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In Focus: Towards the City! Towards the Country!

Towards the City! Towards the Country!

In a time when almost all social life is concentrated in the cities, we explore the relation of the city and the countryside in Germany and China: Why do more and more urbanites decide to escape the city in favour of a life in the countryside? And can the benefits of urban and rural life be combined?More ...
    Adelbert-von-Chamisso-awardees: above f.l.t.r.: Yoko Tawada, photo: Yves Noir; Emine Sevgi Özdamar, photo: Helga Kneidl; Libuše Moníková, photo: Renate von Mangoldt; below f.l.t.r.: Galsan Tschinag, photo: Rosemarie von Schnoy; Ilija Trojanow, photo: Yves Noir; Catalin Dorian Florescu, photo: Yvonne Böhler

    Literature and Language

    Hardly Anybody Says “Immigrant”

    German literature by non-native German authors
      The entrance to the site of this year's Fixed Gear Revolution; Copyright: Fixed Gear Revolution sponsors

      Column

      “Fixed Gear Revolution 5”

      A New Beginning for Chinese Fixed Gear Culture
        How do you judge artistic quality?

        Focus: Art Criteria

        "How do you judge artistic quality?"

        Ten curators about their experience
          Propaganda poster from the Cultural Revolution: Red Guards with their “Mao Bibles”; ©ImagineChina

          Society and Media

          Healing Wounds?

          Psychotherapy and the Cultural Revolution