Maria von Trapp, daughter of Austrian Baron Georg von Trapp has died at age 99 in Stowe, Vermont. She was the last surviving member and second-eldest daughter of the musical family whose escape from Nazi-occupied […]
Detroit / Wolfsburg – “The Volkswagen Group is staying on course with qualitative growth.” This was reaffirmed on Sunday in Detroit on the eve of the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) by the CEO […]
Foreign Overnights Top 70 Million in 2013 New York, February 18, 2014 – Staying the course charted in the previous three years, Destination Germany increased foreign overnight numbers in 2013, this time breaking the 70 […]
US Secretary of State John Kerry is currently in Germany for a security conference in Munich and will hold talks with Ukraine’s opposition, the leaders of an anti-government uprising against President Viktor Yanukovich. He will […]
Today’s German Google Doodle honors 19th century German writer and composer Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. Born Anna Elisabeth Franziska Adolphine Wilhelmine Louise Maria, Freiin von Droste zu Hülshoff on January 10 or 12 1797 – May […]
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 442nd birthday of the German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler. Johannes Kepler was born on 27 December 1571 in the free imperial city Weil der Stadt near Stuttgart. e became […]
The Christmas carol Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht, “Silent Night” was composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. It was declared an […]
German actor Daniel Brühl earned a Golden Globe Nomination for his spot on performance of race car driver, entrepreneur, airline owner, the “Austrian Richard Branson” Niki Lauda in Ron Howard’s film Rush.
“If you can’t sell your film to Germany, don’t bother making it.” That was the blunt, perhaps surprising message from Millennium Films President (and ex-Miramax and Warner Independent exec)Mark Gill at a conference Monday (Nov. […]
As reported by Deutsche Welle, for decades, the community of five allied states – the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom – has shared intelligence and at the same time pledged […]
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