von cmadmin | März 14, 2017 | Blog
Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live, or a Life of Montaigne, and At the Existentialist Cafe, tells her Munich audience why existentialism is the rock-and-roll side of philosophy AT THE RISK of looking like the PR for Munich’s Literaturhaus, here’s another report on...
von cmadmin | Feb. 18, 2017 | Blog
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 –...
von cmadmin | Feb. 17, 2017 | Blog
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...
von cmadmin | Feb. 14, 2017 | Blog
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...
von cmadmin | Jan. 26, 2017 | Blog
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...
von cmadmin | Juli 23, 2016 | Blog
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...
