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
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
Susan Sontag, the great American intellectual of the 20th century, had a complicated relationship with women. She loved women without coming out as a lesbian. She was with star photographer Annie Leibovitz from the late 1980s until her death in 2004, but they didn’t officially know each other. Sontag loved women but preferred to write … Read more
Forty-six-year-old writer Mieko Kawakami became famous for her novel Breasts and Eggs. Even Haruki Murakami, the living legend of Japanese literature, praised her for him. “I will never forget the feeling of utter amazement when I first read the novel,” he noted at the time. In her homeland, Kawakami won the most important literary awards, … Read more
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lou Doillon and many personalities paid tribute to the singer and actress during a ceremony broadcast live in the streets of Paris. It is barely nine o’clock in the morning and already the voice of Jane Birkin and her most emblematic songs resound in the streets of the first arrondissement of Paris. On … Read more
The dramatization of the Czech bestseller, for which author Kateřina Tučková also won the State Prize for Literature, was to have its premiere at the Slovak National Theater on April 1. But the game was stopped during rehearsals. The story of Bílá Voda concerns the status of nuns of one church order and is set … Read more
Four Germans were arrested in connection with the daring theft of a rare batch of coins from oror Celts from a Bavarian museum in November 2022, some of which were likely melted down, authorities said July 20. The men, between the ages of 42 and 50 and with long suspected burglary records, were arrested the … Read more
The novelist must be eclipsed behind the pages. This could be the “artistic mantra” of the elusive, elusive and brilliant Milan Kundera, the Czech writer who mixed the comic and the heartbreaking, the serious and the light, reason and nonsense, as only his idolized Kafka did. The author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a … Read more
Karlovy Vary continues to present the highlights of this year’s cinematography. The less watched festival prize, the Palme d’Or in Cannes, France, the month before last, was won by a woman only for the third time. In Anatomy of a Fall, director Justine Trietová thoughtfully combines family and court drama. It shows that when a … Read more
One of the biggest blockbusters in the world, the Indiana Jones series has reached its fifth film: Dial of Destiny. Fifteen years later, the film marks the grand return of one of the most popular characters in Hollywood history. Harrison Ford was and still is the hero of this Steven Spielberg film. Ford was in … Read more