The City: The Berlin photo agency Ostkreuz has documented the development and decay of cities in a long term project. The pictures they have produced lie between utopia and nightmares. Christoph Valentien: The Landscape Architect of Shanghai. A ring of laurel trees from all the continents forms the basic idea for the new Botanical Garden in Shanghai. Christa Wolf's New Novel: Christa Wolf is a writer from the former East Germany. She was a victim of the communist system, but also a secret police informant. The novel «City of Angels or the Overcoat of Dr. Freud» is a semi-fictional work and the first novel she has published in many years. Obsessed with Africa: Playwright and theater director Christoph Schlingensief has immersed himself in Africa for many months. He is now touring Europe with his opera "Via Intolleranza II", in which African actors play a central role.

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