A blog taking you behind Hamburg's rich fortifications which you normally only see from the street: the opulent Alster villas, asylum-seeker detention centres, arty-establisment folks’ Ottensen abodes and many more places you've seen, but never dared go into ... More Info
by - May 15, 2013
Cut.ting Edge – Austrian, German and Swiss writing in translation – was published online last Saturday night, and before you read any half-baked reviews of it, you should read the… Read more…
by - April 30, 2013
He’s the consummate English tenor, no question. You can’t find fault with his voice, his repertoire, or with his careful, understated use of his body as an expressive element. There… Read more…
by - March 27, 2013
How many officers would you deploy, if you were in charge of policing an event where between 300 and 1000 demonstrators were expected, who, according to the police’s own statement,… Read more…
by - March 22, 2013
“If the Duke continues to drink himself to the point of illness then he will succumb to that illness, and will not live long, instead of, as he claims, strengthening… Read more…
by - March 13, 2013
Dante’s German: The Catharsis (2) by Michael Buselmeier. Pained-lust, chained burden, you say, you are the field of God’s graveyard world; you are of life in chewy circles of… Read more…
by - March 7, 2013
We stand together gazing at the departure board, my two unknown fellow-travellers and me, dealing with the delay of approximately 15 minutes to the train we wanted to catch…. Read more…
by - February 14, 2013
Go see this production if you like, enjoy the fin-de-siècle not-quite-decadent if you can, the officer with the handle-bar moustache greedily groping his fiancée’s servant — a mood of rich… Read more…
by - February 4, 2013
This Saturday, 9th Feb, at 8 pm, is your chance to experience an evening devoted to graphic novels, at a film & discussion evening I’m hosting. The venue? – The… Read more…
by - January 18, 2013
In one of the most unlikely cinema stories of the new year, we can exclusively reveal that leading Holywood studios are lining up to scoop the rights for a bio-pic… Read more…
by - January 3, 2013
Jette Steckel’s new production of this German classic is a buzz, a rush, a gig; Büchner’s script, one of the most astonishing products of 19th century European theatre, is… Read more…
