‘The Cassandras in the world are never asleep’

Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka – playwright, poet, ‘anatomist of the workings of power’ – shows a Munich audience he is still well able to pounce THE BUZZ in the lecture hall in the Literaturhaus München becomes more subdued as the minutes tick by –...

‘Doomed to be a writer’

David Grossman appears in the first of a series of talks – The Cassandra Phenomenon – during the Munich Security Conference ‘WE CAN ALL IDENTIFY with the horrible experience of Cassandra,” says Israeli writer David Grossman at Munich’s Literaturhaus on 16...

Memorial for victims of Munich shooting

Munich’s city council has chosen a design for a memorial for the nine victims of last year’s shooting at a Munich shopping centre A design by artist Elke Härtel has been selected to commemorate the nine people who lost their lives at the hands of a lone gunman in...

Ice dream

MUNICH has frozen in the grip of the coldest January for years. Sub-zero temperatures have sent many cowering into their duvets. Others – hardy, warm-blooded snow and ice enthusiasts – are emerging from hibernation and taking advantage of the arctic conditions for an...

Mass shooting in Munich

THE mass shooting in Munich last night, in which 10 people lost their lives – including the gunman – and many others were wounded, has been designated as an “amok” shooting, not a terrorist attack. The German work “amok” describes an indiscriminate rampage shooting by...

Oh holy night

“NAME?” “Dennis. Dennis Mobray.” “Age?” “Six.” The woman at the desk looked up at him over her glasses. “OK. Slightly bolshy sense of humour. I’ll make a note of that in the character profile. A lot of people don’t like that. But some families do, actually.” She...