‘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...

Heartbreak hotel

Just broken up with your partner? Freshly single and having to face the misery of a lonely Valentine’s Day? Help is at hand in the form of an alternative holiday for the heartbroken HERE IT COMES again, that most dreaded day of the year. Bad enough if you or...