Joseph Pilates’ Enduing System of Fitness for Life By Jenny Peters It began with weakness. When Joseph Pilates was born in 1883 in Mönchen-Gladbach, Germany, he was not a strong child. Suffering with asthma […]
By Jenny Peters Germans have always led the world in the universal quest for wellness and fitness, ever since the first Neanderthal man eased into one of the countless hot mineral springs that […]
By Björn Akstinat Yiddish is alive! Berlin’s Komischen Oper is currently preparing a Yiddish-language operetta, and actors from New York’s Folksbiene/Volksbühne will celebrate the 100th anniversary of their Yiddish theater this year. A young Canadian […]
Germans make up the United States’ biggest ethnic group: around 50 million people indicated German ancestry in the country’s last census – 6 million more than in the last study. The increase has not resulted, […]
Many famous people of German descent live in the U.S.A. But Konstantin Guericke, one of the top figures in America’s Internet industry, is still relatively unknown. He is one of the main founders of the […]
Hamburg / Los Angeles, March 22, 2015 – The General Assembly of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) has voted in favor of Hamburg as the official German nominee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic […]
By Elyse Glickman For the Jewish traveler, modern Switzerland holds many wonderful surprises, especially when it comes to its Jewish community and culture. One of the most surprising and emotionally powerful is that back on […]
German-Americans The silent minority America’s largest ethnic group has assimilated so well that people barely notice it Feb 7th 2015 | Kohler, Wisconsin ON A snow-covered bluff overlooking the Sheboygan river stands the Waelderhaus, a faithful […]
The West-German Embassy in Prague finds itself the center of the world’s political stage. For weeks refugees from East-Germany have streamed onto the premises of the Palais Lobkowitz and its surrounding streets. Within days the […]
Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no […]
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