Thanks to The Simpsons’ parody of Eastern European animation (remember “Worker And Parasite?”), many assume communist-era cartoons to be uniformly grim, humorless, and abstract. The Red Cartoons ...
In a panel of Jordan Gorfinkel’s “Everything’s Relative” comic strip, Holocaust survivor Zayds explains why he won’t visit Germany. “I’m trying not to remember vhut everyvun else must not forget,” ...
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) with former Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki during talks on Tehran’s nuclear program in Berlin in 2008. While it seemed as if Iran and ...
I enjoyed the recent "Freundschaft Willkommen" (friendship welcome) Jefferson City group visiting partner city in Germany cartoon in your newspaper. The fascinating thing about this cartoon is that it ...
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Cartoon Brew readers and animation festival regulars may by now be familiar with the name Fabian&Fred. The German studio has consistently produced strong, striking animated shorts — and the occasional ...
Germany, the land of Goethe, Thomas Mann and Beethoven, has an unlikely pop culture hero: Donald Duck. Just as the French are obsessed with Jerry Lewis, the Germans see a richness and complexity to ...
FROM 1946 THROUGH 1990, the Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft — known more commonly as the DEFA studio — produced thousands of films, documentaries and television shows for the German Democratic ...