Merkur
Eurozine
Merkur
2007-02-28
Summary of Merkur 3/2007
The March issue (No. 695) is not easy to sum up. Here political and cultural topics are covered in the same breath, as though they had something to do with one another!
Walter Grasskamp describes how the "Junge Wilde" have established a somewhat too successful market presence on which they continue to chew artistically, while Wolfgang Ullrich considers the invention of New York as an art metropolis. Richard Klein sketches the physiognomy of the interpreter Karajan. Columnists Marius Meller and Christoph Mäckler tell today's literature and architecture a thing or two. Walter Klier looks forward to the rediscovery of Franz Grillparzer and of theatrical historicism, and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht stages an American myth: football.
While some hysterical Germans see nothing but pauperized masses, obdurate observers deny that social classes even exist: Hans-Peter Müller on the discourse and reality of today's class society. Herfried Münkler analyzes the useful tendency of foundations to incite unrest. Everyone loves Hannah Arendt -- but for the wrong reasons, Russell Jacoby posits, and Jochen Thies believes the German political counsel is in crisis.
With Burkhard Müller as political and cultural tour guide, a visit to the wooden city of Quedlinburg is a first-rank reading and awareness treat.