ART
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DESTINEE ROSS-SUTTON & LAW ROACH
VOGUE: New York gallerist, curator, activist, and muse Destinee Ross-Sutton chats with style architect Law Roach about collective competition, cave murals vs. Instagram, mandarin duck feathers, stylish uncles, and the high art of thrifting.
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THE AGE OF ME: DOUGLAS COUPLAND, HANS ULRICH OBRIST AND SHUMON BASAR
PIN-UP: Interview with curator Shumon Basar on the concept of the Extreme Self in the wake of rapidly accelerating technological change.
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JULIAN SCHNABEL
LH EXCLUSIVE: Studio visit at renaissance man Julian Schnabel’s Venetian castle, his latest Van Gogh movie, surfing, and his enduring provocative reflexes.
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MAX HOLLEIN - DIRECTOR OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
LUFTHANSA-MAGAZINE: Max Hollein on reframing history while celebrating the 150th anniversary of New York’s grande dame, the Metropolitan Museum.
FASHION
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UGBAD ABDI
VOGUE: Ugbad Abdi, the Somali-American model who brought the hijab to the catwalk.
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TELFAR
DIE WELT: How Designer Telfar Clemens, impresario Babak Radboy, and stylist Avena Gallagher reframed luxury and shook Anna Wintour from her Snow White slumber.
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DAPPER DAN
DIE WELT: The surprising comeback of the design icon who shaped the style of New York Hip Hop. About late justice, Harlem, Gucci patterns, and the dynamic force of Olympic sprinter Diane Dixon.
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AYZIT BOSTAN
DIE WELT: Ayzit Bostan, the German designer and artist of Turkish decent Designerin on her minimalist visual grammar, flags, Erdogan, and sensuality.
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GABRIELA HEARST
VOGUE: Interview with the designer on her growing up in the Uruguayan hinterland on sustainability, luxury, and the delights of supermarket mayo.
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RAF SIMONS x MIKE D
INTERVIEW magazine: Fashion designer Raf Simons and Beastie Boy Mike D about the haptics of playing guitar, stage freight, and the movie “Puss in Boots.”
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EDIE CAMPBELL
VOGUE Interview: Edie Campbell, Rebellin aus gutem Hause über Pferde, Greenwashing und das englische Landleben.
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OSLO GRACE
VOGUE : Model Activist Oslo Grace setzt sich für Aufklärung um Gendernormen ein. Wie auch Alec Wek, Herieth Paul, Jacqueline Jablonski, Josephine Skriver und Candice Huffine ihre Plattform für Aktivismus nutzen.
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CHARLOTTE CASIRAGHI
VOGUE Interview: Gespräch mit der freiwillig exkommunizierten Monegassin über ihr Philosophisches Institut, Julia Kristeva, Mutterschaft und die Falltüren von Social Media.
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HEATHER KEMESKY & ERIKA LINDER
VOGUE: Die beiden Models über ihre öffentliche Liebe, künstlerische Ambitionen und die hohe Kunst des Blaumachens.
CULTURE
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LESLIE JAMISON
CICERO: Cultural critic, writer, and thinker Leslie Jamison and her ideas on authenticity, Las Vegas, alcohol, Second Life, und plastic princesses.
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TREVOR NOAH
DIE WELT: Trevor Noah, the “The Daily Show’s” unlikely anchor on Nelson Mandela, Swiss fathers, and freedom of choice who to hate.
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JUTTA KOETHER
NUMÉRO: For over 30 years German painter Jutta Koether has been fighting epic battles against male dominance in the canon of art history. In her first comprehensive retrospective at Museum Brandhorst she comes full circle.
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SIRI HUSTVEDT
DIE DAME: Siri Hustvedt is a writer, essayist, neuroscientist, and progressive feminist first and married to Paul Auster second. A conversation about female rage, racism, and pussy-grabbers.
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KIM GORDON
DIE WELT: Sonic Youth’s guitarist Kim Gordon autobiography and the men in her life: Kurt Cobain, Thurston Moore, Gerhard Richter, and Marc Jacobs.
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
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PIN-UP: The Mexican ingenue Frida Escobedo is the designer of the 2018 Serpentine Gallery Pavillion. The erudite architect with voracious intellectual appetites brings economy of form to complex architectural ideas.
