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A. J. Goldmann

Berlin, Munich, New York
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Film, Music, Opera, Art & Theater Critic + European Cultural Correspondent @nytimes, @wsj, @ft, @jdforward, @vanmusicmag Ajgoldmann.substack.com

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A. J. Goldmann’s Biography

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Born and raised in New York, I have made Europe my home for the past decade.

Since 2007, I have applied my broad knowledge of art, film, music and history to major cultural events and developments, providing a mix of news, criticism and commentary intended to shine a light on the role of culture and the arts in contemporary European society.

I have reported on many of Europe’s essential cultural institutions and festivals, from the passion play at Oberammergau to the new Jewish Museum in Warsa…

A. J. Goldmann’s Journalist Portfolio

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Painting Wagner: Celebrated Artists' New Work for the Opera Stage

Painting Wagner: Celebrated Artists' New Work for the Opera Stage

MUNICH - From Pablo Picasso to David Hockney and from Jean Cocteau to Marc Chagall, celebrated painters and v…

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In Conservative Munich, a Theater Turns Radical and Defends Refugees

In Conservative Munich, a Theater Turns Radical and Defends Refugees

MUNICH - In the summer of 2015, the world watched in astonishment as Germans cheered crowds of refugees strea…

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Lyric Chameleon

Lyric Chameleon

Cover story of the July 2018 issue about the German soprano Anja Harteros.

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Philosophical Intonations, From Two Sides

Philosophical Intonations, From Two Sides

A critic's notebook about two new operas in Germany about German-Jewish intellectuals persecuted by the Third…

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How Otto Wagner Made Vienna Modern

How Otto Wagner Made Vienna Modern

One hundred years ago, as World War I drew to a close and the Austro-Hungarian Empire breathed its last, Vien…

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Louvre Abu Dhabi Melds East and West

Louvre Abu Dhabi Melds East and West

'See humanity in a new light," runs the slogan of Louvre Abu Dhabi, which opened to the public on Saturday, a…

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Articles

New to The New Criterion ?

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By A. J. Goldmann, Robert Erickson, Hadley Arkes
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Brenton Ryan as Loge & Leigh Melrose as Alberich in Das Rheingold, at the Salzburg Easter Festival. Photo: Frol Podlesnyi. World-building gone wrong Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The opening of Terrence Malick’s The New World (2005) contains one of the most effective uses of music by Richard Wagner in film. A low, sonorous note seems to rise from the depth of the ocean.
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Better late than never

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It was a cold January morning in 1895 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus stood in the cobbled courtyard of the École militaire. Flanked by soldiers, he was stripped of his rank, with his epaulets torn from his uniform and his sword broken in two in a ceremonial act of degradation. A jeering crowd spat invectives—“Judas!” “Death to the Jews!”—as France’s only Jewish officer on the general staff was paraded before them.
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A. J. Goldmann | The New Criterion

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What was your first job as a journalist?

An editorial internship with the Forward (www.forward.com) in summer 2002., assisting arts and culture editor Daniel Asa Rose.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Absolutely!

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

A pen and pad

Awards

Sam Rockower Award

2011 - New Reporting

Second place award for “At the Death Camps, Muslim Leaders Grapple With Jews’ Pain,” which appeared in "The Forward" (August 11, 2011) Jury statement: "An excellent article about what happens when people are given a personal, up-close look at the Holocaust." https://forward.com/news/130013/at-the-death-camps-muslim-leaders-grapple-with-jew/

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