He, a French comic artist, is a guest at the boarding house where she, a young South Korean woman, works. They meet in the freezing cold of Sokcho, a coastal town just outside of North Korea. The story of their relationship is told in clear, concentrated language. Awarded the Robert
In memory of the friend, author, Germanist, cultural historian, documentary filmmaker, director of the Peter-Weiss-Stiftung für Kunst und Politik e.V. [executing agency of the international literary festivals in Berlin and Odessa], who died in 2021, and whose great services, especially his recognition of the Armenian genocide as director of the
Along with historical digressions, quotations from Chinese classics and essayistic passages, this major political novel about contemporary China shows the development of individual characters in the resistance, but also criticizes European capitalism and Western arrogance. »The novel shows what it can mean to continue to hold on to hope for
With anger, clear-sightedness, and a keen understanding of the complexity of the subject, two authors write about sexual violence, its effects, and the social structures that enable it. Monika Fagerholm’s novel »Who Killed Bambi?«, which won the Nordic Council Prize for Literature, tells of a gang rape in a posh
Mit welchen militärischen Maßnahmen muss der Krieg Russlands in der Ukraine seitens der westlichen Staatengemeinschaft begegnet werden? Können die von Russland militärisch besetzen Gebiete zurückerobert werden? Wenn ja: wie? Sind die Lieferung schwerer Waffen und das Definieren einer Flugverbotszone tatsächlich fahrlässige Maßnahmen, die automatisch eine weitere Eskalation provozieren oder muss
The latest graphic novel by the Belgian artist depicts the explosion of a NASA rocket after launch. Because of the supposed terrorist context, alert level 5 is then triggered, which means complete isolation from the outside world for a team of five astronauts on Mars. The pressure pushes everyone involved
Long before the war in Ukraine and before the Beijing Winter Olympics, the »rock-solid« friendship [Xi Jinping, February 4, 2022] between China and Russia was thriving. In a bilateral event held since 2018 by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Moscow-based think tank Russian International Affairs Council, Wang
Bellingcat ist ein 2014 gegründetes internationales Recherchekollektiv, das Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit und internationale Konflikte thematisiert – so den durch russisches Militär herbeigeführten Absturz des Flugzeuges MH17, die Ermordung Oppositioneller in Russland oder den Einsatz von russischen Streubomben in Syrien und der Ukraine. Der Rechercheverbund NDR, WDR, Süddeutsche Zeitung ist
In her debut, the August Prize winner condenses the biographies of the forty remaining inhabitants of a forest village in Värmland, Sweden, into a moving, compelling hymn to ordinary people. »›Osebol‹ bears witness to ordinary lives. It gives us, unmediated, the voices of people who are usually unheard and invites
Über Themen wie Rassismus, Kolonialismus, Staatszugehörigkeit, soziale Bewegungen insbesondere mit Bezug zum afrikanischen Kontinent und die Dynamiken der dortigen Entwicklung sprechen die beiden Wissenschaftler:innen Glenn Loury und Joyce Nyairo mit dem Autor und Kritiker Thomas Chatterton Williams. Im Fokus wird dabei auch die Frage nach religiösen, kulturellen und ethnischen Identitäten
For 15 years, Frank starred in a western show. His role, that of the famous Marshall Jack Johnson, has become his second identity. But then he loses his job. With his severance pay and a Colt in his pocket, Frank embarks on a journey to the original locations of the
Shot in black and white and using a freeze frame device, this film poses the question of appropriate commemoration. People are shown crowding through memorials like Sachsenhausen or Dachau, but also individuals who grasp something essential about the Holocaust during their visit. »The film asks us how we formulate universally
