No cultural institution is currently more intensively engaged in helping refugees than the German theatre scene. Yet it′s still rare to find refugees taking the initiative as independent players. The Silent University aims to change all that. By Dorothea Marcus
The mural features blood dripping from plants near where downed Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh lays and teardrops falling from an eye painted next to the date of her death.
Often refugees on the German stage refugees are still merely authentic narrators of their fate, directed by established German directors. Can they produce their own material and make their own artistic voices heard? By Dorothea Marcus
The harsh sanctions on Russia could actually strengthen its desire to push Iran out of Syria. And even if the signing of the nuclear agreement has to be postponed – Iran still wants it