Contemporary artist Sükran Moral has long been an outspoken critic of women's place in Turkish society. And she has often feared for her safety as a result. Her work is now on display in Berlin and she insists her themes are universal. "This is about violence against women," she says.
Hesse's premier Roland Koch presented the Hessian Culture Prize (Hessischer Kulturpreis) in the city of Wiesbaden on Thursday evening. Winners of the award, which is endowed with 45,000 euros ($67,000) are Catholic Cardinal and Bishop of Mainz Karl Lehmann, Church President of the Hesse-Nassau Evangelical Church Peter Steinacker, Vice-President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Salomon Korn, as well as the German-Iranian writer and Islamic scholar Navid Kermani. Kermani had been chosen as one of the winners earlier this year, but then temporarily dropped from the list in May after Cardinal Karl Lehmann and Peter Steinacker objected to sharing the prize with him. They accused Kermani, a Cologne-based writer who was born in Iran, of attacking the cross as a central Christian symbol.
Hesse's premier Roland Koch presented the Hessian Culture Prize (Hessischer Kulturpreis) in the city of Wiesbaden on Thursday evening. Winners of the award, which is endowed with 45,000 euros ($67,000) are Catholic Cardinal and Bishop of Mainz Karl Lehmann, Church President of the Hesse-Nassau Evangelical Church Peter Steinacker, Vice-President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Salomon Korn, as well as the German-Iranian writer and Islamic scholar Navid Kermani.
Kermani had been chosen as one of the winners earlier this year, but then temporarily dropped from the list in May after Cardinal Karl Lehmann and Peter Steinacker objected to sharing the prize with him. They accused Kermani, a Cologne-based writer who was born in Iran, of attacking the cross as a central Christian symbol.
IPI: No Contract Extension for ZDF Editor-in-Chief Nikolaus Brender
With a vote of nine to five, the Advisory Board of Germany's public broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) on Friday blocked the contract extension of the TV station's current editor-in-chief Nikolaus Brender, raising serious concerns of political interference at the public broadcaster. [...] Roland Koch, Prime Minister of the German State of Hesse and the ZDF Advisory Board member who allegedly organised the majority to vote against Schächter's stated choice of editor-in-chief, has stated that falling viewing figures for certain ZDF broadcasts were behind his decision.
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Roland Koch, Prime Minister of the German State of Hesse and the ZDF Advisory Board member who allegedly organised the majority to vote against Schächter's stated choice of editor-in-chief, has stated that falling viewing figures for certain ZDF broadcasts were behind his decision.
With a vote of nine to five, the Advisory Board of Germany's public broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) on Friday blocked the contract extension
Checking German articles, that's wrong. Nine to five would have been the margin needed for contract extension, but the vote went seven to seven. There is some positive in that: the CDU/CSU has nine votes, so two rebelled against Koch. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
But someone has to bring the action. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
Like in most countries in the region, in Hungary, such games have a long tradition. At one time, there was will to stop this somehow, and the public radio and television oversight boards were expanded to include non-political appointees, nominated by NGOs. However, the Right gamed the system with partisan NGOs, and had a virtual majority even under the nominal center-left government.
The latest round, just in this month: the providers of the morning news show [one boycotted by the leader of main opposition party Fidesz] were kicked out, and a new, Fidesz-close team took over. Now the boycotting turned 180 degrees -- and the government withdrew state support for the puvblic television...
However, the two main parties had no scrupples to collude when, also in the past month, the two main FM radio frequencies were re-tendered: the radios using it until now lost, and one Socialist- and one Fidesz-close company were awarded. (Because there was US capital in one of the ditched radios, even the US Congress issued a protest.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
