Dusseldorf-based artist Thomas Schutte (born 1954) is one of the most idiosyncratic of present-day artists, venturing to deploy techniques, genres and themes long thought passe--such as the sculpturally formed female figure--in permanent materials such as bronze, aluminum and steel. Schutte began hi[...]

Thomas Bernhard is widely considered to be one of the most important German playwrights in the post-war era. Highly acclaimed, he has written over twenty plays and novels and gained a reputation as one of Austria's most controversial authors. He wrote Heldenplatz in 1988 as a response to the fiftiet[...]