It’s not always easy to like Picasso the man. He treated others, especially women, as provisional muses who could be … More

DW-TV’s documentary (2010) follows the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen as they go through an intensive three months of rehearsals in the … More

Paul Klee, the wildly imaginative and influential artist of the 20th century, is presented in this rather somber and slow … More

Born in 1840, Thomas Hardy developed into a consummate writer and one of England’s greatest novelists. At Max Gate (a … More

Not all subjects of documentaries are well suited for the medium. The story of some artists can be better and … More

Is any act ever completely selfless? It’s a rather popular question — though not a particularly interesting one, if you … More

Bold and ambitious to a degree which could have easily wrecked his plans for a dominant Prussia, Frederick the Great … More

Forget about where one might stand theologically, there are a multiplicity of ways to tell the story of Martin Luther … More

Of the seven and a half billion people on the planet, only the most minute fraction of beings have the … More

The Romans had a name for Frederick I, the man who entered their territory and was crowned emperor by Pope … More

Otto I, who became Holy Roman Emperor in 962, doesn’t have the same place in the popular imagination as his … More

If any example were ever needed to show that near polar-opposite traits can emanate from a single human being, Charlemagne … More