True magic

True magic

Is there something like true love? And how is the difference between true and untrue love defined? Or is it just wishful thinking that a true love defies any inconvenience, any odds, any boredom or routine and all the temptations in the world? Or is it the enchantment of a first encounter attached to a special situation by its protagonists,

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Ten weeks in Algier

It is usually the case for significant birthdays of well-known personalities to be valued by documentaries or TV films. Books alike, whether it be biographies or historical novels, in the course of big sales opportunities are (once again) published. It happened once more lately upon the bicentenary birthday of a famous German philosopher: Karl Marx. Who is Marx? Well, I

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Under the spell of the witch

Under the spell of the witch

The Harz mountains, a place of magic, mysticism and fairy tales which experiences its annual peak on Beltaine. A night when people say officially goodbye to winter time hello to May. Witches are emblem of that night and can be found manifold with the Harz region: either hanging above the door or sitting in front of the house. And sometimes

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Hellground

Hellground

After a stressful working week we were looking forward to a small walking tour this time. 15,4 km were on the schedule according to Google Maps, which were supposed to be managed in 3.5 hours. Four stamps of the “Harzer Wandernadel” should be collected on the way. How this alledged small round trip became one of the longest tours ever

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Andermatt: a place not for everybody?

Leonidas Bieris documentary starts with a historical indexing of the meaning of the village Andermatt from the 19th century to the termination of the Cold War. Whereas the place in the Swiss Alps became a sophisticated at the turn of the century and played an important role in the second World War as a base for the Swiss army, Andermatt

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MBS – who is behind?

Nobody knows whether it is simply a moderate breeze or a coming storm. At the latest since November last year there is a much-debated new face on the scene of the world map: Mohammed Bin Salman (aka: MbS), Saudi Arabia’s young crown prince. And right at the start he calls the world’s attention: For the first time in the history

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Where is the revolution?

“Where’s the revolution” Depeche Mode is asking on their CD “Spirit”. The British pop band has always been state-of-the-art with its witty lyrics and one again they hit the bull’s eye. At no time the question for a revolution has been more justified than now, when the world seems to have turn upside down. To begin with the twilight of

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