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...values and, of course, artistic conventions. "I don't even want to know if there were men before me," wrote Tzara, the movement's polemicist in chief, in 1918. Dada spread around the world, to Barcelona, Tokyo, New York City (where Duchamp and Picabia found refuge during the war), Berlin, Cologne, Hanover and ultimately Paris. The first International Dada Fair took place in 1920 in Berlin, at an art gallery evoked here in a room similarly dominated by a hanging dummy dressed in a policeman's uniform wearing a fake pig's head. Members of Berlin's Club Dada...
When he left England on an ocean liner in January 1939 with his school friend and colleague W.H. Auden, Isherwood was a 34-year-old talking point who had written three plays with Auden, journeyed to China and just completed the Goodbye to Berlin stories that would inspire the play I Am a Camera! and the musical Cabaret. He sailed to America trailing a blast of recriminations from his friends, who refused to believe he had discovered himself a pacifist just as his country was going to war. If we believe it, it's only because we're privy...
Germans credit the outgoing government with making the country a more tolerant, eco-friendly place. But with unemployment running at a post--World War II high of 11.2%, young Germans are more interested in finding jobs than saving the world. Birgit Gugath, 25, a political science student in Berlin, voted for the Green Party and Schröder's Social Democrats in 2002 but switched to Merkel this year. "All those big ideas just aren't as important anymore," she says. "We have to take care of ourselves." When the parents of today's twentysomethings entered the work force, "the higher...
...opinions pleased him, confirming that he had avoided making a predictable propaganda film. "I did not make what they wanted me to make," he says. Critics are impressed, too. The film, which has been sold in 45 countries, won the Blue Angel award for best European film at the Berlin Film Festival in February - it is a Dutch-German-French production - as well as the festival's Amnesty International film prize and the Berliner Morgenpost readers' prize for best film. It received strong reviews in France, where it opened earlier this month. It opens in Germany in late September...
...Orleans. Military and medical aid should have been set up in anticipation. I cannot believe that a civilized and highly developed, rich nation was unable to provide people with water, food and medicine over a few days until a broader rescue operation was in place. Vera K. Mathiszik Berlin...