Carson Kievman: Composer and Friend
By Carl Kruse Tomorrow — December 27— would have been Carson Kievman’s birthday, and it feels like the right moment to talk about him the way he preferred to be remembered: not as a footnote in a program book, but as a living current of energy—wry, stubbornly idealistic, and always building the next thing. Carson … [Read more…]
Again, Winter Solstice
by Alexandra Indra Kruse for this Carl Kruse BlogThe winter solstice is the year’s most dramatic plot twist: the day the sun seems to lose its nerve, hanging low and stingy with light—and then, almost imperceptibly at first, begins its comeback. Long before anyone had weather apps or electric streetlights, this was big news. It … [Read more…]
Invite from Princeton Alumni: A Conversation With Author Sash Bischoff
Hello All, The Princeton Alumni Association of Germany warmly invites readers of the Carl Kruse Blog to a live conversation with Sash Bischoff, author of the acclaimed novel Sweet Fury, on December 9 at 17:30 Berlin time. About the BookLila Crayne is America’s sweetheart—radiant, beloved, and preparing to star in a feminist adaptation of Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night. As … [Read more…]
Berlin Art Exhibit: Bad/Good Jews
by Carl Kruse Friend of the Carl Kruse blog, artist Yury Kharchenko invites us to the opening of the exhibit “Bad/Good Jews,” to take place November 13 at 7pm at Bunker West, Hohenzollerndamm 120, 14199 Berlin. The exhibit runs through November 27, 2025. The exhibition “Bad / Good Jews” brings together five outstanding Jewish artists: … [Read more…]
Harvard Club Invite: Dinner With Author Jamaica Kincaid in Berlin
Hello Friends! The Harvard Club of Berlin invites readers of the Carl Kruse Blog to an evening discussion with renown author Jamaica Kincaid on November 5 at 6:30pm at Restaurant Luther & Wegner, Charlottenstr. 56 10117 Berlin. The invite is below. Cheers! Carl Kruse P.S. Stammtisch, Tuesday, Nov 4 at Fredericks in Potsdammer Platz. Dear members and … [Read more…]
Knut Hamsun
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Black wood, all black, so black it’s blue, like a raven or a crow in winter sun. Up, up, past the steep gables, up to the dragonhead, sharp and dark and up she points, up through the snow, the tempest, the long, long blackness, then the long, … [Read more…]
Changeling: How European Folklore Explained Autism
by Asia Leonardi for this Carl Kruse Blog «Don’t call us gnomes. We don’t want to be called that anymore. Once it was the perfect wordto designate a wide variety of creatures, but today it has too many meanings […] If you want togive me a name, I am like them, an elf. Or rather, … [Read more…]
Urban Paradise Guild
By Alexandra Indrah Kruse The Urban Paradise Guild (UPG) is a pioneering South Florida nonprofit founded in 2008, with the mission to restore native habitats in urban Miami‑Dade County and to promote sustainable, resilient living for both people and wildlife. The UPG is one of this blog’s favorite non-profit groups in Florida and we have … [Read more…]
Aphorisms on Spring
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog The cherry tree blooms in early spring. There are three on a street close to me and I noticed the buds coming out just the other day. I cannot now remember this prelude as they quickly blossomed into a rich fullness. It was a surprise but so … [Read more…]
Harvard Club of Berlin Event: Chat with Dr.Gregor Schmitz – World At A Turning Point?
by Carl Kruse The Harvard Club of Berlin invites members of the Carl Kruse Blog to the Fireside Chat – “Turning Point. In the world. In the United States? In Germany ?” with Dr. Gregor Peter Schmitz to take place on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, at 6:30 pm at the Marriott Hotel on Potsdamer Platz. … [Read more…]
Happy DNA Day 2025
A Tribute to Rosalind Franklin by Fraser Hibbitt for this Carl Kruse Blog Every year we here at the Carl Kruse Blog take time to celebrate that moment in April 25, 1953 when Watson and Crick published their findings on the structure of DNA, and of the benefits to humanity that such knowledge has wrought. … [Read more…]
Upcoming Discussion With Harvard Club of Berlin: Should Europe Have Its Own Nuclear Bomb?
by Carl Kruse The Harvard club of Berlin invites members of the Carl Kruse Blog to its upcoming “Current Affairs Dinner” to take place March 12, 2025. The topic of discussion is “Does Europe Need Its Own Nuclear Bomb?” Recent weeks have shaken Europe’s confidence in the transatlantic alliance. Longstanding assumptions about the U.S. as … [Read more…]
Moondog – Louis Thomas Hardin
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Nonprofits Blog He spied an object as he walked along alone in a field, somewhere in Missouri. Perhaps in the town of Hurley where he attended High School. At his school, he played drums as he had done for most of his life. Very early on in his … [Read more…]
Winter
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog The worst of Winter is January. There are more people running, less people drinking, and it seems desperate. A runner is hopping on the spot, waiting for the traffic light to go red; now, they are off again huffing the steam of a new year. It is … [Read more…]
Svalbard Seed Vault Revisted
by Christine Tomasa for the Carl Kruse Blog The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, often referred to as the “Doomsday Vault,” stands as a monumental safeguard for global agricultural biodiversity. Situated on the remote island of Spitsbergen in Norway, approximately 1,300 kilometers beyond the Arctic Circle, this facility serves as a repository for the world’s crop … [Read more…]
Francis Bacon at the National Gallery
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog The Francis Bacon exhibition in London’s National Gallery comes at a fine time. The world is dying all around and we are beginning to see the skeletal trees beneath the absorbingly great colours of the leaves. Existentialism has been noted for bringing the discussion of death, … [Read more…]
New SETI Search for Extraterrestrial Life
By Carl Kruse The Mountain View, California-based SETI Institute recently discussed a new research project that looked for signs of alien intelligence in galaxies beyond the Milky Way. The study involved several other academic institutions and used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope in Australia to focus on low radio frequencies, e.g., those in the … [Read more…]
An Autumn Thought
By Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog A few years ago, when I was living in a different town, I used to get coffee from a girl who hated the summer. What it was she hated about it I couldn’t quite tell, probably the intensity of it. She was shy and her sentences often … [Read more…]
Stanford Event at TU Berlin
by Carl Kruse The Germany Stanford University Alumni group invites members of the Carlkruse.org blog to their end of summer event hosted at the brewery of the Technical University (TU) Berlin. If you are not familiar with the TU, they are one of the world’s top universities for Brewmaster training. The event will feature free … [Read more…]