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GERMANY: Alternative sources can challenge Merkel's polished self-image. For example, the closeness to the GDR regime in terms of both herself and her father. The message is that Angela Merkel has destroyed the CDU and is responsible for the political, economic and cultural problems Germany is currently struggling with. Much of the criticism from the right also touches on the Stasi. Merkel has underemphasised the collaboration between herself and the GDR regime.

POEM: Politically, Olav Nygard seems to have been in line with his friends, the cultural leaders Arne and Hulda Garborg, who complained about materialism and capitalism.

LITERATURE: It is time to come to terms with the absence metaphysics of Georg Johannesen (GJ), Arnfinn Åslund and Arild Linneberg. The metaphysics of absence, the alleged incomprehensibility, was the basis for GJ to ride his own fads. This is a basic structure in GJ's own rhetorical control technique.

AXEL JENSEN: Torgrim Eggen balances in a reading party of a biography on the tight line between Axel Jensen's life and work.

The polemic who goes crazy, but who never fails verbally, the competitor and the energetic poet. And above all, a golden humor shines.

Although cultural radicals are allowed to review Kaj Skagen's assessment of "the Norwegian", much of the thinking in the book comes from one of its foremost representatives, namely Jens Bjørneboe. 

An intense tenderness emerges, but also an anger on behalf of the child Kate.

The official and the spirit man Dag Hammarskjöld were not opposites but enriched each other mutually, according to his biographer Roger Lipsey.

Peter Weiss' political horizon has no topicality. But he was one of the greatest writers of the 1900 century.