Charlie Bertsch / 02 Jul 2025
After the Fall
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch is not the sort of film you forget. But it might be the sort you repress.(...)
East Germany
John Foster / 06 Sep 2024
Alternative für Deutschland Country
The Logic of Populism
The results of the elections in Thuringia and Saxony were alarming, if not exactly surprising.(...)
John Foster / 24 Nov 2023
Condemned to Barbarism
The Populist Doomloop
It’s not that there’s a spectre haunting Europe. It’s that there are too many.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 21 Sep 2023
The End of Privacy
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s superb 2006 film The Lives of Others looks back at the final years of East Germany.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 12 Jul 2023
Music for Socialism
The Kosmischer Läufer Con
During the decade since Edinburgh’s Unknown Capability Recordings began releasing analogue electronic music under the name Kosmischer Läufer, the label has assiduously maintained that these tracks were secretly made for the East German Olympic team between 1972 and 1983.(...)
John Foster / 13 Jan 2023
The Greens Are Dead
Lützerath and German Environmentalism
Be careful what you wish for. It may be a cliché, but it's one the Greens are learning all over again.(...)
Joel Schalit / 05 Apr 2022
Cold War During Ukraine War
Fleeing the Russians. Berlin Wall reproduction, Berlin-Brandenburg Airport. [Joel Schalit]