EM GUIDE — Kolumne Gefühle und Gedanken zu einer Welt, deren Umriss mir nicht mehr gefällt

IT HAS PLAYED OUT – OR: THE TRUMPIZATION OF EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING

Spring 2025 doesn’t make it easy to believe that things will be better this year and in the coming years than in 2024, 2023, 2022 and ….
On the contrary: the disastrous cultural policy decisions in Cologne and Berlin, where the budget debates not only resulted in cuts to important institutions and projects, but also in some cases in complete liquidation orders (see the Cologne Academy of the Arts of the World), bode ill for German cultural policy after last weekend’s depressing election.
Current events in the USA are rightly fueling fears that even more massive cuts to social and cultural projects are looming here too and that regressive policies in general will make a mockery of the important progress made in recent years and decades. These fears are exacerbated by the speed with which many companies (such as Meta, Google, Target, McDonald’s) are prepared to discontinue their diversity and sustainability programs.

But you don’t have to look that far to feel pessimistic; even in their own environment, more and more people are acting in a selfish, egocentric or even aggressive, careerist manner in the face of tougher economic conditions – probably because they always have been, but didn’t notice it in more relaxed economic times, but perhaps also because they finally feel liberated by the new circumstances and don’t have to hide it. You can definitely say that: Trump has given many – in my world of experience it is significantly always men – a carte blanche, which they gratefully accept.

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Record of the Week meets Hospital Trauma

Pulp in the hospital

In the 47th year of the band's existence, Pulp landed their first number one hit in the United Kingdom with their eighth album ‘More’ (in Germany it reached number 9). However, what was supposed to be a normal record review turned into a week-long deep listening trauma for Thomas Venker due to a failed routine operation. …

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A look back on PS 2025 in 20 pictures

Primavera Sound 2025

Uv Lucas documented this year's Primavera Festival for Kaput. If you weren't there yourself, you'll …

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EM GUIDE – 34.sk – Verena Hahn

Forsberg, Mede & Nareswari: The Pain of not sharing a Language

WHEN ADELA MEDE, MARTA FORSBERG AND NINDYA NARESWARI MET UP FOR THIS INTERVIEW IN LATE JANUARY 2025,…

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Interview

Heiner Goebbels: Signature / No Signature Papers

“Complexity, polyphony, brokenness,” is Heiner Goebbels' answer to the question of what music mu…

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EM GUIDE – Easterndaze – Jakub Knera

15 Central and Eastern European festivals you need to attend

From abandoned sanatoriums to fields and disused mills, these festivals and their places become acou…

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Kaput Video

Deep Talk Holding Pattern & Moving Bodies”

The exhibition Holding Pattern is the result of an invitation from Anne Hilde Neset (Oslo) to the aw…

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EM GUIDE – caroline – Interview

Jasper Llewellyn (caroline) “It’s like less pensive and contemplative. In a way, it feels more hectic”

In an interview with Kaput author Lennart Brauwers, leading band member/multitalent Jasper Llewellyn…

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