Celebrating Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) is one of the most important female sculptors and printmakers of the 20th century.

2017 – a year of uncertainty

There is a time to be silent and a time to speak.

Stone, Paper, Scissors…

Believe it or not a Paper Scissors Stone Club was founded in England in 1842.

Leonard Cohen: Casting light in the darkness

Leonard Cohen turned to songwriting because he wasn’t making a living as a writer. He never looked back.

October

A season of melancholy for poets, autumn is often made magical by the blue skies of October.

Tiger, tiger…

At the beginning of the 19th century there were 40,000 tigers in the world. Today, around 4,000 are left in the wild, more than half of them in India.

The musical surgeon: Theodor Billroth

On the streets of Vienna in the mid-1880s, you could bump into Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, or Gustav Mahler.