My latest article was published on Journal. It can be found HERE, and is for free! The ARTE-NDR docu-fiction “An Zéro” imagines Luxembourg after a nuclear disaster. Director Myriam Tonelotto speaks about how the broadcaster twisted her work into a sensationalist film that goes after the Grand-Duchy – and about the alleged attempt at suppressing her […]
Your teachers gave you the boring dates and names of long-dead politicians, and all you know about communism is that your conservative uncle uses it to describe every policy he doesn’t like. However, there is an English YouTuber who will open your eyes to the reality of the impact the Soviet Union had on many […]
Dëse Reportage gouf fir RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg produzéiert ginn, an ass den 3. Juni gelaaf. De ganze Beitrag fënnt een hei. D’Ukrain ass aktuell an engem inoffizielle Krich mat Russland, zënter der Annexioun vun der Krim-Hallefinsel duerch de Regimm vum Vladimir Putin. De Bill Wirtz war zu Lviv am Weste vun der Ukrain, a schwätzt […]
This report was translated into English by RTL Radio Luxembourg, for RTL Today. The original was a Luxembourgish radio report about the UNESCO World Heritage site in Kutna Hora, Czech Republic. At an 85km distance from Prague – which translates into roughly an hour an a half’s journey by train – makes the site a […]
Dëse Reportage ass fir RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg produzéiert ginn an ass de 29. Mee iwwerdroë ginn. De ganze Beitrag kann een hei lauschteren. Kutná Hora, op Däitsch Kuttenberg, ass eng Stad an Tschechien déi zum UNESCO-Weltkulturierwen zielt. Besonnesch bekannt ass de Sedletz-Ossarium, eng kleng Kierch an där dausende vun Doudekäpp hänken.
I was a guest in The Innocents Abroad podcast run by my friend and colleague Yaël Ossowski. We spent 40 minutes in an hotel café in Vienna, philosophising about the politics and culture of this continent. Click down below to listen to the entire episode.
Education minister Claude Meisch in a Luxembourg Times interview recently said he would require international schools to teach Luxembourgish. This is part of a coalition plan to reform the international school system, and to add affordable public international education in an effort to foster “social cohesion”.
Dieser Artikel wurde für die luxemburgische Tageszeitung “Lëtzebuerger Journal” geschrieben. Die Rubrik “ZOOM” greift junge, alternative und unternehmerische Themen auf und bringt sie den Lesern näher. (Text in veränderter Form im Print) Poetry Slam hat sich in Luxemburg in den letzten Jahren langsam aber stetig zu einer etablierten literarischen Unterhaltungsform entwickelt. Immer mehr Menschen – […]
Italy’s interior minister, Matteo Salvini, suggested this month that “ethnic shops” should not be allowed to remain open past 9 p.m. The suggestion is not only bigoted, it is also likely to worsen the state of integration in the Southern European country.
The European Parliament calls for a 30 per cent mandatory quota of European productions for audiovisual content providers, surpassing the Commission’s suggested 20 per cent. We have to call this proposal what it is: cultural protectionism.
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