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Arts

Dossier: Go backstage

Elena Vostrotina dances in Swan Lake in Dresden

It's the artists on stage who enjoy the applause, but their performances wouldn't be possible without the work of many others, long before the curtain rises. In a special series, DW-RADIO's Arts on the Air introduces you to the unseen artists whose work behind the scenes makes for magic on stage.

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Berlin Philharmonic's director of productions

Choreographer in Germany

Dancer in Portugal

Make-up artist in Switzerland

Set and costume designer in Germany

Opera extra in Italy

Stage manager in Britain

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Antoni Tapies posing in front of one of his artworks

Spanish artist Tapies dies at 88 07.02.2012

Antoni Tapies, hailed as the "last great artist of the 20th century," has died. The Spanish painter and sculptor was 88.
A soldier from World War I

Crowdsourcing: writing history on the Internet 03.02.2012

Internet users have been generating content on social networks for a long time. Now, archives and libraries are tapping into that resource to fill information gaps.

Die polnische Lyrikerin Wislawa Szymborska am 15.10.1996 bei einem Spaziergang durch Krakau, wo sie seit 1931 zurückgezogen lebt. Die 73jährige, Trägerin renommierter internationaler Auszeichnungen wie dem Goethe-Preis der Stadt Frankfurt und dem Herder-Preis, wird am 10.12. in Stockholm mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur ausgezeichnet. Mit insgesamt neun Gedichtbänden, die in den mehr als 50 Jahren ihres poetischen Schaffens in Polen entstanden sind, hat sich Szymborska den unangefochtenen Ruf der "ersten Dame der polnischen Poesie" erworben. Ihre Rede zur Verleihung des Goethe-Preises 1991 stand unter dem für ihr Werk wegweisenden Motto "Ich schätze Zweifel".

Polish Nobel poet Szymborska dies, aged 88 01.02.2012

Wislawa Szymborska, the 1996 Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, has lost her battle with lung cancer. Szymborska died in her sleep at her home in Krakow.