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Elizabeth Grenier

Elizabeth Grenier

Deutsche Welle

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Disney's 'Snow White' opens after racist and sexist fury

Disney's 'Snow White' opens after racist and sexist fury

The new live-action version of Disney's 1937 musical fantasy sparked a storm of racist comments during its production. Debates on the film's handling...

19.03.2025 10

Deutsche Welle

Elizabeth Grenier

'All We Imagine as Light': Indian women at the crossroads

As the award-winning film is released internationally, DW spoke to director Payal Kapadia about the social issues she addresses in her poetic work.

20.12.2024 9

Deutsche Welle

Elizabeth Grenier

German island to end ritual of spanking women with cow horn

North Sea island of Borkum has said it will stop its Klaasohm festival tradition where young men hit women on the buttocks with a cow horn.

03.12.2024 10

Deutsche Welle

Elizabeth Grenier

Borkum's Klaasohm fest to end 'ritual' of spanking women

The North Sea island of Borkum is reacting to a recent report looking into how a 200-year-old tradition has enabled young men to hit women on the...

02.12.2024 3

Deutsche Welle

Elizabeth Grenier

75 years of Frankfurt Book Fair: World stage for protests

The Cold War, neo-Nazis, as well as Iran's fatwa on Salman Rushdie all had an impact on the Frankfurt Book Fair, which turns 75 this year.

16.10.2024 2

Deutsche Welle

Elizabeth Grenier

When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic

An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is...

12.09.2024 10

Deutsche Welle

Elizabeth Grenier

AI meets colonialism: Germany develops new research tool

Germany's Federal Archives own an important collection of documents from the colonial era. To untrained eyes, they are undecipherable. Now AI can...

12.08.2024 3

Deutsche Welle

Elizabeth Grenier