Category: Travels

Our longtime colleague Barbara Bollwahn is dead. Three tazers report what you could learn from her.

Taz reporter and writer Barbara Bollwahn Photo: private

What is the most important quality of an outstanding reporter? Of course, she should be able to observe closely, inquire persistently, analyze sharply, write vividly and tell exciting stories, all of that. But the first prerequisite is that she must be enthusiastic about events and phenomena, about incidents and weirdness, about people and their stories. A reporter has to love the new, so much so that in the end she also inspires the readers.

Instead of pop music that’s hot right now in the Western world, the Norient Film Festival features documentaries about sound and music from around the world.

Can he hear the forest spirit? Scene from "Curupira, Creature of the woods" Photo: Norient

Those who had planned – in what felt like a long time ago, before Corona, which is increasingly difficult to remember – to travel to Switzerland for the tenth edition of the Norient Film Festival will now probably be saddened. Switzerland is also currently shimmying from lockdown to lockdown, and cinemas are not exempt, which is why it was decided to turn the event into a streaming festival.

Many Ukrainian voters do not come to the places where they are on the electoral lists. The reason is the war with Russia and the annexation of Crimea.

Kateryna Savchenko cannot vote Photo: ap

When Ukraine will elect a new president in the first round on Sunday and in the runoff on April 21, not all voters will be able to cast their ballots easily a few minutes before or even after lunch. Of the 35.5 million registered voters, those who do not have a registered address – that’s about 1 million eligible voters – will not be able to vote at all. However, all those who do not live where they are allowed to vote by entry in the electoral register must apply to be allowed to vote in the place where they are staying on election day. This application is difficult to obtain.

"Bildbuch," an essay film by Jean-Luc Godard, is assembled from fragments and fragments. A whirl of images, language and music.

From the swirling images, here is one in bright colors Photo: Grandfilm

Jean-Luc Godard goes on montage again, and they are all there: the five fingers of the hand, the five senses, the five parts of the world, the image archives of the Occident, and not only of the Occident, the sound archives too, the thought and language archives even more so. The sound archives with a lot of music: the great Scott Walker, for example, at the very beginning a short excerpt from a film about him, titled "30 Century Man" after a Walker song.