Stasi
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“There Are Intellectuals Who Say Anticommunism Is Somehow Uncool.”
A book has just been published by the University Press of Kentucky on The Lives of Others, the landmark drama about the East German secret police. This Oscar-winning movie from 2006, mentioned previously on the site, is examined from just about every angle in Totalitarianism on Screen: The Art and Politics of “The Lives of Others” edited…
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Baal-ieve It or Not
Oskar Homolka and David Bowie—not much in common there, right? Guess again. The Viennese actor (I Remember Mama, War and Peace, Funeral in Berlin) played Baal, the frolicsome sociopath in Bertolt Brecht’s play of that name, and so did the British rock star. Homolka, who died in 1978, was Baal during the Weimar Republic, not…
Painting the Culture Red 