French filmmaker and journalist Claude Lanzmann died on Thursday in Paris at the age of 92. He had been weak for several days, his publisher Gallimard told press agency AFP. Joined French Resistance as a teen Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1925, Claude Lanzmann was a fighter from the start. He experienced pre-war anti-Semitism […]
Netflix is teaming up with Austria’s public broadcaster ORF for the eight-part series Freud, according to reports by Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. The crime thriller will portray Freud as a young man who teams up with a medium named Fleur Salome and the police inspector Kiss. While ORF will broadcast the series within Austria, Netflix […]
“The Polaroids helped with making the movies, but they were not an aim in themselves. They were disposable,” said Wim Wenders, who owned a Polaroid camera even before it was a consumer article. Over the years, he took about 12,000 snapshots — giving most of them away. When he dug out the ones he’d saved, Wenders […]
“I christen you Louis Arthur Charles” — the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is bound to say something along those lines to the three-month-old royal baby on Monday afternoon. That much is to be expected. But of course, there will be more to the ceremony, and the British tabloids — in high gear anyway since the marriage […]
Like many German musical artists, popular German entertainer Helen Fischer patented her name with the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) — first in 2010 and again in 2015. The entries protect her name through mid-2019, and the singer has the option to extend the trademark protection. As a rule, musicians choose trademark protection in […]
When I arrived in Germany 12 years ago, one of the first things to take me by surprise was the amount of handshaking that goes on here. An appointment with my banker opened with a handshake. With the realtor, too. At work, I walked into office after office, meeting new colleagues, each of whom wanted to […]
