An evening with Martin Walker
How surprised we are, the participants of an exploratory trip about biodiversity, when in the restaurant “Chez Julien” in Paunat in the Périgord, the writer and journalist Martin Walker actually appears. Martin Walker is Scottish and has had a varied professional life. He is the author of the million-selling Bruno…
Monika Griefahn receives the Federal Order of Merit
Olaf Lies freely admitted that he didn’t have the easiest of jobs. Monika Griefahn’s “successor-successor-successor”, as the current environment minister of the German federal state of Lower Saxony smirkingly described himself, said: “You can’t list all of Monika Griefahn’s merits – you can only mention the highlights.” Lies was speaking…
Awards for “eco-films”: the secret lifelines of trees revealed
Winners and organizers of the eco film tour 2018. It is a very gratifying task to serve on the jury of the Ökofilmtour (“eco film tour”) festival for films about nature and the environment. Every year I get to watch around 40 great documentary and feature…
The epitome of political art turns 80 – congratulations Klaus Staeck!
Congratualtions by Uwe-Karsten Heye and Monika Griefahn, Willy-Brandt-Haus Berlin. Foto: Florian Gaertner/photothek.net “Nothing is finished” – that’s the motto under which Klaus Staeck invited guests to celebrate his 80th birthday at the Willy-Brandt-Haus in Berlin. More precisely it was the Social Democratic Party’s executive, who organised…
“Trees wouldn’t vote for Trump…”
(A review of the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair)
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade to Margaret AtwoodPhoto: Monika Griefahn “Trees wouldn’t vote for Trump…” – that’s how the forester and author Peter Wohlleben summarised his view on the current political landscape. Trees, he says, know that they can only survive as part of a group….
New consensus after a long debate: “Computer games are a cultural asset”
Monika Griefahn in 2015 at the award ceremony of the German “Computerspielpreis”.Photo (archives): Franziska Krug/Getty Images for Quinke Networks Just ahead of the recent general elections the German Cultural Council issued a gratifying news release: “The Chancellor and the Secretaries-General of the CDU, SPD, Greens, the…
Emotion Award – A Prize for women who inspire
Photograph: Franziska Krug/Getty Images for Emotion.award Dr. Alexandra Widmer? Heike Langguth? Annette Pascoe? None of them are names necessarily known to everyone. And yet all of these women have recently received the Emotion Award in Germany. It’s an award that recognised women who inspire others. For…
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