“I can conceıve of no better servıce… than boldly exposıng the weakness, lıabılıtıes and ınfınıte corruptıons of democracy.” By Maria Popova   “Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive,” Zadie Smith wrote in her spectacular essay on optimism and despair. The illusion of permanent progress …

FRÜHLING / SPRING PRODUCTION Together with eyecatchproductions we recently finished the production of “Frühling” (Spring/Printemps), the newest animated short directed by Moritz Mayerhofer. The film is currently traveling the festival circuit. SYNOPSIS After a long winter a bee is looking for spring. Based on the classic poem “It is Spring” by Eduard Moerike (1829), musically interpreted by …

By Stephen Greenblatt NEW YORKER May 7, 2020   Shakespeare lived his entire life in the shadow of bubonic plague. On April 26, 1564, in the parish register of Holy Trinity Church, in Stratford-upon-Avon, the vicar, John Bretchgirdle, recorded the baptism of one “Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere.” A few months later, in the same register, the …