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The Week in Germany: Culture

January 5, 2007

Readings: TWIG Cannot Cover it All - But We Can Tell You Where to Find it!

As you might imagine, the TWIG editors spend a lot of time sifting through the mountain of information available on the Internet about Germany. For those of you who are not quite as surflustig - we continue our weekly selection of links to top-notch writing about Germany on the Web. If you like TWIG, you might find these stories interesting as well.

Happy Reading!

Wim Wenders on Giving Europe a Soul (signandsight)
In a speech delivered at the conference "A Soul for Europe", German filmmaker Wim Wenders says Europeans must believe in the power of their own imagery.

"Despair is something vast" (signandsight)
In an interview originally published in the highbrow weekly newspaper Die Zeit, German composer Wolfgang Rihm talks about productive solitude and his latest opera.

Dragon-Slayers, the London Review of Books on Hannah Arendt
New York political scientist Corey Robin mulls over three new compilations of Hannah Arendt's work, finding fault with what he deems a failure in recent times to take on her most controversial ideas, including a critique of careerism.

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