An international bilingual perspective on society, culture, art and beyond. 

And there's a special focus on what's happening

in the magazine's home town, Düsseldorf, the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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TASCHEN

The auction: The castle and the rise of the working class: a timeless look at Downton Abbey (EN)

Quo Vadis Kö? Arrival of the Luxury Giants and the Role of “The Louis” (EN  /  DE)

DÜSSELDORF

Science fiction & spirituality:  Heinrich Wendel's cosmos meets Kauan Soares (EN)

PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY

“The ‘Darchinger brand’ was synonymous with reliability.”

22. July 2025

ALETHEA TALKS (DE) / (EN)

PRESS FREEDOM: Memorial to fallen journalists in Amsterdam and a list

World Press Photo and its memorial plaque (EN)

Investigative journalist Andrew Gold: ‘I hope my book will encourage people to stop judging other people because they have a different opinion.’

ALETHEA TALKS (EN)

FREEDOM OF SPEACH

Julian Assange und die Pressefreiheit. Eine kleine Chronik (DE)

Takeshi Mori, Shinjuku, ©Klaus M. Einwanger

Klaus M. Einwanger: “Taxi drivers are often the first people you meet in a foreign city.”

Photographer Klaus M. Einwanger discusses his book "Taxidrivers Written In Their Faces" documenting the precarious situation of taxi drivers worldwide. In the interview, Einwanger speaks about the social consequences of globalisation, his mission to make the rights and dignity of drivers visible, and his endeavour to capture taxi cultures worldwide as a historical record.ALETHEA TALKS (DE  /  EN)

DÜSSELDORF

ZOE: “The witch represents a self-assured woman who defies patriarchal norms, which shapes my identity.”

ZOE, whose given name is Marie-Zoe Buchholz, is an interdisciplinary performance artist and curator from Düsseldorf, who addresses the history of witch persecution through her Walpurgis Night procession at the Theatre Museum. 

4. Juni 2025

ALETHEATALKS (EN) / (DE)

TASCHEN

DÜSSELDORF

Witch Hunt and Misogyny: Düsseldorf’s Past in the Light of a Procession

On 30 April 2023, two stars of the German ballroom scene, the artists ZOE and Sophie Yukiko, revived the memory of these women with a powerful Walpurgis Night procession at the Theatre Museum Düsseldorf and drew parallels to misogyny and the #MeToo movement. (EN)

News aus Düsseldorf

ARTIST INTERVIEW

Von Jason Derulo zu Rapper Jazeek

Aufstrebender Pop Art Künstler Jero kommt nach Düsseldorf (DE)

FASHION

FDI Couture bei der Paris Fashion Week 2025. The best photos. (DE)

DÜSSELDORF

Milliardenschwerer Modestandort mit egalitärem DFD Festival  (DE)

COSMODUS

Filmregisseur Tomislav Vujcic „Auf der anderen Seite der Angst wartet etwas Wunderbares“

Düsseldorf (DE)

IN DER NACHT

Duesseldorf: Ein einziger Abend mit dem Gutnachtbus, den wir nie vergessen werden

Oktober 2024 (DE)

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Oper Düsseldorf

Der überraschende Kurswechsel. Wie man von der Signa-Insolvenz profitierte (DE)

DÜSSELDORF OPERA

The surprising switch of course (EN   /   DE)

DÜSSELDORF

STYLE

FASHION

Valentino: A Legacy of Beauty,

Reborn in Poetry

New It-Bag Model, the “Vain Bag”, Unveiled (EN)

June 2025

©Frederic Auerbach

CELEBRITY PHOTOGRAPHER

"Be as free as you can for as long as you can and photograph, photograph, photograph."

Frederic Auerbach

Courtesy of Valentino

VALENTINO

News from Gioele Amaro one of Pierpaolo Piccioli's favourite artists exhbiting in Valentinos Paris boutique.

ENVIRONMENT

ALETHEA TALKS

Benjamin von Wong

“Everyone has the opportunity to use whatever superpowers they have to make a difference.“

ENVIRONMENT

007: Who is Paul Watson and why was he arrested?

The Whaling Moratorium

and a little history

August 2024 (EN)

IN FOCUS

Günther Uecker (Germany) Untitled, 2018 Nails on wood 35 × 30 × 30 cm © Günther Uecker/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 Photo: Jack Kulcke, Düsseldorf

ART


Wood as a relic and contemporary witness of the war

The Gesamtkunstwerk "1914/1918 - Damals nicht, jetzt nicht, niemals"

is being shown again at the Kunsthalle Rostock

19 March 2024 (EN / DE)

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Benjamin von Wong

“Everyone has the opportunity to use whatever superpowers they have to make a difference.“

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CONTROVERSY

The traditional photo exhibition düsseldorf photo + is criticised

(DE    /    EN)

HISTORY

Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf and Max and Iris Stern Foundation launch new research project (EN   /    DE)

INTERNATIONAL

PEACE

"The Peace of Westphalia was a peace agreement without accusations of guilt."

German artist Volker-Johannes Trieb.  Alethea Talks 

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STYLE

Style, Fashion and more. Read more

FASHION

Valentino: A Legacy of Beauty,

Reborn in Poetry

New It-Bag Model, the “Vain Bag”, Unveiled (EN)

June 2025

©Frederic Auerbach

CELEBRITY PHOTOGRAPHER

"Be as free as you can for as long as you can and photograph, photograph, photograph."

Frederic Auerbach

Courtesy of Valentino

VALENTINO

News from Gioele Amaro one of Pierpaolo Piccioli's favourite artists exhbiting in Valentinos Paris boutique.

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Mary with Mask-New Orleans- 2020 ©James Hayman

FILMMAKER & ARTIST

James Hayman: „Being able to visually document those situations put me on a lifelong track to create photography that is socially relevant.“

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