Philip Oltermann
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Culture editor for Europe, The Guardian. Ex-Berlin bureau chief. No longer posting on here.
Berlin, Germany
Joined January 2011
‘It was incredible but it just ran over.’. This was the moment Rishi Sunak arrived for the interview having just landed back from Normandy after cutting D-Day commemorations short to return to the election campaign.
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RT @PaulBrandITV: ‘It was incredible but it just ran over.’. This was the moment Rishi Sunak arrived for the interview having just landed b….
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Exclusive: film director Mohammad Rasoulof says he is in Germany after escaping an imminent 8-year jail sentence in Iran by walking across the border on foot
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Exclusive: The director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig details how he discarded electronic devices and fled over the mountains on foot after authorities sentenced him to eight years in prison and...
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RT @oneferny: My piece in the Observer this morning about how Portugal’s 1974 Eurovision entry played an (accidental) pivotal role in the u….
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Revealed: the artwork sneaked into a German gallery by an employee – and the story behind it
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Technician, who hung his own picture in an exhibition about art world glitches, has been sacked and given a three-year ban
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RT @Samantharhill: What Hannah Arendt said about the nation-state of Israel was far more damning than anything Gessen wrote. 1) Arendt fro….
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Venice Biennale’s incoming rightwing director has art world guessing
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Meloni’s party is pleased by the appointment but Pietrangelo Buttafuoco has surprised before – not least by adopting Islam
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Adania Shibli says the speech she had prepared for her awards ceremony at the Frankfurt book fair before it was cancelled was on book banning
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Speaking out for the first time since the postponement of her award ceremony at the Frankfurt book fair, the Palestinian author sheds light on her work and the power of linguistics and erasure
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As Europe’s energy security becomes more reliant on renewables, our relationship with the elements is changing. I spoke to four artists across the continent who work with wind.
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From Barcelona breezes to blasts in Bohemia, artists are capturing and harnessing mighty winds – including a 1954 bora that blew at 100mph. Our writer grabs his cheesegrater crampons
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RT @shaunwalker7: Wrote this long piece on the deaths, violence and starvation at the Poland-Belarus border, and how an ongoing humanitaria….
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Activists helping people in forested grey zone say dehumanisation of migrants is increasing as Polish election draws nearer
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Feels like it’s time for last orders on here. Anyone got an invite for the saloon across the road?.
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Love this poster designed by Peter Fischli of Fischli/Weiss
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“Hexa-pod, hell-cat, helter-skelter, hop-scotch!”: Marlene Marder’s memoir of Swiss punk pioneers Kleenex/Liliput
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The guitarist’s diary of their formation and early tours gets its first English translation, offering funny, biting, absorbing insight into the influential band beloved by the likes of Kurt Cobain
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Graham Greene was ‘ready to go to jail for Lolita’, says Véra Nabokov’s diary
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Newly published record of the struggle to get the controversial 1955 novel past censors adds ‘there could be no better reason’
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“We are always on the look-out for something that is being created in the moment”: on promoters, the unsung heroes of German theatre
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The souffleur has all but vanished, except in Germany, where they sit in the front row – or even take to the stage. As actors are placed under huge pressure, does this really make drama more exciting?
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I ran an interview with a softly spoken Georgian filmmaker through a transcription software and it came up with this Tarantino screenplay about a Peruvian gangster with a Business & Management MSc and a subscription to Cahiers du Cinéma.
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My Long Read profile of a radical realist (on a good day)
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The long read: A year ago, Germany’s vice-chancellor was one of the country’s best-liked public figures. Then came the tabloid-driven backlash. Now he has to win the argument all over again
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Time to clear my desk. Long Read in tomorrow’s Guardian.
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The city of imminent doom: why Naples is to the 2020s what Berlin was to the 1920s and London to the 1960s
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From The Hand of God to Mixed by Erry, the novels of Elena Ferrante to the gangster smash Gomorrah, the Italian city is everywhere. What’s the appeal? We hit the ‘paradise inhabited by devils’ to...
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