Angst is best understood as an indefinite fear. Underlying all Angst is the fear of death. There is another word in German that designates the fear of something specific, such as a father’s fear that ...
GREGORY RODRIGUEZ is an Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation. Berlin — IF U.S. CULTURE is an unusual mix of chauvinism and innocence, then German culture can best be described as an odd ...
Sales include Taiwan and Scandinavia. International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) (Jan 21-Feb 1) isn’t known as a genre festival but that hasn’t stopped the programming of portmanteau horror pic ...
Paris-based Reel Suspects has sold North American rights to non-stock horror triptych “German Angst” to Raymond Murray’s Artsploitation Films. Described by Artsploitation as “mystical and disturbing,” ...
With all eyes focused on Gamescom this week, editor of GamesIndustry.biz Germany, Christoph Holowaty, takes a look at the nation's anxiety over violent content, and the local media's reaction to the ...
An exhibition in Bonn focuses on the fears of Germans, demonstrating how certain topics such as immigration and surveillance had already been portrayed as threats decades ago. Angst: The German term ...
German angst and catastrophic modernity: switching off nuclear power Germany's decision to decommission its nuclear power stations is the outcome of a half century of anxiety about technocratic ...
A German-Jewish comedy: Sounds crazy, no? But “Go for Zucker” is just that: a comedy about two Berlin brothers – one pious, the other a playboy – who reunite to reap an inheritance. Making it wasn’t ...