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The Week in Germany: Culture
March 2, 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
roving 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!
 The
Ghosts are Leaving the Shadows
"The Lives of Others", which won the Oscar for best foreign
film on Sunday, is about the Stasi's "people corrosion" operations,
by a young Wessi (west German) director who never experienced the
misery of the GDR. Former dissident Wolf
Biermann is astounded by how convincing it is in an article that originally
appeared in German daily Die Welt in March 2006.
"Airbus
Wouldn't Exist Without Germany"
Der Spiegel's Gabor Steingart and Christian Reiermann talk to German
Economic Minister Michael
Glos about the German economic upswing, the challenges of globalization,
and Germany's partnership with France in the Airbus endeavour.
The
Man Without Whom Der Spiegel Wouldn't Exist: John Seymour Chaloner (1924-2007)
In another piece from Germany's premiere weekly newsmagazine, Jochen Bölsche
explores the life and times of a British World War II officer who wanted
to establish a free press in occupied Germany. He discovered and promoted
Der Spiegel founder Rudolf Augstein in the process.
The
Gall To Speak Her Mind
An American commentator has finally entered the ring in the debate surrounding
Europe's most prominent ex-muslim, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The latest salvo in
this debate being carried out in English on the pages of signandsight.com
comes from Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, who says that Europeans
should embrace Ali's rejection of religion in favor of reason, intellect
and emancipation.
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Praise of Dissidence
In the latest European contribution to the multi-culturalism debate surrounding
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ulrike Ackermann draws parallels between Ali and eastern
European dissidents who turned away from communism in favour of Western
freedom.
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