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Pro + Anti ACTA in Leipzig

The International Book Fair in Leipzig is this weekend. Gottfried Honnefelder (“Vorsteher des Börsenvereins des Deutschen Buchhandels”) said yesterday during his opening speech that without copyright and the protection of intellectual property, the free flow of information will suffer: I … Continue reading

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Herta Müller read from her novel Atemschaukel (“Everthing I Posess I Carry With me”) @ SR2 Kulturradio

Herta Müller is obviously a master of language — the reading, which Ginger and I attended (here’s a picture of us in our seats)… was… bedrückend (that was the term I found most appropriate last night). This term is hard … Continue reading

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