My first thought when I read The Guardian article about the assault on the actor at the Bochum theater was that those were paid agitators.
I heard a recent report on The Europeans podcast about Russian intelligence recruiting disaffected young men on Telegram to committ random acts of sabotage and vandalism throughout western Europe.
Russian propaganda has been trying for several years to convince Americans that antifa is an actual organization (it's not). And now I'm starting to see suspicious antifa propaganda pop up here in Berlin -- even in my own neighborhood of Wendenschloss.
That is an interesting perspective. However, I tend to see it as likely overdramatic reporting from the Guardian.
This play has been going around quite a bit already (since 2020) and it generally leads to heated reactions - so much so that the original production has security measures in place to prevent exactly situations like the one in Bochum.
In fact, I was in a viewing in FIND 2024, and there were insults and people storming out of the room, as well as sitting at the edge of the stage. Again interestingly, the people acting out were not the Portuguese.
Regardless, this is a wonderful play and if you can, please go see it. Ideally in the original, but take whatever you can.
Oh and the original name is Catarina AND the beauty of killing fascists. No idea why they decided to translated it as "or" in German.
So the Germans always take the lowest bidder, who often go bankrupt because they were either stupid or lying when they made that low bid, and the Germans have no plan B. While the French at least for Notre Dame had 1/4 of their budget set aside for the unexpected, and spent 20% of the time allocated (1 of 5 years, for the Notre Dame rebuild) betting the contractors and bids, not just taking the lowest one. Yep, that could explain it.
My first thought when I read The Guardian article about the assault on the actor at the Bochum theater was that those were paid agitators.
I heard a recent report on The Europeans podcast about Russian intelligence recruiting disaffected young men on Telegram to committ random acts of sabotage and vandalism throughout western Europe.
Russian propaganda has been trying for several years to convince Americans that antifa is an actual organization (it's not). And now I'm starting to see suspicious antifa propaganda pop up here in Berlin -- even in my own neighborhood of Wendenschloss.
It all seems just a little too coincidental.
That is an interesting perspective. However, I tend to see it as likely overdramatic reporting from the Guardian.
This play has been going around quite a bit already (since 2020) and it generally leads to heated reactions - so much so that the original production has security measures in place to prevent exactly situations like the one in Bochum.
In fact, I was in a viewing in FIND 2024, and there were insults and people storming out of the room, as well as sitting at the edge of the stage. Again interestingly, the people acting out were not the Portuguese.
Regardless, this is a wonderful play and if you can, please go see it. Ideally in the original, but take whatever you can.
Oh and the original name is Catarina AND the beauty of killing fascists. No idea why they decided to translated it as "or" in German.
It’s incredible just how often German people can’t get things right.
I read an article here about this.
https://www.dw.com/en/why-germany-big-construction-projects-often-run-over-time-and-budget-elbphilharmonie-ber-airport/a-75206468
So the Germans always take the lowest bidder, who often go bankrupt because they were either stupid or lying when they made that low bid, and the Germans have no plan B. While the French at least for Notre Dame had 1/4 of their budget set aside for the unexpected, and spent 20% of the time allocated (1 of 5 years, for the Notre Dame rebuild) betting the contractors and bids, not just taking the lowest one. Yep, that could explain it.
Has Cotti not opened a shop on Kotti? If not, why not?
But, at those prices, it sounds dangerously like the Temu-ization of coffee...
you nailed it