Of Plants and People
In John Baldessari’s 1972 film Teaching a Plant the Alphabet, not a great deal happens. For just under 20 minutes, the letters of the…
How a stage took to water
Moored alongside the tourist steamers of the Saxon Steamship Company at Terrassenufer is an unusual river-going craft: the Theaterkahn Dresdner Brettl. Holger Böhme…
Peace activist Kim Phuc Phan Thi receives the Dresden Prize
In 1972, when war reached the part of Vietnam where she lived, Kim Phuc Phan Thi was just nine years old. The South…
Meet the real Karl May
Karl May fans are familiar with the photos of the author posing in Wild West and Bedouin costumes. The inventor of Winnetou virtually…