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reader, writer, theatergoer. PhD. Into memory politics. Work in @jewishcurrents, @thebafflermag, @HypocriteRdr & elsewhere. Stage Editor @theberlinermag.

Berlin, Germany
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11 months
At this time of so much—too much—death, I wrote about the unheeded politics of Elias Canetti‘s powerful posthumous text, The Book Against Death (translated by Peter Filkins & published by @NewDirections in English), for @thebafflermag:
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Elias Canetti’s magnum opus is written against the obliteration of mass death, affirming the specificity and texture of life.
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RT @lerundio: Hermoso e inteligente ensayo sobre Adentro mío estoy bailando, a propósito del estreno norteamericano de la película 🥹.
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I wrote about The Klezmer Project, a beautiful film that plays with fact & fiction, present & past, urging us to conceive of culture beyond blood and nation, for @JewishCurrents. Thank you, Nathan & Nora, for your edits of & support for this essay, years in the making.
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Jewish Currents
5 months
The film The Klezmer Project, writes @Return2Sanders, suggests a new ethic of diasporism—rejecting both the violence of Zionism and the sentimental dream of recovering a Yiddish past. Now online from our Fall/Winter 2024 issue:.
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5 months
RT @JewishCurrents: The film The Klezmer Project, writes @Return2Sanders, suggests a new ethic of diasporism—rejecting both the violence of….
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The film The Klezmer Project suggests a new ethic of diasporism—rejecting both the violence of Zionism and the sentimental dream of recovering a Yiddish…
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6 months
RT @slowberlin: “Around a hundred years ago, hidden away at the back of a forgotten restaurant on Mitte’s Hirtenstraße—close to where the B….
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RT @Deborah_Feldman: Incredibly brave, tender, transformative film. Shame on you-know-who for inciting a lunatic mob of right-wingers on @y….
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Sanders Isaac Bernstein
6 months
Berlin has strong representation at this year’s Theatertreffen. Among the 10 most remarkable pieces this year are Hakan Savaş Mican‘s Unser Deutschlandmärchen (Maxim Gorki Theater), Florentina Holzinger‘s SANCTA (Volksbühne), and René Pollesch‘s ja nichts ist okay (Volksbühne).
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My 2024 in theatre….
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6 months
Cannibalistic nuns, electric rodeo bulls and a surprise rendition of 'Springtime for Hitler': 2024 was quite a year for theatre in Berlin. Here's hoping for more of the same! @Return2Sanders .
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6 months
RT @rachshabi: Every life, a universe
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RT @BrettMmurphy: There is a ceasefire deal, so I want to share this story from my past year reporting inside the State Dept. trying to ans….
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6 months
Costume designers might not be on stage, but their impact on the show is, as Vanessa Sampaio Borgmann says, "the first thing you see." New interview with the designer of 85 (85!) costumes for @schaubuehne's Glaube, Geld, Krieg & Liebe for @theberlinermag:
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Costumer Vanessa Sampaio Borgmann has fashioned dozens of 'fits for theatrical works, including the Schaubühne's latest hit.
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6 months
Hey Berlin Theatergoers! A question: What have been the best theatre deals (theatertage at BE, 15 Euro at DT; Platzfrei at Schaubühne etc…) that you’ve experienced in Berlin‘s theaters? Also curious about one-off giveaways… When did you get a big performance for a small fee?.
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6 months
“A man's character is his fate" has not aged well.
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RT @acocotas: My latest essay for @thebafflermag, which elaborates and expands on the piece I wrote about Jews in Germany for the magazine….
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The cosmopolitan creative class has exhausted their bohemian version of Berlin.
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7 months
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald.
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7 months
OK, it's that time of the year. What's the best book you have read in 2024?
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7 months
At DT this weekend Pınar Karabulut takes on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew: "We see a woman to whom violence is done – and it’s framed as a comedy!. look at what’s going on in Avignon with this trial right now." For @theberlinermag .
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With 'Der Zähmung Widerspenstigkeit', director Pınar Karabulut is reclaiming a Shakespearian classic with an all-female cast.
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RT @P_F_Matthews: Last week I visited Astana, Kazakhstan, for the World Nomad Games . My piece @onlinehyphen - featuring horse-meat and po….
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Held in the futuristic city of Astana, Kazakhstan, the fifth World Nomad Games were a celebration of ancient sports — with some notable allowances for modern life
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Sanders Isaac Bernstein
7 months
—another remembered name for the 'cindery darkness' which men build around themselves and in whose midst they suffer the indignities of love." —Leslie Fiedler.
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7 months
"Newark! A Florence it will never be in the minds of men, nor a Baghdad nor a Paris; but after Roth, we can hope that perhaps it will survive on library shelves ravaged by ambitious boys as another Yonville or Winesburg, Ohio. .
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7 months
This line from Berger&Bielski: "Each of us comes into the world with her or his unique possibility—which is like an aim, or, if you wish, almost like a law. The job of our lives is to become—day by day, year by year, more conscious of that aim so that it can at last be realized.".
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7 months
Here I am, disillusioned, retreating into the world of (E.T.A. Hoffman, Alexandre Dumas, and) the Nutcracker this Christmas. My latest column for @theberlinermag:
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As the holiday season approaches (and Berlin's grim culture cuts loom) out Stage Editor finds himself longing for the magic of childhood. One particular memory stands out: the annual trip to see The...
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