Category: Allgemein

Episode 2 starts with Sina Khani’s signature schtick: eating tropical fruit in the most disgusting way possible. If watching Sina eat a mango in Episode 1 made you want to pull out your eyeballs and dip them in bleach, you might want to skip the first 30 seconds because Sina has not become a cleaner… Continue reading Creeps from the middle East, part 2.1.

While I basically niched myself into some sort of vintage gossip territory with this blog, today I d like to talk about a very hot new web series that goes by the name “Creeps from the Middle East” set in Berlin and Berlin´s spiritual sister Amsterdam. I know that Hip Hop scholars are disseminating the… Continue reading Creeps from the middle East

Murnau antisemitic?  Before we talk about his personality let´s talk about the movie that brought about all the accusations about an antisemitic Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. Nosferatu-this pearl of German expressionism so dark it was made into a remake by the mighty Werner Herzog in ´79 and will be made into yet another remake by Robert… Continue reading hyperrealities: Jews and G-words: part 2

I never intended to work in political education. I actually try to avoid reading too much politics because it simply depresses me. In my guided tours I talk about fine arts, architecture, art history, movies, music, fashion, interesting people in the arts- the finer things in life. But even an ignorant escapist like me runs… Continue reading Hyperrealities reloaded: Jews and G-words.

To start out: I can´t imagine two women more alike and more different.  The names Marlene and Leni already kind of act as a spoiler: Leni was the little, the lesser Marlene. Leni had always been the beta female to Marlene´s alpha, you would not waste a breath for another syllable. Leni outlived Marlene by… Continue reading Marlene Dietrich vs. Leni Riefenstahl

Part 1: Everybody should hate Goethe What revolted the mature Goethe in the young Kleist, who submitted his works to the elder statesman ‘on the knees of his heart’—the morbid, the hysterical, the sense of the unhealthy, the enormous indulgence in suffering out of which Kleist’s plays and tales were mined—is just what we value… Continue reading Lèche-cul Goethe and his whakadoodle train of snoozefest-thoughts

Hurt peope hurt people We all know the old saying that hurt people hurt people. We all know that boys with violent fathers many times become violent fathers. Obviously, this works on a smaller scale as well. So, what happened to these two icons that made them toxic? This is in no way an attempt… Continue reading Battle of the blonde Berlin bombshells pt. 3

Toxic sexuality part 2 Picking up, right where I left two weeks ago! What was definitely really cross bordering is Marlene carrying her used up panties in her purse and rubbing them into her daughter´s husbands nose bragging “Smell that! It’s the president.”John F. Kennedy was amongst Marlene´s many slampieces. I wrote about it before… Continue reading Marlene vs Nico part 2

Which Schöneberg-Icon was more toxic?  In my latest blogposts about Marlene, I already alluded to many toxic qualities about Marlene. But she was in great company! Roughly 40 years after Marlene was born another blonde bombshell was raised in Berlin Schöneberg. Christa Päffgen aka Nico Icon. While both artists are fundamentally different, they spread their… Continue reading Marlene vs. Nico

Nepo Babies ftw Marlene did not take drugs nor did she drink. At least not heavily and at least not whilst she was still living in Berlin. The means she drew attention to herself was by fashion, but more of that later. She was a somewhat pretty girl but so were many others. She was… Continue reading Marlene the fashion icon part 3