He outraged the German Jewish community with polemics about the Holocaust. German writer Martin Walser died at the age of 96. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported about it with reference to his loved ones. The winner of the Georg Büchner Prize has developed into one of the most important, but also the most controversial, authors of … Read more
Leon Weintraub fascinates his listeners in the Audimax on the campus of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. It’s not just students, but also many “older semesters” who follow the lecture of the 97-year-old doctor spellbound and in silence. Weintraub, who was awarded the Paracelsus Medal a few days ago at the German Doctors’ Day … Read more
When Alena Mornštajnová writes a new book, it makes no sense to ask what leads the sales chart. A three-hundred-page novel called The Forest in the House topped the charts just last week, just after its release. It is a joyless narrative, a walk through the valley of shadows, from where the footpath does not … Read more