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PIN-UP: Curator Adrian Lahoud on tradition, generational rights, and advocacy at the first iteration of the Triennial of the charming Gulf State.
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PIN-UP: After working with Tadao Ando the Bangkok born architect took the world of museum architecture by storm. He takes his no-nonsense approach – on budget and on time – from the culinary: you can’t bullshit with food.
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LUFTHANSA: Eero Saarinen’s 1962 revamped TWA terminal at JFK, a destination.
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VOGUE: With the soaring Aqua Tower in Chicago Jeanne Gang has defined Chicago’s skyline. On phallus architecture, criminal justice, and marine life, and the art of failing constructively.
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LINDSEY ADELMAN
ICON: Lindsey Adelman’s sensual light installations, the power of meditation, and pandemic creative community.
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DOILIES
PIN-UP: A brief history of the lacy domestic snowflakes from antimacassar to pointelle sophistication.
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PFIZER HOUSE
DIE DAME: Hausbesuch bei der Filmemacherin Dana Ben-Ari in ihrem Brooklyn Herrenhaus, das einst dem Pharmatycoon Charles Pfizer gehörte: halb Villa Kunterbunt, halb Museum für moderne Kunst.
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CALIFORNIA MODERN
CYBEX: A conversation with Felix Burrichter, editor in chief of PIN-UP magazine, on modernism, Madonna, Richard Neutra, and the impact of photographer Julius Shulman on staging California.
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CYRIL DUVAL
DIE WELT: Hausbesuch im Spielzimmer der Kapitalismus des New Yorker Künstlers Cyril Duval.
WORLD
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AFGHAN STANDOFF
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE: Embedded with Nato troops in Afghanistan. War games in Kabul, Kunduz, and Mazar-I-Sharif.
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DELIRIOUS PHNOM PENH
ILikeMyStyle: The Khmer architect Vann Mollyvan once dreamt up a modern capital of Cambodia on the shores of the Mekong.
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BREAKFAST AT AL-MASRIS
QVEST: At home in Nablus with one of Palestine’s richest men and late Yassir Arafat’s loyal buddy.
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KUNST IN TEHERAN
MONOPOL: A trip to Tehran’s vibrant art scene, the defined double-speak of Iranian elites and Farah Dibas extravagant modern art collection.
CINEMA
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SUSPIRIA
DIE WELT: Luca Guadagnignos Remake Dario Argentos Horrorklassikers ein blutleeres Blutbad das auch Dakota Johnson in der Hauptrolle und Tilda Swinten in dreifacher Besetzung (Tilda über Alles!) nicht zu retten vermögen.
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MARIE-LOUISE KHONDJI
DIE DAME: Die französische New Yorkerin Marie-Louise Khondji hat mit ihrer On-line Plattform Le Cinéma Club das Kino neu erfunden.
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ZERO DARK THIRTY
DIE WELT: Kathryn Bigelows düsterer Thriller um die Jagd auf Osama Bin Laden.
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KRISTEN STEWARD & LARS EIDINGER
VOGUE Gespräch: Die beiden Schauspieler über ihre Performance Techniken, Karl Lagerfeld, Macbeth und die Schockwirkung des Flüsterns.
SCENT
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KENZO WORLD
ICON: Der Werbefilm zum neuen Duft von Kenzo von Caroline Lim und Humberto Leon führte ihr alter Freund Spike Jonze Regie. Darstellerin Margaret Qualley beweist: das Auge riecht mit.
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ROZU BY AESOP
PIN-UP: Perfumer Barnabé Fillion took inspiration from the French architect and Designer Charlotte Perrigand for the creation of a new spin on a classic fragrance.
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COMME DES GARCONS
ICON: Christian Astuguevielles schaft mit dem eigenwilligen Concrète Brutalismus four die Nase.
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TOM FORD'S LOST CHERRY
VOGUE: Tom Ford überrascht an der Seite seiner neuen Anti-Fashion Muse Celeste Barber mit einem neuen frechen Duft.
Novel
CRITICS
“Thomas Pynchon am Hindukusch.”
