Cornelia Funke tells stories of fairies and mud monsters, of adventurous girls, a gang of children in Venice ? and her stories somewhere between fantasy and adventure are Germany?s most successful literary export at the moment....
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The Olympic games belong to the athletes, not the politicians: this is the argument today, just as it was in 1936, against a boycott of the host country. Slavenka Drakulic explains her dislike of the word "Balkanisation". Elfriede Jelinek writes about the architecture of fear in Armstetten. The SZ asks whether Rem Koolhaas' CCTV tower is an "building of evil" and Jacques Herzog explains how democracy weighs heavily on an architect's dreams.
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As Wolfgang Wagner finally hands over the reins in Bayreuth, the feuilletons opine on the future of the operatic dynasty. The blogs answer to the open letter by the German music industry calling for tight internet surveillance on music downloading. Sociologist Peter Wagner is not surprised at the return of a corrupt government in Italy: it serves the interests of a corrupt populace. And the Berlin newspapers take up the case of Russian artist Anna Mikalchuk whose body was dragged up in the Spree.
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