Noël Coward grew up at a time when British theater culture was experiencing its first ever upswing: in 1895, four years before Coward’s birth, Queen …
Barbara: The Singing Pianist
This article is published on the 25th anniversary of Barbara’s death on 24 November 2022. Her chansons all had autobiographical features: there was no such …
Max Colpet: Where Have All The Words Gone
The German translation of the socially critical song Where Have All The Flowers Gone was penned by him: Marlene Dietrich made the song known to …
Leonard Cohen: The poet
He was one of the most influential singer-songwriters of modern music history: Leonard Cohen. After Cohen studied in New York for one year from 1956 …
Karen Blixen: The Storyteller
How does it feel to sit in your house in the evening and wait for the rain to water your coffee plants? Karen Blixen knew.
Michael Jackson: His intellectual legacy
Michael Jackson not only was a singer, dancer, composer, and actor: the King of Pop‘s intellectual legacy has received little to no attention.In his poetry …