Women in the Art Nouveau Sanatorium Dr. Barner 1900-1914

Women in the Art Nouveau Sanatorium Dr. Barner 1900-1914

The wet and cold weather this summer drives us indoors. Why not make the best of it? We use the circumstances to expand our regional historical knowledge. As part of the exhibition “Goddesses of Art Nouveau,” the (Monastery) Museum Hinter Aegidien offers a lecture on “Women in the Art Nouveau Sanatorium” Dr. Barner 1900-1914. That sounds interesting. The very next

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Turkey today: Crisis or doom?

Turkey today: Crisis or doom?

Latest news from Turkey are hard to follow from our Western democracy point of view. The information about journalists and intellectuals, who either are thrown into prison or are leaving the country, are diconcerting. What makes matters worse is a commercial crisis capturing the country. With the help of military intervention within area of conflicts president Recep Erdogan tries to

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Karam Khella: The re-establishment of Maat

Maat as a principle of justice, this was the motto Prof. Dr. Karam Khella intended to present his lecture announced as “revelution of the arabic people for freedom” on last thursday (26.05.2011) under. The principle “Maat” might have not been the only unexplained concept of the evening. Prof. Dr. Karam Khella born in Asjut (Egypt) in 1934 taught as a

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The mob welcomes you!

Even though is it just a mistranslation from Arabic into English the line “The mob welcomes you” (like Lüders has seen it on the Tripolis’ airport) summarizes the situation in North Africa by now to the point. Themed: “Living together in Brunswieck” Dr. Michael Lüders reported on April, 13th, 2011 on the topic: “Processes of democratization in the Islamic countries

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The three religions are from the same factory!s

Sunday evening. My inner voice reels between the beautiful spring weather outside and the lecture given inside on a vastly discussed topic. The mere drive (by bicycle) would have been worth the effort. So far, I considered my current city as boring if not narrow-minded. Suddenly I discovered „Little Neukölln“ just some metres off the city centre. At the venue

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