"In history class, I single-handedly denigrated the Soviet Union. We were sitting with our textbooks open. I felt bored. There was a photo of Lenin on the page. With my ballpoint pen, I drew Lenin an earring and a Mohican haircut... Forty years earlier in Thuringia, a schoolgirl had adorned a portrait of Stalin with
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An international team of Berlin-based comedians will come to Leipzig this Saturday to start off August just right - with raucous laughter (hopefully).
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Here's our regular listing of films being shown in English and other original foreign languages (with labels such as OmU, OF and OV) at Leipzig cinemas for this movie week. The documentary Amy continues to be shown in the original in Leipzig; it's a compassionate, loving portrayal of the extremely complex human being Amy
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If you have been following my columns since I started, they have been all about TV and films, but in these times of austerity and cutbacks in the arts, I wanted to show my respect for the great things happening in theater as well. In light of this and coming from a theater background the
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Our artist-columnist today shares some of her experience as an expat getting into German cultural habits: garden house and lakeside techno festival.
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Part II of this five-part series depicts the beginning of the accidental pen-pal relationship between Diana growing up in the GDR and a girl growing up in the Soviet Union - the pivot of the whole story. We welcome readers to share their transnational cultural experiences with us, as well.
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