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The Week in Germany: Culture
March 9, 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!
 'We
Should Be Saying: Keep the Luxury Car'
Der Spiegel's English language pages offer more than just commentary
on German and European Issues - Germany's biggest weekly an increasingly
offers a European perspective on American culture and politics in English.
In this Spiegel interview, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
argues that environmentalism does not necessitate an ascetic lifestyle,
citing his own hydrogen Hummer as a case in point.
Beware,
the walls have ears
As TWIG readers and discriminating cinema fans know, "The Lives of
Others" won the Oscar for best foreign film last month. But how faithful
is it to the memory of life under the all-seeing eye of the secret police?
In this Guardian article, Neal Ascherson, The Observer's
Berlin correspondent at the height of Stasi rule, says the film feels
so real he could smell it.
In
the Now: Where Karl Lagerfeld lives
Compulsively modern, the German designer Karl Lagerfeld is a voracious
consumer and creater of culture, from pop to the avant garde: "I
buy all the new things," he told John Colapinto for this New
Yorker profile. Yet he also sees himself in an anachronistic state
of exile from Weimar Germany: “I’m German in my mind,”
Lagerfeld says, “but from a Germany that doesn’t exist anymore.”
"I
Try to Be an Example of an 'OK' American"
Germans love Jonathan Franzen. The Oprah-snubbing author's novel The
Corrections was at least as huge a hit in Germany as it was in America.
But did you know that Jonathan Franzen loves Germans? In this Deutsche
Welle interview, Franzen talks about his experiences as a student in Berlin
and his respect for German literature.
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