Without fracture there can be no ossification
Benjamin Zibner / Suhrkamp
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Steffen Mau
In "Unequally United", sociologist Steffen Mau examines why East Germany remains different
It's all nonsense here!
Axel Timo Purr
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Winfried Weiser
Subjective comments on the 48th Days of German-Language Literature 2024 in Klagenfurt
Rain mixed with snowflakes
Albanian State Archive
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Ismail Kadare 1990
One of Europe's last great storytellers has died. Ismail Kadaré chronicled a future of a past, with a mastery of language so crystalline it could cut like a scalpel
Poetry Piano Painting
Bernd Böhner
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Judith Bokodi, Stefan Grosser, Michaela Halt
The city and the couple
How to get to the theory
Donat Bräm
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Mario Bernet
On the anatomy of the happy football fan
Reality as conjecture
Lorraine Kinnear
Tlotlo Tsamaase's Afro-futuristic dystopia "Womb City" is a furious amalgam of "Minority Report" and cyberpunk classics, but then emancipates itself as confidently as its post-feminist heroine
Who’s telling the story now?
Christoph Rütimann
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Zsuzsanna Gahse
Authors who narrate in the first person are not necessarily talking from their own perspective. How and from which perspective do our favourite authors tell their stories? The best way to find out is to invite them to talk to us in person
If you fail, don't despair: blame the weather and the referee!
Alexandru Vakulovski
EURO 2024 is likely to show once again that the professions of referee and literary critic have more in common than some might think
The seed of shame
Ngabo Karegeya
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Lise Nova Berwadushime
Shedding light on some strange manifestations of shame in Rwandan society