Since its inception in 1998, the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art has become one of the art world’s premier cultural events. It brings together some of the most influential artists, thinkers, and personalities and presents a […]
May 20, 2016 Every year in May, the Berlin Theater Festival brings together theatre-makers, journalists and international guests. DW spoke to a juror about the selection of plays, and new approaches to staging and production. DW: […]
May 5, 2016 German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi decried on Thursday the “unjustified” proposal from Vienna to erect a fence at Austria’s alpine border with Italy to stem the flow […]
The German Bundestag collaborates with the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin to run its International Parliamentary Scholarships (IPS) program. This gives well qualified young people with a strong interest in politics […]
March 1, 2016 After an interview of just a few minutes, two Pakistani refugees beamed as they may have finally found the key to integrating in their host country Germany – a job. “If all […]
Hundreds of movie lovers emerged bleary-eyed but enthusiastic Thursday after the longest competition contender in the 66-year history of the Berlin film festival, shown in an eight-and-a-half hour marathon screening with just one break. Click […]
A highlight on Berlin’s classical music calendar, the Staatsoper Festival Days will again be presented at the Schiller Theater and the Philharmonie concert hall. Every year, highly acclaimed artists present two musical theatre productions and three concerts […]
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 […]
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 […]
As the first city in the world Berlin got its own domain name. .berlin will be available additionally to the traditional .com or .de for “Deutschland”. Berlin’s mayor, Klaus Wowereit, said at a launch event […]
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