Former German Federal President Roman Herzog has died. The seventh German President passed at the age of 82 on January 10. Herzog held that highest German office in state from 1994 to 1999, and the […]
Germany has ranked second in the 2016 Nation Brands Index – a study that examines the image of 50 countries around the world. This is the second time Germany has taken second place as the […]
Handicapping Hollywood’s Award Season By Jenny Peters It’s that time of year in Hollywood, when everyone dusts off their tuxedoes, pulls the family jewels out of the vault (to pair with spectacular ball gowns, of […]
Nine features will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 89th Academy Awards®. Eighty-five films had originally been considered in the category. The films, listed in alphabetical […]
In a clash of cultures Red Bull Flying Bach turns the international classical music world upside down. World champion German b-boy crew Flying Steps visualises and revives Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier in a […]
In this new selection and translation, Peter Wortsman mines Franz Kafka’s entire opus of short prose – including works published in the author’s brief lifetime, stories published posthumously, journals, and letters – for narratives that […]
Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke to the press on Tuesday, December 20, about the attack on Breitscheidplatz: “This is a very difficult day. I, like millions of people in Germany, am horrified, shocked, and deeply saddened […]
A few years ago he wanted to be chancellor and lost to Angela Merkel. Now Germany’s major parties agree: Frank-Walter Steinmeier should be the next federal president of Germany. He has been an important player […]
Read What Germany is Reading: “Tschick” By Julia Kupper Hyped as one of the best German books in the last ten years, Wolfgang Herrndorf’s “Tschick (Why We Took the Car)” is a young-adult novel about […]
Critics describe Gernot Wolfgang as a “master composer with important things to communicate to his listeners” (David DeBoor Canfield/Fanfare) and a composer with a “winning sonic arsenal” (Donald Rosenberg/Gramophone), while jazz legend Dave Brubeck characterized […]
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