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31 Oct 18:54	STAGE	Three at the top: How is responsibility shared in theatre?From Basel’s drama division to Munich: what shared leadership changes, and how to recognise genuine participation.
31 Oct 18:54	LITERATURE	Sonja Sophie Kreis: A long-standing practice comes into viewA first novel, but not a start from scratch: Sonja Sophie Kreis and the attention surrounding her ahead of the Swiss Book Prize.
31 Oct 07:44	FILM	After the festival, the battle for the big screen beginsLübeck puts Nordic cinema in the spotlight. Whether the films subsequently reach German cinemas depends on distributors, programming slots and audiences.
31 Oct 07:40	MUSIC	Who speaks for nature when it becomes music?Wien Modern makes rivers, forests and insects audible. This background feature asks how environmental sounds become a musical perspective.
31 Oct 07:36	VISUAL ARTS	Who captures the movement – and who disappears from the picture?From Degas to performance: Mannheim’s new exhibition asks how dance becomes visible in the visual arts – and who takes centre stage.
30 Oct 21:33	STAGE	Ballet’s Avant-Garde: Tradition in MotionFrom the Ballets Russes to three world premieres in Dresden: how ballet continually transforms its own language.
30 Oct 21:21	FILM	Who guides our gaze? Wim Wenders films Peter Zumthor’s architectureWenders’ 3D portrait of Peter Zumthor turns spaces into a cinematic experience. But guided perception is not the same as moving through architecture for ourselves.
30 Oct 21:16	STAGE	The Vampire Dances: Bodies Between Seduction and ImmortalityTwo choreographers approach Dracula in different ways: in Munich, Edward Clug explores origins and ritual time, while Krzysztof Pastor turns to love and loss.
30 Oct 21:06	STAGE	Ballet without a single accentThree choreographic perspectives, one ensemble: “Different Grounds” opens a dialogue in Dresden about ballet today.
30 Oct 20:57	FILM	Ulrike Ottinger: Cinema begins long before the camera rollsPhotographs, drawings, fabrics: to mark the release of “Die Blutgräfin” (The Blood Countess), a portrait of Ulrike Ottinger’s filmmaking through the visual arts.
30 Oct 20:54	LITERATURE	Another prize for Bazyar: How does literary consensus emerge?Two juries, the same novel: Bazyar’s awards show how literary judgements take shape and gain traction in the book trade.
30 Oct 20:49	VISUAL ARTS	What world did the Folkwang’s founder collect?“Nach Damaskus …” (To Damascus …) examines the Islamic arts in the early Folkwang — and the European gaze that selected them.
30 Oct 20:42	STAGE	When Childhood Casts Its ShadowsChristmas classic or uncanny childhood tale? Christian Spuck’s Berlin ‘Nutcracker’ takes Marie’s perception as its starting point.
30 Oct 20:12	STAGE	Who has the right to speak for the common good?A finding is not yet a political mandate: Sapir Heller’s Munich premiere of Ibsen leads into a dispute over truth and the common good.
30 Oct 20:12	VISUAL ARTS	Sophie Calle: Who writes a museum’s memories?Vanished GDR symbols, an abandoned hotel and a new gift: Sophie Calle encounters a museum’s politics of memory.
30 Oct 20:11	FILM	Saving buildings does not necessarily mean preserving a cityWho gets to stay when an old hall lives on? On the Buser film: a look at the contracts behind the conversions.
30 Oct 09:06	EDITORIAL	The Freedom of UncertaintyOn the fragility of artists’ lives, the responsibility of institutions and the courage to relinquish certainties.
29 Oct 17:41	EDITORIAL	On Art, Thought and the Future of the DigitalBernd Bartolome works at the intersections of art, philosophy and artificial intelligence. His work combines artistic research with new forms of knowledge, communication and publishing.
29 Oct 17:16	STAGE	Suzie Miller: How much certainty can the stage bear?When your own family becomes a test of your convictions: what makes Suzie Miller’s ‘Inter alia’ compelling material for the stage.
29 Oct 17:15	STAGE	Off Axis, Into the Pulse: Ballet Between Forsythe and EyalClassical technique in a state of emergency: Ballett am Rhein pairs William Forsythe’s “In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated” with Sharon Eyal’s “Strong”.
29 Oct 17:14	VISUAL ARTS	Lee Ufan: How an art prize becomes a museum acquisitionLee Ufan is to receive the Wolfgang Hahn Prize. Behind it lies a model that combines an honour with an acquisition for a collection.
29 Oct 14:57	CULTURAL POLICY	Who decides which cultural assets are saved in an emergency?Priority lists determine what should be salvaged first. How museums, archives and libraries prepare rescue operations – and what remains unresolved.
29 Oct 14:56	VISUAL ARTS	Exhibiting women artists – and then collecting differently?“HER STORY” explores the women artists in the Albertina’s collection. Donations and knowledge of the holdings reveal what lasting visibility depends on.
29 Oct 14:55	FILM	How much artistic individuality can cinema afford?Three countries, public funding and personal commitment: what Ottinger’s “The Blood Countess” reveals about the costs of artistic freedom.
29 Oct 12:08	EDITORIAL	Accessible, but not ownerlessListening to a work, opening an archive, using data: why we should distinguish more carefully between the things we are entitled to ask of art.
28 Oct 16:26	EDITORIAL	Against the finished storyNot every gap needs to be filled. On a culture that looks closely without defining people and history once and for all.
28 Oct 16:10	EDITORIAL	An open door is not an invitationFree admission helps. But socially inclusive cultural policy must also consider time, travel and the feeling of being welcome in a museum.
28 Oct 15:51	EDITORIAL	Being There Is Not Yet ParticipationArt depicts people; institutions invite them in. But who sets the rules? A case for participation that goes beyond visibility.
28 Oct 14:28	MUSIC	When a concert changes the exhibitionbela is to develop a site-specific performance for Kunsthalle Friart. A concert as an additional event – or as an intervention in the exhibition?
28 Oct 14:28	LITERATURE	Shida Bazyar: The village as contested memoryAn invented place, a suppressed past: Shida Bazyar’s novel asks what home conceals and what literature can bring to light.