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Austrias Future around 1970
How futurists, the prophets of our day and age saw the future around 1970 featuring the hilarious Austrian legend Helmut Qualtinger improving his way through various Austrian and also a German specimen…
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Mozart’s Zauberflöte – 1791
TODAY IN HISTORY: On September 30th, 1791, Mozarts Zauberflöte was premiered in Vienna at the suburban Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden. Mozart conducted the orchestra, Schikaneder himself played Papageno, while the role of the Queen of […]
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Clara Schumann Google Doodle
Clara Schumann was a German musician and composer and one of the most distinguished pianists of her time. Today’s Google Doodle commemorating what would have her 193rd birthday. The German composer and classical musician died […]
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Bravo’s teen sex advisor Dr. Sommer is dead
Generations of German-speaking teenagers got their first sex and love advice from Dr. Sommer (Martin Goldstein). The director of a youth centre in Düsseldorf hat a no-nonsense approach to sex. In 1969, when sex was […]
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German Students in Need of Host Families
Dear German World Reader, Make a German exchange student’s dream come true today by welcoming him or her into your home! As of today, we still have 30 wonderful German students waiting for a family. […]
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Change of Guards in Los Angeles
At the Goethe-Institut, Annette Rupp was succeeded in March by Mr. Fareed Majari as new director at the Goethe-Institut L.A. Then in May the program department also experienced a change in personnel. Margit Kleinman, who […]
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Loren L. Zachary Society Celebrated its 40th Anniversary with Many New Talents
For 40 years the Loren L. Zachary National Vocal Competition has proved to be the starting point for some of the most successful opera singers of our time. Founded in 1973 by the late Viennese-born […]
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Remembering Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Every Word Means a Universe On May 18, just ten days shy of his 87th birthday, the world-renowned baritone died at his home in Bavaria. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who recorded over 400 albums, and whose repertoire […]
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Remembering Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Every Word Means a Universe On May 18, just ten days shy of his 87th birthday, the world-renowned baritone died at his home in Bavaria. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who recorded over 400 albums, and whose repertoire […]
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Diane Kruger Earns Much Praise for “Farewell, My Queen”
“Diane Kruger takes role fit for queen,” writes Roger Moore of McClatchy News Service about Kruger’s latest role as Marie Antoinette in Benoît Jacquot’s masterfully shot movie “Farewell, My Queen.” German-born actress who resides in […]