Spring 2025

There is an island that must be seen: a model that is being phased out. Hurry to visit before the last traces are obliterated, for the victors will not put up with any leftovers, and in Miami people are already …

Toward the end of last summer we went to a Danish island, as we have done for years now, looking to put some space between us and our “troublesome fatherland,” yet mindful of how quickly and completely such small distance, …

Shortly before Christmas, on my way to Lauubeck from Gauottingen, I was changing trains in Hamburg when a   young man approached me, practically cornered me, and called me a traitor to the fatherland. He left me standing there with the …

On Holy Thursday, 1968, a youth named Bachmann, an admirer of Hitler, shot and critically wounded Rudi Dutschke, the leader of a militant Berlin student group. As a result of this attempted murder, there were violent student demonstrations during Easter …

This Address was delivered on September 8, 1968, in Basel, Switzerland, and published in Die Zeit, October 4, 1968. Ladies and Gentlemen: This is not a protest meeting. Protest is a reaction to the injustice of the day. The injustice …

East Berlin, June 17, 1953: The workers’ uprising is seething in the streets; on stage, the “Boss”—artist and man of the theatre, a figure clearly modeled on Bertold Brecht—is rehearsing his new production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. At the close of …