisenmann (CDU), had to bury the … Read more

Literature ǀ Smallpox versus Pearls – Friday

The founding of Montreal: a story of coureurs des bois Embedded media content It’s in Montreal royal mountain. As the Canadian landscape brands began to be given European names, some got rich on the pearls of the other, while pearl divers died from smallpox introduced by colonizers. Frauke Buchholz recalls this in her novel Frostmond. … Read more

Cinema and Politics ǀ Retrospective For Filmmaker Philip Scheffner g – Friday

“Will it be a film about temples?” The Indian consular officer asks the filmmaker, who comes to him for a filming permit. “No, it’s more of a ghost story,” he replies from behind the camera. Cut: An idyllic river with trees concretizes from a milky, misted surface, while a male voice sings to the crackling … Read more