culture
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Arrival (2016)
Was geschieht mit der Menschheit, wenn sie zum ersten Mal in Kontakt mit einer technisch weit fortgeschrittenen Zivilisation tritt? Dies ist ein klassisches Thema der Science Fiction, welches sich wie kaum ein anderes als Projektionsfläche für Ängste und Hoffnungen einer Epoche eignet. Frühe Werke dieses Subgenres sind zum Beispiel The War of the Worlds (1897)…
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The Bauhaus Legacy: Waldsiedlung Berlin-Zehlendorf
Modern, soulless architecture is often blamed on the Bauhaus movement, founded in 1919 at Weimar by Walter Gropius. There is some truth to that, but it should not be forgotten that the original idea of the Bauhaus was a very humanistic one: To provide the working class with affordable and healthy housing. This was(?) an…
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From the Wild West to the Deep South of America
Many People know the lovely film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid from 1969 with Robert Redford, Paul Newman and Katherine Ross. Not so many people know that the duo and their “friend” and possible mastermind of the gang Etta Place were real persons. After becoming too notorious in the Far West for robbing trains…
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The Anachronism of Libraries
Today, I read an article about the progressive disappearance of public libraries in the rural areas of Germany, and it got me thinking: Bibliothekssterben in MeckPomm (German) If libraries hadn’t existed for centuries now, there’s no way the concept could have been invented in our time. Think of it: Libraries provide free and unlimited access…