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FROM AROUND THE WORLD: BERLIN.(Brief Article)(Review)
As long as Jurgen Flimm limited himself to directing plays, the German press loved him. Ever since he turned to opera, critics from more serious newspapers and magazines have declared him one of the most overrated directors of our time. Flimm generally comes up with a meaningful intellectual concept -- then, detractors agree, he fails to bring it to the stage. Self-consciously arty sets, updating and gimmicky blocking don't help matters.
Otello at Berlin's Staatsoper (seen March 18) gave a perfect example of the director's faults. George Tsypin designed a semi-circular space that looked as if it had been cut out of a glass-and-steel skyscraper. Neon tubes, deck chairs, a swimming pool, staircases and walls made of glass made for a trendy ambience, in which the Venetians took aerobics classes, girls lounged in bikinis, and sailors drank cocktails. Before killing Desdemona, Otello changed into African ...
- Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich.
- Magazine article from: Theological Studies Rolfs, Richard W. September 1, 1997 700+ words
...few studies have investigated the German Christian Faith movement, and Bergen is the...movement. Throughout 1934 and 1935, the German Christian movement suffered further fragmentation...Thus directly and indirectly the German Christian movement underwrote and even promoted...
- Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich. (book reviews)
- Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books Leck, Ralph March 22, 1997 700+ words
...The chauvinistic impulses of the German Christian movement, she concludes, were anything...the institutional correlatives of German Christian ideology. German Christians occupied...Additionally, Ludwig Muller, a virulent German Christian, was Nazi Germany's Protestant...
- German Christian Democrats seek candidate.
- News wire article from: United Press International March 2, 2004 700+ words
FRANKFURT, Germany, Mar 02, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) German Christian Democrats and Free Democrats are hurrying to agree on a presidential candidate after an overwhelming victory in Hamburg elections...
- American Jewish groups and German Christian Church issue joint statement....
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 26, 1989 700+ words
AMERICAN JEWISH GROUPS AND GERMAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH ISSUE JOINT STATEMENT NEW YORK, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifty years after the outbreak of the Second World War and...
- ENLARGEMENT: GERMAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS CONFIRM OPPOSITION TO TURKISH EU...
- Newspaper article from: European Report July 13, 2005 700+ words
Germany's opposition Christian Democrats, who according to opinion polls are set to win prospective early elections in September, confirmed on July 11 that they oppose full EU membership for Turkey and back instead a 'privileged partnership' with Ankara. The position was included in the CDU/CSU
- German Christian Churches Used Slave Labor.(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: Israel Faxx Braude, Jonathan July 14, 2000 700+ words
By Jonathan Braude (VOA-Berlin) Germany's Evangelical Church is contributing nearly $5 million to victims of the Nazi slave labor programs -- after admitting that the churches, too, used forced labor. Fifty-five years after the end of the Second World War, Germany's main protestant church has
- TURKEY: GERMAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS CONTINUE PUSH FOR "PRIVILEGED...
- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database October 11, 2004 700+ words
According to Hurriyet, reacting to this week's historic European Commission report on Turkey, German conservative leader Angela Merkel of the opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) reiterated that her party would prefer a "privileged partnership," not full membership, for Turkey, something
- Record vote for German Christian Democrats.
- News wire article from: United Press International March 1, 2004 700+ words
HAMBURG, Germany, Mar 01, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) Germany's Christian Democrats, the primary national opposition party, have won a record percentage of the vote in Hamburg's regional elections. More than 46 percent of Hamburg voters chose the Christian Democrats, more than