German FAZ: A life in the disaster blues007020

“Everyone moved away,” says the main character in Jim Jarmusch’s film “Only Lovers Left Alive” (2013) about Detroit. This laconic sentence testifies to the decline of a place that was once the undisputed industrial center of North America. Once known as the “Motor City” or the Paris of the Midwest, Detroit evolved over the second… Continue reading German FAZ: A life in the disaster blues007020

German FAZ: A life in the disaster blues007020

“Everyone moved away,” says the main character in Jim Jarmusch’s film “Only Lovers Left Alive” (2013) about Detroit. This laconic sentence testifies to the decline of a place that was once the undisputed industrial center of North America. Once known as the “Motor City” or the Paris of the Midwest, Detroit evolved over the second… Continue reading German FAZ: A life in the disaster blues007020