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German Oscar Entry

October 5, 2010 GW Administrator 0

83rd Academy Awards®  – Official German Entry for the Best Foreign Language Film When We Leave (Die Fremde) A film by FEO ALADAG with SIBEL KEKILLI (star of HEAD-ON) TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2010: BEST FILM, World Narrative […]

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Germany Reunited

October 3, 2010 GW Administrator 0

The German lower house of parliament Bundestag is illuminated during celebrations marking the country’s 20th anniversary of reunification in Berlin October 3, 2010. After four decades of division into Soviet-controlled communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) […]

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Tony Curtis is dead

September 30, 2010 GW Administrator 0

Tony Curtis was born June 3rd 1925 in New York City as Bernard Schwartz to German speaking immigrants from the little Hungarian town Mátészalka He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1958 for “The […]

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M.I. Hummel supports breast cancer

September 28, 2010 GW Administrator 0

he M.I. Hummel Company, known for its most beloved collectibles, has been involved with the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.® (NBCF) for over 5 years through the popular Hope figurine series. A portion of the […]

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Subscription Special

September 27, 2010 GW Administrator 0

We currently offer a special education subscription for only $ 4.95 a year (instead of $19.95) to teachers, students, and for participants of the initiative “Stand Up for Learning German.” That’s correct; 4 issues sent […]

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German author Cornelia Funke

September 19, 2010 GW Administrator 0

Cornelia Funke, born in West Germany, moved to the US in 2005 and still writes in German. The successful author of the “Inkworld” trilogy returns with a new book and a new creative partner. Read […]

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Electronic Smog Protection

September 13, 2010 GW Administrator 2

In a time where the advantages of being connected and communicating everywhere and all the time have the downside of electric smog, a German invention seems to provide the solution. Intense headaches, allergies and other […]

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Pac Man Swiss Style

September 9, 2010 GW Administrator 1

It took more than four hours and 111 people to record this special game. The human PAC-MAN Stop Motion Performance was played by real human-beings sitting in a cinema in Baden, Switzerland. It was the […]