New Arte TV series about the Mafia: Life under “Omertà”

New Arte TV series about the Mafia: Life under “Omertà”

The series “The Mafia Only Kills in Summer” explains Palermo in the 1970s from the perspective of a 10-year-old – with a bit of humor Salvatore Giammarresi (Edoardo Buscetta) observes a lot in his hometown When Lorenzo Giammarresi (Claudio Gioe) almost collides with a car, he sees for a brief moment a Mafioso who has … Read more

Future of boxing: Fear of Olympic elimination

Future of boxing: Fear of Olympic elimination

Boxing is in turmoil. There is talk about referees, the question of women’s eligibility and the suspended professional association. Hard blow: Hungarian Anna Hamori (r.) was still able to prevail against Gráinne Walsh Photo: imago Boxing delivers. Big stories, small dramas, epic battles and countless scandals. Anyone who takes a quick look at the Arena … Read more

Why We Should Give Less Importance to Polls in Thuringia, Saxony, and Brandenburg Elections

Why We Should Give Less Importance to Polls in Thuringia, Saxony, and Brandenburg Elections

Everyone acts as if Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg had already fallen to the AfD. Perhaps it would be better to give less importance to polls. Culinary ruin is also close Photo: Wolfgang Kumm/dpa Eight years ago today it was said: “Donald Trump wins again. The Republican, who was unpopular in his party, achieved important victories … Read more

Ghost Ride: A Socially Critical Look at the Delivery Service Industry in the New ‘Tatort’ Crime Thriller

Ghost Ride: A Socially Critical Look at the Delivery Service Industry in the New ‘Tatort’ Crime Thriller

The last “crime scene” with Florence Kasumba is not a classic crime thriller. Rather, it is a socially critical look at the delivery service industry. Ghost ride: Charlotte Lindholm (Maria Furtwängler) and Anaïs Schmitz (Florence Kasumba) investigate the delivery service industry Photo: Christine Schröder/NDR Last weekend at a birthday party in Berlin-Neukölln. Suddenly it’s a … Read more

The Austerity Paradox: Why Countries Shying Away from Debt End Up Losing Money

The Austerity Paradox: Why Countries Shying Away from Debt End Up Losing Money

Countries that shy away from debt end up with no more money in their coffers. The opposite is the case: investments become tax revenue. Gave the austerity paradox its name and would be quite old by now: the old British economist John Maynard Keynes Photo: xLIFE Picture Collection/Pond5/imago Which country did better? Italy’s national debt … Read more

Berlin Senate Plans to Spend Billions on District Heating Network despite Budget Shortfall

Berlin Senate Plans to Spend Billions on District Heating Network despite Budget Shortfall

Black-red wants to continue a red-green-red project and spend billions on it. There is already a 4 billion hole in the new house budget. That won’t be enough to buy and convert Vattenfall’s district heating network. The Senate wants to do this with loans Photo: dpa Some things just leave you speechless. Just last week, … Read more

World Climate Conference, CDU Leader Merz, and Federal Government Policies: Saving the World is a Long Time Coming, but a Dortmund Striker Gives Hope

World Climate Conference, CDU Leader Merz, and Federal Government Policies: Saving the World is a Long Time Coming, but a Dortmund Striker Gives Hope

The results of the World Climate Conference, the policies of the federal government and CDU leader Merz: saving the world is a long time coming. But a Dortmund striker gives hope. Monster tackle: Niklas Süle in his rescue act against Kylian Mbappé Photo: Teresa Kroeger/rhr-foto/imago No, the world wasn’t saved this week either. Nearly. The … Read more

A Biography of Tove Ditlevsen: Revealing the Life of a Danish Author

A Biography of Tove Ditlevsen: Revealing the Life of a Danish Author

Tove Ditlevsen led a challenging life. Now a biography worth reading has been published about the Danish author, who was discovered late in this country. Die Autorin Tove Ditlevsen 1959 Photo: imago If you could take a look from above at the entire life of Tove Ditlevsen (1917-1976), at all the roles she held, everything … Read more

Werder Bremen’s Women’s Team Triumphs with a 3-0 Victory Against 1. FC Köln: A Turning Point in Women’s Football

Werder Bremen’s Women’s Team Triumphs with a 3-0 Victory Against 1. FC Köln: A Turning Point in Women’s Football

Werder Bremen’s women clearly defeated 1. FC Köln 3-0 in front of 21,500 spectators. There had previously been two annoying defeats. Greetings to the crowded corner: Werder captain Lina Hausicke Photo: Nordphoto/Imago BREMEN taz | “Five years ago I couldn’t have imagined that we would be playing in front of 20,000 spectators,” said Birte Brüggemann, … Read more

Berlin Education Administration Takes Action Against Anti-Semitism in Schools

Berlin Education Administration Takes Action Against Anti-Semitism in Schools

The Berlin education administration strives to support schools in the fight against anti-Semitism. There have already been individual incidents. Police at a high school in Neukölln after a dispute over a Palestinian flag Photo: Jörg Carstensen/dpa BERLIN taz | Conflicts related to the Middle East conflict are not a new problem in schools. But the … Read more