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Reinhold Degenhart
Jul 293 min read
Driven into Paradise: Some Notes on Kurt Weill’s Exile in America
In April 1933, Otto Klemperer fled the Nazi regime and went into exile. When he arrived in America to become the conductor of the Los...
Reinhold Degenhart
Jul 83 min read
Is Joseph Conrad´s 'Heart of Darkness' a Colonialist Novel?
Joseph Conrad´s novel, Heart of Darkness (1902) , belongs to the literary canon and is a must-read for anyone bibliophiles. It tells the...
Reinhold Degenhart
Jun 103 min read
‘Why War?’: Rereading a Famous Letter from Freud to Einstein
On June 11th, 2024, the Global Peace Index (GPI) released their 18th annual report, published by the Institute for Economics and Peace,...
Music
Reinhold Degenhart
Jul 293 min read
Driven into Paradise: Some Notes on Kurt Weill’s Exile in America
In April 1933, Otto Klemperer fled the Nazi regime and went into exile. When he arrived in America to become the conductor of the Los...
Reinhold Degenhart
Jan 293 min read
Exploring a Significant Question: Why Do Humans Make Music?
There is a great variety of music around the world, although the word ‘music’ exists in only a few languages apart from English (at least...
Reinhold Degenhart
Jan 13 min read
Tracing the 20th Century Through Music: The Songs of Paul Dessau
Paul Dessau’s musical output has often been reduced to certain pieces he composed from 1949 to 1979, the years where he lived in the GDR...
Literature
Reinhold Degenhart
Jul 83 min read
Is Joseph Conrad´s 'Heart of Darkness' a Colonialist Novel?
Joseph Conrad´s novel, Heart of Darkness (1902) , belongs to the literary canon and is a must-read for anyone bibliophiles. It tells the...
Reinhold Degenhart
May 133 min read
Some Thoughts on Caryl Churchill´s 'Cloud 9' and Sexual Politics
In 1970, Kate Millet published Sexual Politics, which soon became a classic of feminism. Within its pages, Millet calls into question...
Reinhold Degenhart
Apr 153 min read
A Story of Liberation: James Joyce´s ‘A Portrait of the Artist’
The story of Daedalus, the mythical figure, is well-known. He is said to have been an inventor, architect, and artisan who pushed his...
Society & Politics
Reinhold Degenhart
Jun 103 min read
‘Why War?’: Rereading a Famous Letter from Freud to Einstein
On June 11th, 2024, the Global Peace Index (GPI) released their 18th annual report, published by the Institute for Economics and Peace,...
Reinhold Degenhart
Mar 183 min read
What is Hatred, and Is There Something We Can Do About It?
Hatred has been a defining presence in human history, weaving its dark threads through the fabric of our collective experience. From the...
Reinhold Degenhart
Feb 263 min read
It's Time to Learn: Thoughts on the Question of Human Progress
The most widely accepted definition posits that progress is “the advancement to a further or higher state”. However, as the Oxford...
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