Allgemein

Returning to Berlin from this year’s Cottbus Film Festival I felt weighed down with images. The feeling was accompanied by a curious sense of disorientation: You come out of a screening that takes you, say, to Minsk, or to Slovakia or Sofia, and you are unsure where you are. You realize: This small German city […]

Standing in front of a shop window in the small town of Bad Belzig, on an overcast November day four or five years ago, I realized for the first time my home country is much more connected with the East than I ever imagined. I had come not for the first time from Berlin to […]