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Pop Journalism
Pop journalism (German: Popjournalismus) is a form of journalism, that appeared under the influence of the American New Journalism in the mid-60s in Germany and coined the writing right down to the literature. This was most evident in Jörg Fauser’s writing. Definition It is defined as follows: "pop journalism: an art of entertainment — without that invisible line, separating entertainment and arts so often from each other." Neutert not only praised the onomatopoetic "bombshell" of the little word ''pop'', but also the term’s inherent "meaning variety, non-normativity, openness." Characteristics It is a hybrid genre, interlinking journalistic and literary approaches, characterized by using a first-person narrative. Its style is more literary than journalistic, emphasizing "truth" over strict "facts," and subjectivity instead of Journalistic objectivity, objectivity, aesthetic pleasure instead of sobriety. Pop journalists are not disinterested observers, but immerse t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ich Denkmal
Ich may refer to: * Ich, a German pronoun meaning ''I'', also a Middle English form of ''I'' * The Id, ego and super-ego#Ego, ego, one of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche * Ich (album), ''Ich'' (album), an album by German rapper Sido * Ich, Semnan, a village in Semnan Province, Iran * Ich, Zanjan, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran * Ich, alternative name of Ij, Zanjan, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran * ''Ichthyophthirius multifiliis'', often shortened to ich, a disease of freshwater fish ** ''Cryptocaryon'' or marine ich, a similar disease of marine fish * ''Engeyum Kaadhal'', produced under the working title ''Ich'', an upcoming 2011 Tamil film ;As an acronym * I/O Controller Hub, an Intel Southbridge technology * Indian Coffee House, a restaurant chain in India * Intangible cultural heritage, a concept in cultural anthropology * eMule#Basic concepts, Intelligent Corruption Handling, a corruption-handling method used in eMule * I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Zeit
''Die Zeit'' (, "The Time") is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in Germany. The newspaper is generally considered to be among the German newspapers of record and is known for its long and extensive articles. History The first edition of ''Die Zeit'' was first published in Hamburg on 21 February 1946. The founding publishers were Gerd Bucerius, Lovis H. Lorenz, Richard Tüngel and Ewald Schmidt di Simoni. Another important founder was Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, who joined as an editor in 1946. She became publisher of ''Die Zeit'' from 1972 until her death in 2002, together from 1983 onwards with former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, later joined by Josef Joffe and former German federal secretary of culture Michael Naumann. The paper's publishing house, Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius in Hamburg, is owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and Dieter von Holtzbrinck Media. The paper is published weekly on Thursdays. As of 2018, ''Die Zeit'' has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Finlay
Francis Finlay, (6 August 1926 – 30 January 2016) was an English stage, film and television actor, Oscar-nominated for a supporting role as Iago in Laurence Olivier's 1965 film adaptation of ''Othello''. In 1983, Finlay was directed by Italian filmmaker Tinto Brass in the erotic classic '' The Key'', with Stefania Sandrelli. His first leading television role came in 1971 in ''Casanova''. This led to appearances on '' The Morecambe and Wise Show''. He also appeared in the drama ''Bouquet of Barbed Wire''. Early life Finlay was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, the son of Josiah Finlay, and Margaret Finlay. He was educated at St Gregory the Great School, but left at 14 to train as a butcher at Toppings, gaining a City and Guilds Diploma in the trade. Stage career Finlay made his first stage appearances at the local Farnworth Little Theatre, in plays that included Peter Blackmore's ''Miranda'' in 1951. The current Little Theatre president, also in the cast of that ''Miranda'' pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Kracht
Christian Kracht (; born 29 December 1966) is a Swiss author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages. Personal life Kracht was born in Saanen in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. He attended Schule Schloss Salem in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and Lakefield College School in Ontario, Canada. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, New York, in 1989. He has lived for long spells in Buenos Aires, Lamu, Florence, Bangkok, Kathmandu, Landour, Los Angeles and Munich. He is married to German film director Frauke Finsterwalder. They live in Zurich. Kracht´s father, Christian Kracht Sr., was chief representative for the Axel Springer publishing company in the 1960s. Journalism and collaborative work Before becoming a novelist, Kracht worked as a journalist for a number of magazines and newspapers in Germany, including ''Der Spiegel''. In the mid-1990s he lived and worked in New Delhi as Spiegel's Indian correspondent. Kracht then moved to Bangkok, from where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faserland
''Faserland'' is the debut novel by Christian Kracht, published in 1995. It is considered to have triggered the new wave of German pop literature. It is the swan song of the generation of the 80s, whose characteristics are so carefully described in the book that it has been called the "cult novel of a generation". Critics often compare the book to those of the American author Bret Easton Ellis. ''Faserland'' has been translated into Russian, Czech, Latvian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Korean, Romanian, French, Ukrainian, Swedish, Norwegian and Hebrew. Title The title allows many different interpretations. Directly translated, it means "land of fibers"Kiepenheuer & Witsch''Faserland foreign rights'' a possible reference to the narrator's recurring fixation on clothing, in particular his Barbour jacket. Other meanings that could be read into the title are the verbs ''zerfasern'' ("to fray"), referring to the fraying of society, and ''faseln'' ("to prattle on" or "to blather") ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Dax
Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE) * Max (gorilla) (1971–2004), a western lowland gorilla at the Johannesburg Zoo who was shot by a criminal in 1997 Brands and enterprises * Australian Max Beer * Max Hamburgers, a fast-food corporation * MAX Index, a Hungarian domestic government bond index * Max Fashion, an Indian clothing brand Computing * MAX (operating system), a Spanish-language Linux version * Max (software), a music programming language * Commodore MAX Machine * Multimedia Acceleration eXtensions, extensions for HP PA-RISC Films * ''Max'' (1994 film), a Canadian film by Charles Wilkinson * ''Max'' (2002 film), a film about Adolf Hitler * ''Max'' (2015 film), an American war drama film Games * '' Dancing Stage Max'', a 2005 game in the ''Dance Dance Revolution'' series * ''DDRM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spex (magazine)
''Spex'' was a German rock and pop culture magazine located in Berlin, Germany. Besides music news, ''Spex'' also covered literature, cinema, fashion and contemporary social trends. Since January 2008, ''Spex'' was headquartered in Berlin and included an audio CD. History The foundation The paper's first issue was published in Cologne in 1980 by a small group of writers who decided to found their own music paper: they were Gerald Hündgen, Clara Drechsler, Dirk Scheuring, Wilfried Rütten and Peter Bömmels. They first considered naming it ''555'' but finally pitched on ''Spex'' – which means "glasses" in English slang. The name ''Spex'' reminds of the then very famous punk band X-Ray Spex. The magazine was initially distributed in record stores and railway stations. The articles were not as elaborate as those in comparable magazines, as the objective was to present new young artists. Four issues were published in the first year. ''Spex'' turned monthly in 1981. In 1983 its m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jutta Koether
Jutta Koether (born 1958) is a German artist, musician and critic based in New York City and Berlin , Dundee. since the early 1990s. Early life and education Koether was born in and studied art and philosophy at the . She relocated to New York City in 1991. |
Diedrich Diederichsen
Diedrich Diederichsen (born August 15, 1957) is a German author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is an intellectual writer at the crossroads of the arts, politics, and popular culture, pop culture. Diedrich Diederichsen was born and grew up in Hamburg where he worked as a music journalist and editor of the German ''Sounds'' magazine in the heyday of Punk subculture, punk and New wave music, new wave from 1979 to 1983. Until the 1990s he was then the editor-in-chief of the influential subculture magazine ''Spex (magazine), Spex'' in Cologne. Diederichsen worked as visiting professor in Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart, Pasadena, California, Pasadena, Offenbach am Main, Gießen, Weimar, Bremen, Vienna, St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis, Cologne, Los Angeles and Gainesville, Florida, Gainesville. After teaching at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart for several years, he became Professor for Theory, Practice and Communication of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twen
''Twen'' was a West German magazine that was published from 1959 to 1971, and known for its innovative design and typography. History and profile ''Twen'' was launched in 1959 as a bimonthly magazine and the first issue appeared in April 1959. The founders were Hans A. Nikel and Hans Hermann. However, there is another report citing the founders as Adolf Theobald and Stephen Wolf. In September 1961, the magazine became a monthly publication. Willy Fleckhaus was ''Twens art director throughout its existence. Notable photographers included Christa Peters. ''Twen'' was pitched at "people in their twenties, from 15 to 30", thus its name, ''Twen''. It was read in both West and East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state .... The magazine folded with the June 1971 is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankfurter Rundschau
The ''Frankfurter Rundschau'' (FR) is a German daily newspaper, based in Frankfurt am Main. It is published every day but Sunday as a city, two regional and one nationwide issues and offers an online edition (see link below) as well as an e-paper. Local major competitors are the conservative-liberal ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' (FAZ), the local edition of the conservative tabloid '' Bild'', the best-selling newspaper in Europe, and the smaller local conservative ''Frankfurter Neue Presse''. The ''Rundschau's'' layout is modern and its editorial stance is social liberal. It holds that "independence, social justice and fairness" underlie its journalism. Frankfurter Rundschau Druck and Verlagshaus GmbH filed for bankruptcy on 12 November 2012. Then the paper was acquired by ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' and Frankfurter Societät (publisher of the ''Frankfurter Neue Presse'') in 2013, by taking over just 28 full-time journalists. The FR editorial board continued to be b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Süddeutsche Zeitung
The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of SZ is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and social-democrat. History On 6 October 1945, five months after the end of World War II in Germany, the ''SZ'' was the first newspaper to receive a license from the US military administration of Bavaria. Thfirst issuewas published the same evening, allegedly printed from the same (repurposed) presses that had printed ''Mein Kampf''. The first article begins with: Declines in ad sales in the early 2000s was so severe that the paper was on the brink of bankruptcy in October 2002. The Süddeutsche survived through a 150 million euro investment by a new shareholder, a regional newspaper chain called Südwestdeutsche Medien. Over a period of three years, the newspaper underwent a reduction in its staff, from 425 to 307, the closing of a regional edition in Düsseldor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
