Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Germany'
TEKEL Workers Stage Turkey’s Largest Protest in 30 Years
by Emel Baştürk Akca - Turkey - Once one of Turkey’s biggest public producers of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products, TEKEL has outlets and factories all over the country. But ever since the Turkish giant opted for privatization and terminated...
India Sets Its Sights on Higher Education
by Priyanka Bhardwaj - India - Education remains an emotional subject in a poor and developing country like India, where it is seen as the primary means for social and economic mobility. Indian families are known to sell land and...
20 Years Later, Germany Struggles with “Annexation, not unification”
by Vera von Kreutzbruck – Germany - They were East Germany’s dream couple in the eighties. But shortly after the fall of the Wall, which divided East and West Germany from 1961 until 1989, a scandal would taint the image...
Art Imitating Life: Berlin Through the Eyes of Käthe Kollwitz
by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - This year marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Celebrations for the historic occasion have been planned for months, and next week, Angela Merkel – Germany’s first and now second-term...
Protecting Personal Data: Who Is Watching Big Brother?
by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - One of life’s sweet pleasures is to travel. Thanks to the increasing number of low-cost flights, traveling abroad is no longer a luxury reserved for the privileged few. At the same time, however,...
Barack Obama in Berlin: Germany Meets US Superstar
by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - Barack Obama cast a spell on Germany. Even weeks before his visit to Berlin on July 24th, he dominated the headlines and was the talk of the capital city. Then, after much anticipation,...
A Current between Shores: On Aging
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - Around the time little girls become preoccupied with their own reflections, I remember scanning the various jars of creams and tonics on my mother’s make-up table. I couldn’t yet read so well, but I...
A Current between Shores: On Religion
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - While children around the world are taught that God loves all people, even the most pious of nations repress homosexuals; marginalize and abuse women; neglect the rights of children and wage war on fellow...
Interview with Polish Director Andrzej Wajda: An Elegy for Poland’s Painful Past
by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - Andrzej Wajda was 13 years old when World War II broke out. Together with his mother he lived most of his life in the vain hope that his father might have survived the...
A Current between Shores: On Children
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - My sister doesn’t have any children. Neither does my female cousin, nor my sister-in-law. A close female friend of mine from college wants kids but her relationship woes and her career haven’t allowed for...
A Current between Shores: Womanhood and Marriage
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - “Love one another but make not a bond of love: Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. . . Stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple...
Much Ado about Everything: Berlin’s 58th International Film Festival
by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - This year’s 58th International Film Festival in Berlin is offering a heterogeneous mix of topics and genres with many documentaries, a lot of pathos, a few lost souls, war and violence, politics as...
A Current between Shores: Leaving Home
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - They leave holding only their children's small hands in their own. A crumpled photo of a relative might find its place among their few possessions. Most often it is nothing more than a prospect—of...
A Current between Shores: On Education
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - Before we had our own children, my husband and I began sponsoring a child in Senegal named Absa, a pretty little girl with clever eyes. • Absa in Senegal. Photo courtesy of World Vision...
A Current between Shores: From Scarcity to Excess
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - As a child, my parents told me almost every day to be grateful for the food on my plate. When I occasionally grimaced at the offerings, my father would say, “No problem, we can...
A Current between Shores: Dictatorship & Democracy
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - January 30th marks the 75th "anniversary" of Hitler's rise to power. Today, appropriately, we begin a nine-part series by Rose-Anne Clermont conceived as "Parallel Histories from Different Worlds." The series begins with the early...
Old-fashioned Televised Debates a Thing of The Past: The WIP Participates in Online Presidential Forum
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP USA On Monday afternoon Managing Editor Patricia Vásquez and I changed gears and filmed seven questions The WIP wants answered by the next President of The United States. Reporting to you from behind...
Germany’s Political Debate on the Role of the Family
by Vera von Kreutzbruck Germany • Hamburg boasts pint-sized anti-Nazi graffiti. Photograph by Photocapy. •The prominent German talk show host, Eva Herman, has been in the eye of the storm ever since she praised Hitler’s promotion of motherhood in a...
Argentina’s Elections: Another First Lady Has an Excellent Chance of Becoming President on Her Own Merits
by Vera von Kreutzbruck Germany/Argentina • Sept 12 - Austria: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner meets with Austrian chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer. •Unless there is a dramatic and highly improbable last-minute shift in the voter polls, the 28th of October will prove...
From Hamburg to the World: Over 5 Million European Emigrés from The “Port of Dreams" Are Documented by New Museum
Vera von Kreutzbruck Germany • Emigrants preparing to depart from Hamburg. Photograph courtesy of Bildarchiv Denkmalschutzamt Hamburg •Nowadays the city of Hamburg in northern Germany is well-known for its monumental port, where thousands of containers depart every day from its...
Cool, Carefully Considered, Methodical, Prolonged: Terror, Torture And Deceit in The USA
by Patricia Vásquez and Katharine Daniels The WIP On August 7, 2007, The WIP, in its Byline Portal, linked to an outstanding and shocking article, “The Black Sites: A rare look inside the C.I.A.’s secret interrogation program” by Jane Mayer,...
The Role and Influence of the US President in Germany
by Vera von Kreutzbruck Germany The next president of the United States of America will undoubtedly play a major role in the international arena – as all US presidents have in past decades. But the important question is how much...
Art Against Forgetting: stumbling over Germany's sordid past
By Vera von Kreutzbruck Germany Ever since the memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe was inaugurated in Berlin two years ago, it has become a major tourist attraction. The vast monument consists of a sprawling field of 2,700 stone...
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