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Hans-Georg Kohler

Kohler is a regular reviewer for Ny Tid. Artist.
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China's digital glasses

Chinese security authorities have begun to equip the police with "digital glasses" and are already sitting on a data bank where the faces of 1,3 billions of adult people in the country are digitally stored.
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Germany's new digital inquisition

Anyone who has seen the movie The Other's Lives About the Monitoring in the GDR state knows that East German authorities could lend their unruly craft to their fingertips. Now, the reunited Federal Republic is introducing comprehensive statutory surveillance with the help of new digital spy programs.
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Monster with billions of eyes

The United States can soon gain global access to all private data traffic abroad each time Microsoft, Google or similar companies are used.
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The imminent death of anonymity

The "Freiheit Statt Anxiety" action group protests against increasing surveillance measures in Berlin. But a lot indicates that people want the monitoring.
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An epic friendship

A new exhibition at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin shows the complicated relationship between the thinker Walter Benjamin and the poet Bertolt Brecht.
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Berlin: Theater occupation against capitalism

In Berlin, there is now a gentrification and capitalist upheaval that is changing the city from an arsenal of art and creativity to a place for the well-to-do. It does not go unnoticed.
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The confessions of an apolitical girl

Goebbels' self-proclaimed apolitical secretary tells his version of historical events. The result is an important document for posterity, but is this all we need?
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Varoufakis' visionary Europe plan

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis no longer wants to save only his own country – now the whole EU is up for grabs.
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Devil expulsion at Rosa Luxemburg Platz

Frank Castorf has been an admired and controversial theater director for many years. Now he has set up a seven-hour farewell performance that will make the audience gasp.
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