25 years ago, in the night of September 10th to September 11th 1989, the Hungarian government briefly opens the border to Austria for East German citizens. Hungary allows about 7000 refuges from communist east Germany […]
Dominik Graf’s feature film BELOVED SISTERS will represent Germany as the official submission for the 87th Academy Awards® for Best Foreign Language Film. This was decided by an independent jury in Munich, which was appointed […]
Volkswagen of America, Inc. announced on August 14, 2014, further plans in its holistic approach to e-mobility at the Management Briefing Seminar, hosted by the Center for Automotive Research. Starting with the launch of the […]
Mystery solved? A pair of artists in Berlin said they were the ones who pulled off the stunt of the summer, hoisting two big all-white flags atop the Brooklyn Bridge last month, swapping them for […]
Days after the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, Serbia, on June 28, 1914. On July 28, 2014, […]
An experience cave researcher and his team of two had gone into the Riesending cave system in the Alps to do measurements. He was hit in the head and spent two weeks underground until the […]
For the second year in a row, Germany has been ranked the number one most favorably viewed country by the BBC World Service Poll. The survey, which is conducted by GlobeScan and the Program on […]
The German-American Steuben Parade Committee of NY is proud to announce that Emmy Award-winning NY journalist John W. Muller has been named Grand Marshal of the 57th annual German-American Steuben Parade! John Muller was born […]
Actor and humanitarian Karlheinz Böhm died aged 86 near Salzburg. He was born March 16th 1928 in Darmstadt, Germany. His father was the world-famous conductor Karl Böhm. Shooting to stardom as the male lead to […]
Germany has officially overtaken the UK and Canada to become the number two destination for permanent immigration, second only to the US. A new OECD report shows that the number of persons permanently immigrating to […]
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