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Dessau: Lanzelot review – gleefully eclectic attack on Soviet totalitarianism

One of the German Democratic Republic’s most significant composers used his opera about a dragon and a knight to question the regime

The Guardian - UK · Jan 12, 2023

‘Like being beaten with a bat’: Georg Baselitz on eye-opening art – and his true feelings about female painters

Now in his 80s but as fiery as ever, the German provocateur talks about his pride at being a ‘degenerate’ artist, painting his wife nude – and revisits his assertion that: ‘Women don’t paint very well’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2022

Red poets’ society: the secret history of the Stasi’s book club for spies

For seven years, the East German security service’s poetry group met in Berlin to discuss literature. But there was more to it than just learning about iambic pentameter

The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2022