Twenty-five years after his cult TV series, Kir Royal, director Helmut Dietl has now come released a sort of ?sequel? for the big screen. Zettl focuses on the high-flying career of a ruthless media man in Berlin. As satire, however, the frigid figures in Zettl fail to warm up to viewers. ...
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Poland's youth have taken to the streets to protest against Acta and Donald Tusk has listened, Polityka explains. Himal and the Economist report on the repression of homosexuality in the Muslim world. Outlook India doesn't understand why there will be no "Dragon Tattoo" film in India. And in Eurozine, Slavenka Drakulic looks at how close the Serbs are to eating grass.
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In the French Huffington Post, philosopher Catherine Clement explains why the griot Youssou N'Dour had next to no chance of becoming Senegal's president. Peter Sloterdijk (in Le Monde) and Umberto Eco (in Espresso) share their thoughts about forgetting. Al Ahram examines the post-electoral depression of Egypt's young revolutionaries. And in Eurozine, Kenan Malik defends freedom of opinion against those who want the world to go to sleep.
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Il Sole Ore weeps at the death of a laughing Vincenzo Consolo. In Babelia, Javier Goma Lanzon cries: Praise me, please! Osteuropa asks: Hungaria, quo vadis? The newborn French Huffington Post heralds the birth of the individual in the wake of the Arab Spring. Outlook India is infuriated by the cowardliness of Indian politicians in the face of religious fanatics.
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In Nepszabadsag the dramatist György Spiro recognises 19th century France in Hungary today. Peter Nadas, though, in Lettre International and salon.eu.sk, is holding out hope for his country's modernisation. In Open Democracy, Boris Akunin and Alexei Navalny wish Russia was as influential as America - or China. And in Lettras Libras, Peter Hamill compares Mexico with a mafia film by the Maquis de Sade.
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Are books about to become a sort of author-translator wiki, asks Il Sole 24 Ore. Rue 89 reports on the "Tango Wars" in downtown Buenos Aires. Elet es Irodalom posits a future for political poetry. In Merkur, Mikhail Shishkin encounters Russian pain in Switzerland. Die Welt discovers the terror of the new inside the collapse of the old in Andrea Breth's staging of Isaak Babel's "Maria". And Poetry Foundation waits for refugees in Lampedusa.
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Technology Review sees Apple as the next Big Brother. In Eurozine, Per Wirten still fears the demons of the European project. Al Ahram Weekly features Youssef Rakha's sarcastic "The honourable citizen manifesto". Revista Piaui profiles Iraqi-Norwegian geologist Farouk Al-Kasim. Slate.fr comments on the free e-book versions of Celine's work. And Die Welt celebrates the return of Palais Schaumburg.
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Andre Glucksman in Tagesspiegel looks at the impact of the Putinist plague on Russia and Europe. In Letras Libras Martin Caparros celebrates the Kindle as book. György Dalos has little hope that Hungary's intellectuals can help get their country out of the doldrums. Le Monde finds Cioran with his head up the skirt of a young German woman. The NYT celebrates the spread of N'Ko, the West African text messaging alphabet.
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MicroMega cheers recent landmark Mafia convictions in Milan. Volltext champions Hermann Broch. Elet es Irodalom calls the Orban government’s attack on cultural heritage "Talibanisation". Magyar Narancs is ambiguous about new negotiations with the IMF. Telerama recommends the icon of anti-colonialism Frantz Fanon. Salon.eu.sk quips about the dubious election results in Russia, and voices in the German press mark the passing of Christa Wolf. And in the Anglophone press Wired profiles Jeff Bezos, while the Columbia Journalism Review polemicises the future of internet journalism.
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Moroccans are no less hungry for freedom that Tunisians, activist Hisham Almiraat explains in openDemocracy. But their elites are too cowardly, fears Moroccan journalist Driss Ksikes in Le Monde. Die Welt watches Rutger Hauer explain why Jesus was hidden in Breugel's painting. El Pais Semanal meets a homeless man who wanted to become an executioner. Elet es Irodalom tries to see the positive in the far-right takeover of the New Theatre in Budapest. Gustav Seibt in the SZ scoffs at Habermas' belief in the European citizen. And in Magyar Narancs, Israeli writer Etgar Keret believes the mass demonstrations in Israel have changed the nation's discourse.
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MicroMega warns that Berlosconism remains alive and kicking. Magyar Narancs exhorts Hungary to confront its historical responsibility for the events of 1944. Slate.fr sets the record straight about Germany's self-image as Europe's financial bulwark. Elet es Irodalom deplores plans to tear down the home of socialist football. Frankfurter Rundschau says, yes, Germany does have a racism problem beyond the Brown Army Faction. And Al Ahram Weekly voices its doubts about the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Telerama introduces the French pioneers of internet journalism. In Eurozine, Charles Taylor and a left-wing Polish Catholic discuss the de-politicisation of politics. Elet es Irodalom explains that 90 percent of the Hungarian population were misinformed about the recent mass demonstrations in their country. Hector Abad in El Espectador is happy to believe in angels. The Tagesspiegel says it's high time we started taking the Nazis seriously. And Die Zeit wonders where all the intellectuals were when Europe withered.
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Eurozine suggests letting random Belgian citizens decide the future of their country. Magyar Narancs got a charge out of the mass demonstrations of October 23. But HVG sees demonstrators as motivated by their wallets more than democracy. In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frank Schirrmacher and Jürgen Habermas don't understand the criticism of the Greek referendum, and Le Monde believes Papandreou is driven by a fear of extremist violence. Telerama takes a closer look at the utopian spirit of William Morris's designs, and Der Tagesspiegel profiles the new Berlin star: Aerea Negrot.
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Without universalism, there can be no human rights, explains Caroline Fourest in Le Monde. There too, Jürgen Habermas calls for more democracy in Europe. For Merkur, Green is classless. Il Sole Ore can't see Italy, only Italians. In the NZZ, J.M. Coetzee can't understand what happened to the intellectual element of religion. And Polityka wonders why the Polish don't appreciate their illustrators.
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Elet es Irodalom lauds three biographies for honestly settling acounts with the communist era. In Rue89 Daniel Cohn-Bendit demands: Federalise Europe! La vie des idees reveals tactics used to muzzle the private press in Egypt. Die Welt is incredibly bored by a new online database of Nazi art. Il Sole 24 Ore reminisces on the better days of the Italian economic miracle, and in Babelia, philosopher Jose Luis Pardo has a sure recipe for capitalizing on current market slumps.
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In the NZZ, Najem Wali praises Boualem Sansal for immunising himself against the hypocrisy of Arab intellectuals. In Le Monde Pierre Nora explains that colonialism was in fact a discourse of the left. Nazis should be on the stage, says Peter Esterhazy in Elet es Irodalom, but not, please, with state funding. Who writes about the poor today, Sibylle Lewitscharoff asks in Literaturen. In La regle du jeu, Marc Lambron compares tartar with AC/DC, and Eurozine pitches democracy against purity.
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