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 […]
German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal would have been 166. years old today. He was born May 23rd 1848 in Anklam, Pomerania Province, German kingdom of Prussia. With his fundamental research on birds and airfoils, he […]
The legendary Udo Jürgens won the classic European Songcontest in 1966 and ever since then, no winner for Austria, until: CONCHITA WURST in 2014.
NEW YORK, NY – April 24, 2014 – Kino Lorber is proud to announce the acquisition of all North American rights to Johannes Holzhausen’s THE GREAT MUSEUM (Das große Museum), a critically acclaimed, observational documentary […]
German subsidiaries in the U.S. continue to drive revenue as the annual Top 50 Ranking of German Firms conducted by the German American Chambers of Commerce indicates. Overall, the sales performance increased to over $364 […]
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