Thursday 7 October 2010

Linkliste unbehandelter Themen

Apart from being a terrible, man-made tragedy, the toxic red sludge that has killed at least four people in Western Hungary also leads to photographs that look like the end of the world. 

Austrian interior minister Maria Fekter signed a so-called "Rückführungs-Abkommen" with Kosovo, guaranteeing that Austria could deport migrants without a residence authorization, now that Kosovo is a safe third country.

A fake national team from Togo played a match in Bahrain (I had no idea that this is where former Austrian  national team coach Hickersberger went): what sounds like a funny story is actually a horrible tale of corruption and violence. 

Last week created a strange associative chain in my head: after police in Stuttgart used pepper spray and water cannons against protestors, a German tv network decided to air Uli Edel's Der Baader Meinhof Komplex the day before the 20th anniversary of German unification, which starts with police violence during the demonstration against the Iranian Shah in 1967 (after being very surprised by the nuanced performance of Martina Gedeck and Johanna Wokalek as Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin, I also watched Fassbinder's Die Dritte Generation, the collaborative project Deutschland im Herbst and Margarethe von Trotta's Die bleierne Zeit), and finally, Verena Becker's trial began in Stuttgart-Stammheim.

Also: The A.V. Club has an interview with Hutch Harris from The Thermals, and Caprica is finally back and it is so awesome an filled with relevant lines and interesting ideas that my head still hurts (how will I ever finish the review for cellar door?)

Oh, right, and here's a preview for Thorne, a three-part crime series based on Mark Billingham's novels. The first part called Sleepyhead is airing this Sunday and supposedly has Lily Loveless in it. She is billed as Chloe on the imdb-page for the film but there is no character with that name in the novel (which I read because, erm, I really like crime novels / am a huge nerd) - so SUSPENSE, yay [actually it's a three parter and she isn't in the first part, so EVEN MORE SUSPENSE]. 

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