Tobias Lehmkuhl, Deutschlandfunk
“Identität, Sehnsucht nach, Zugehörigkeit, Definition von Männlichkeit, mit jedem Szenenwechsel ändert sich die Kameraeinstellung. Logisch, jeder Protagonist hat eine eigene Perspektive. Immer wieder changieren Wahrnehmung und Realität, Trauma, Missbrauch, sexuelle Phantasien – das Ringen mit alldem eint die Protagonisten.”
Frauke Siebel, mdr
“Mit ‚Oder sind es Sterne‘ ist ihr ein sprachgewaltiges Debüt gelungen, das aus drei ganz verschieden gestalteten Perspektiven erzählt ist und vor allem durch seine außergewöhnlichen Bilder und die dadurch entstehende Atmosphäre überzeugt."
Sabine Zaplin, B5 Neues vom Buchmarkt
“Mit wohltuender Leichtigkeit und mit hoffnungsvollem Humor vertieft Munz dieses so hochkomplexe politische Thema…. verknüpft die Macht von Kultur, die Wucht hysterischer Ideologie und den Zauber von Popmusik mit der Suche nach dem persönlichen Platz in der Welt. Wahnsinnig gut!“
Peter Seiler, WDR 2
Munz’ Erzählweise entwickelt durch Detailgenauigkeit und eine außerordentlich starke Bildsprache einen so starken Sog, dass man sich ihm kaum entziehen kann. In Oder sind es Sterne ist nur wenig das, was es zu sein scheint.
Larissa Siebicke, Kommbuch
“Eine spannende neue Stimme in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur mit internationalem Ansatz.”
Ulrich Noller, WDR 1
“Eva Munz bringt in ihrem Debütroman die Enden der Welt zueinander und verschränkt die verschiedensten Horizonte. Und zeigt so, was Literatur kann, wenn man sie lässt.“”
Anne Waak, Cicero
“"Eva Munz ist mit ihrem Debütroman 'Oder sind es Sterne' eine ebenso vielschichtige wie politisch erhellende Erzählung über unsere Gegenwart und jüngste Vergangenheit gelungen."
VOGUE
"Ein leiser Titel für diesen rasanten Roman zu einem aktuellen Thema: Afghanistan. (…) Drei Menschen, ganz unterschiedlich geprägt, mit ihren Träumen und Ängsten, werden in Abenteuer hineingezogen, die sie nicht überblicken. Wem können sie trauen? Wie selbstbestimmt können sie sein in dieser heillosen Welt?"
Irmtraud Gutschke, der Freitag
“Dieser Roman hat mir die Welt neu erklärt. Ich habe gelernt, gelitten und laut gelacht.”
Jackie Thomae, Autorin von Brüder
“Ein Roman wie ein Marschflugkörper, leise und plötzlich, machtvoll und extrem präzise. Ein Vergnügen!”
Henning Kober, Autor von Unter diesem Einfluss
“Blitzschnell, tieftraurig, vierdimensional und suprisingly romantic. Page-turner!”
Adriano Sack, Autor von Breites Wissen
ILikeMyStyle Magazine
In 2009, Adriano Sack and I founded ILikeMyStyle Quarterly. A printed zine 250+ pages and a circulation of 25K copies distributed at select newsstands and bookstores around the world. It was the first user-generated fashion magazine created by an online community. Ilikemystyle.net predated Instagram by a few years. Art director Judith Banham of Middlecott Design, Detroit combed our platform for the most brilliant content and we curated pieces from its most flamboyant users. The magazine took a critical look at the fashion discourse and questioned traditional media hierarchies. Both online and magazine content shaped an irreverent, rebellious community interested in clothes, art, body, and sex that shunned elitist notions of the industry. It was a true people’s magazine as it celebrated the glamour of real (and totally surreal) personalities and showcased new forms of expressions revolving around style from all over the world.
In 2011 Ilikemystyle was awarded Gold at the Lead Awards as "Newcomer Magazine of the Year".
DER FREUND
Der Freund was a German literary magazine published in Kathmandu’s Freak Street, no small feat since Nepal was blessed with one of the slowest internet connections of the world. I wrote a column portraying Ladies I knew, of obscure fame such as Carmen Bin Ladin and Ma Anand Sheela, who you might have seen in the documentary Wild, Wild, Country.
