Mar 4, 2024 | Europäische Kultur, European Culture, La culture Européenne
In memory of Victoria Amelina (1 January 1986 – 1 July 2023) After the liberation of Kherson, it wasn’t long before Victoria Amelina announced on her Twitter account that she was travelling there to document the Russian war crimes against Ukraine’s...
Mar 4, 2024 | Europäische Kultur, European Culture, La culture Européenne
Europe, Ukraine and culture It is well known that Jean Monnet (1888-1979), the father of the idea of European unification, believed that if he had to start his great project all over again, he would not begin with coal and steel, but with culture. In fact, long before...
Mar 3, 2024 | La culture Européenne
Cancel culture vs. execute culture Just after the Russian invasion, the novelist Victoria Amelina wrote an essay warning that Ukraine’s cultural community faced the same fate as the Executed Renaissance in the 1930s. On 1 July, Amelina herself died of injuries...
Mar 3, 2024 | Europäische Kultur, European Culture, La culture Européenne
The Peter Pan Effect My grandmother had to read Peter Pan out loud to me more than thirty times. No, I understood everything the first time, I just loved the book so much – I can’t even remember why. But it doesn’t matter anymore. It’s just...
Mar 1, 2024 | Europäische Kultur, European Culture, La culture Européenne
It is not uncommon for armed conflicts to drag art and cultural objects into the spiral of violence: the case of the Russian attack on Ukraine is a very vivid example. At the very beginning of the war, on 24 February 2022, the Russian army captured the city of...
