My Tip of the Month

(25 September 2013) Early music – as it is called today – was long a rather exotic genre in the German music landscape. This may also be due to the sometimes – from today’s viewpoint – unusual instruments played. We may have heard someone play the cornet, we might have a favourite flavour of Cornetto, but what in the world is a cornett? By Maren RoseMore ...

(12 August 2013) Bali bookworms, string-pullers in Tbilisi and a variation on Glenn Gould ... In the third part of our My Tip summer special edition we remind you that all the world’s a stage: performances that are worth a journey, but may also inspire you to stop by a theatre right at home.More ...

(19 August 2013) Cold sweat in Curitiba, big players in Istanbul and somewhere in Africa. Take four: In the final part of our My Tip summer special edition we will take a look at the movie screens and ascertain that the world is not all that far away.More ...

(5 August 2013) A data crash in Australia, strange beasts in India and soulful poetry in Mexico ... In the second part of our My Tip summer special edition we are combing through the world’s jukebox: music from five continents to listen to at home, but guaranteed to produce wanderlust.More ...

(29 July 2013) Our experts around the world are offering their personal recommendations for the August summer break: The first My Tip summer special edition is dedicated solely to literature and its notables. After all, the world’s a book and those who can’t travel read. Don’t you agree?More ...

(2 July 2013) Documentary films from Vietnam: until only recently, a contradiction in terms. But, things are happening now. In spite of all resistance, young filmmakers are pushing open the door to the world stage. By Marina MayMore ...

(29 May 2013) There are pictures that one strolls past when visiting a collection of paintings and there are pictures in front of which one could spend the whole day. The Battle of Alexander at Issus is one of the latter. Altdorfer’s opus is fascinating in its richness of detail and surprisingly up-to-date. By Wolfger PöhlmannMore ...

(27 April 2013) They are quiet refuges in the middle of the big city, often impress us with spectacular architecture and usually offer not only any number of books, but also a few surprises. So why do we rarely see libraries listed in travel guides? By Jens BoyerMore ...

(25 February 2013) Anyone who spends a lot of time online can get the impression that content is becoming ever shorter, information ever more fleeting. Yet the form of the long article still exists on the web. Sites such as reportagen.fm are dedicated to developing it. By Ingrid ArnoldMore ...

(30 March 2013) In recent months, German film has brought forth a few disappointments. Dito Tsintsadze’s Invasion is definitely not one of them. The aggressive psychodrama is unsettling, but convincing. By Christian LüffeMore ...

(28 January 2013) I arrived in Berlin after the fall of the wall and got to know not just the hopeful spirit of the nineties, but also the “golden” twenties. Even today, many look back yearningly at these presumably better days. Three novels are musts for this journey back in time. By Arne SchneiderMore ...

(24 November 2012) The Frankfurt Book Fair is over. No less than 68 writers presented the diversity of the literature scene of the guest country New Zealand there. What was left behind? Days that are getting colder and lots of good books to take us on a literary journey. Here are a few reading tips. By Christoph MücherMore ...

(25 October 2012) How can a British playwright, a German director and an Estonian stage designer find a mutual language for the stage? International theatre productions are a delicate matter. Still, the Münchner Kammerspiele are presently proving that it is worth a dare. By Martin BergMore ...

(25 September 2012) Yes, of course, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, we know that, and teamwork is incredibly important. But how is it to work if the team players do not even know they are on a team? Like this! By Jörg SüßenbachMore ...

(25 August 2012) Among the works exhibited at this year’s Documenta, one is particularly striking: Omar Fast’s Continuity. In our new column My Tip of the Month, Leonhard Emmerling recommends the disquieting installation about a personal Afghanistan trauma. More ...