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DR. RUTH WESTHEIMER
DER FREUND: Damen, die ich kannte - Portrait der New Yorker Sextherapeutin, die einst mit dem Kindertransport den Nazis entrann.
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CARMEN BIN LADIN
DER FEUND: Damen, die ich kannte - Portrait der Schwägerin Osama bin Ladins, die am Genfer See geschieden vom saudischen Clan im Exil lebt.
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MA ANAND SHEELA
DER FREUND: Damen, die ich kannte Portrait der rechten Hand Oshos, die in US-Bundesstaat Oregon den Ashram Rajneeshpuram leitete. Famous quote: “Tough Titties”
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MADALENA CHAN
DER FREUND: Damen, die ich kannte – Portrait der Hong Konter Filmproduzentin Madalena Chan, die einst die Filme Bruce Lees produzierte.
THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH
KIM JONG IL’s NORTH KOREA
In 2006 I traveled with Lukas Nikol and Christian Kracht on a tour group for cinema aficionados to the DPRK. Apart from watching unseen gems of films shot in the Juche tradition, we were seduced by the uncanny setting untouched by capitalism and somehow became part of the staging of a nation. Back home (then Bangkok) we illustrated our photographs with quotations by the Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il from his groundbreaking textbook The Art of Cinema.
Art direction by Judith Banham @ Middlecott Design
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DIE TOTALE ERINNERUNG
KIM JONG ILS NORDKOREA
Rogner & Bernhard, 2006
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THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH
KIM JONG ILS NORTH KOREA
Feral House, 2007
FAQs
Who is Eva Munz?
I’m a writer, filmmaker, and educator with a soft spot for aesthetics, propaganda, feminism, cults, and psychoanalysis. I organize memory through the lens of cinema. I’ve been called names. Troublemaker is one of my favorites. I’m hardwired to question the status quo, and where some suspect conflict, I see discourse. Although I write for established media, I’m always game for copywriting, company communications, website content, your grandmother’s funeral speech, or love letters. I believe in ghosts and ghostwriting. Hire me!
Where has she been published?
I’m a columnist at Axel Springer’s intellectual flagship, Welt am Sonntag, on my passion for long-distance running. In the trice-weekly pieces, I reflect on the vibrant athletic community in New York City and the implications of running while female. My writing has also been published in magazines such as VOGUE, PIN-UP, Interview, Lufthansa magazine, VICE, Bidoun, die dame, and in my own glossy zine, ILikeMyStyle. I write for newspapers like Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and Zeit.
What’s up with The New School?
As an adjunct professor at The New School’s Parsons School of Design. Together with students and future innovators, we’re discussing some of the urgent questions of our times. In Navigating the Field, we develop narrative frameworks and networking strategies for students to launch their careers. In the course Creative Team Dynamics: Identity and Change, we envision playbooks of co-creation while remaining critical, independent thinkers.
Is she a filmmaker or a writer?
I’m a multi-disciplinary media professional using creative writing techniques across a variety of platforms. In my over 20 years of professional experience, I’ve put together and led diverse teams across the world. I studied Communications and Political Sciences at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and later in the prestigious directing program at the Munich Academy of Film and Television (HFF). My short films and screenplay writing often explores feminism and science fiction. In Asia, I made a living directing TV commercials for Pan-Asian markets.
Where is she really from?
I’m a German citizen. My father was an immigrant from Romania, my mother is German. I spent my wild and happy childhood in southern Italy and went to school in France for a while. I worked on a movie in Switzerland and the UK before taking off to New Delhi in the late 90s. Later, I moved to Bangkok with extended stints in Kathmandu, Shanghai, and Sri Lanka. There were always bags to be packed and flights to board. Swimming in the Persian Gulf under the stars was fun, and the International Film Festival of Pyongyang was life-changing. I write in German and English and speak Italian, French, and Thai. I’m now happily based in New York City with my Green Card and collection of artificial eyes.
Wait!? She actually went to the DPRK?
When George W Bush coined the term Axis of Evil in his 2002 State of the Union Address, I vowed to visit all of them within five years. I started with Iran and North Korea but ultimately fell short of my target.
What else does she do?
I’m a long-distance runner and a sleepwalker.