Culture & Literature

“Er ist wieder da” (“Look Who’s Back”) from the director of the controversial movie “Feuchtgebiete” ("Wetlands"), David Wnendt, comes the film adaptation of the bestselling German satirical novel written by Timur Vermes. The book was published in 2012, with more than 1.4 millions of copies sold in Germany, it became not only one of the most acclaimed and most read books in modern days in the country, but it was also well received in non German-speaking nations. The book achieved the first position in the bestseller list of the German weekly news magazine, Der Spiegel, and remained at the top for other 20 consecutive weeks. It tells the absurd story of the ex-German dictator Adolf Hitler, resuscitating in modern times on the site of his former bunker in Berlin, in todays very populated d...

Steve Jobs, a man who placed a key role in defining modern technology through products such as the iMac, I pod and the I phone gets his own biopic in Steve Jobs, directed by Danny Boyle, written by Aaron Sorkin and staring Michael Fassbinder in the title role. Ironically the defining feature of this film is that it doesn’t resemblance a biopic at all. Structured in the few moments before three product launches (Apple Mactintosh, NeXT Computer, and the iMac), much of the dialogue although inspired by real conflicts Jobs had with his co-workers Steve Wozniak and John Sculley and his daughter, is invented by Sorkin and weren't spoken in real life. However the script’s wit and intensity makes up for this. Sorkin’s dialogue has a reputation as being difficult to manoeuvre for actors, but Micha...