Few golfers left as lasting a mark on 20th-century golf as Samuel Jackson “Sam” Snead. With his distinctive, flowing swing that earned him the nickname …
Marlene Dietrich & Erich Maria Remarque: Exiles between war and love
One might wonder whether the writer Erich Maria Remarque had any idea that his novels would not be the only works he would leave to …
Ben Hogan: The determination to play golf
There is hardly another golfer of the 20th century who influenced golf in the same way as Ben Hogan: his typical “Ben Hogan swing” in …
Comics, mangas, animes – why is it that Goethe was fascinated by illustrated stories?
When one thinks of an animated series in the western world, one inevitably associates it with entertainment for children: the Japanese form of “animation” is …
The History of Vinyl: It sizzles like a fire
It is much easier to make files available on a computer than to produce a vinyl record: There was a time when the vinyl record …
The History of Pizza
It’s Italy’s national dish: the pizza. As early as 1,000 years ago, there was already the word pizza in Latin, which at that time referred …
The castles of King Ludwig II
“An eternal riddle I shall remain to myself and others (…)” wrote King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the actress Marie Dahn-Hausmann in 1876. To …
Katharine Hepburn: Kate the Great
It was at the end of the thirties when Katharine Hepburn was put on the list of actors considered “box office poison”: Back in 1937, …
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.
Marlene Dietrich and Jean Gabin: A Relationship Scarred by War (2.)
After Marlene had said goodbye to Jean, she returned to Hollywood, feeling lonely without her lover, whom she hadserved French cuisine almost daily. In the past, she had toured to sell war bonds – the “USO“ had recently been founded, an Organization whose mission was to keep up the morale of front-line troops through entertainment.