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VW strengthens research links with Qatar
Europe's biggest carmaker Volkswagen AG announced Monday plans aimed strengthening its cooperation with Qatar in the...
Afghanistan: German diplomat new deputy head of UN mission
Martin Kobler is to be new deputy head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). The German...
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United in disagreement: The peace process is dead
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Government and economists defend Germany's roaring export machine
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E-learning's potential is hampered by misuse, critics say
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One School, Two Qualification Options
The German International School in Cape Town (DSK) is one of four German overseas schools in South Africa. Around 730...
Goethe-Institut News
Detective Work Instead of Homework: TV Thrillers for Children
IFLA: The International Federation of Libraries
Digital Copy Protection as Economic Handicap – An interview with Julius...
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Electricity prices to rise for every fifth household
Deutsche's Ackermann pockets EUR 10 mln for 2009
Dutch populist Wilders 'unwelcome' in Eifel town
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New website for international students
A new site has been launched by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). www.study-in.de is intended to help guide...
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German Information Centre New Delhi
News, information and updates on Germany and its role and relations with South Asia, covering...
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German Information Centre Pretoria
The German Information Centre Pretoria aims to be the first contact point for up-to-date...
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German Information Center USA
The German Information Center USA (GIC) makes it easy for you to find information about...
Change through Culture
For the first time, a whole region, namely the Ruhr District, is the European Cultural Capital. 53 municipalities will present 300 projects and 2,500 events over the course of a whole year. Fritz Pleitgen, head of Ruhr.2010,...
Berlinale Celebrates with 400 Films
“The birthday cake of nearly 400 films has been baked,” announces festival director Dieter Kosslick. The 60th Berlin International Film Festival begins on 11 February. The flurry of flashbulbs, the red carpet, the film stars: the...
Prussia’s Most Beautiful Jewel
Five museums, 6000 years of cultural history: the Museum Island is not just part of the world cultural heritage, it is an aesthetic force – the vision of a Prussian cultural revolution. And to implement it, Berlin will be...
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
British architect David Chipperfield was commissioned by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in 1998 to draw up a master plan for the redesigning and renovation of Berlin’s Museum Island
Neues Museum Berlin
This museum is like a great architectural novel, a building in which everything has meaning. A building dedicated to the wonders of culture that itself bears the wounds of history. With the reopening of the Neues Museum, all five...
"Neues Museum" in Berlin Reopens
The “Neues Museum” (New Museum) on Berlin’s Museum Island opened its doors again on 17 October 2009. This major work of 19th century art, museum and engineering history was designed by Friedrich August Stüler. Badly damaged...
Prussia’s Cosmos of Culture
SPK – three letters stand for one of the world’s greatest treasure troves, a lively research institution and Germany’s undeclared national heritage foundation
Herta Müller
The 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature goes to a woman who writes in a severely beautiful German about the abysmal depths of dictatorship and state terror
Literature Nobel Prize Goes to Germany
Surprise from Stockholm: although she was considered an outside contender, German author Herta Müller receives the Nobel Prize in Literature
The Sound of the South Pole
Karlsruhe-based sound-artist Frank Halbig has set scientific data from the South Pole to music for an unusual project called “Antarktika”.
Kitchen, Café, Art Spaces
Curators and artists from Germany are shaping the images of the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 under the motto “Making Worlds”: Many of them come from Frankfurt and Berlin. British artist Liam Gillick has transformed the German...
German Moments
How do photographers from 20 countries see Germany 20 years after the fall of the Wall? Throughout 2009, the photographs entered in an international competition organized by the German National Tourist Board (DZT) can be seen...
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
The International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen is considered one of the highlights in the calendar of more than 100 German film festivals. The world’s oldest festival for short films will be held for the 55th time between 30...
Literature on a Turning Point in History
What does the fall of the Wall mean for German literature? How much material is inherent in unification? Enough for the “great novel of the transition era”? Things are a lot clearer twenty years after 9 November 1989
Nefertiti’s New Home
For almost 60 years it was a huge ruin, having been badly damaged in the Second World War. Now the New Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island radiates its old splendour once again. After almost ten years of planning and restoration...
Ambassador of German Film
Keen commitment to German film: Goethe Institutes around the world compile a panorama from 900 current and classic German films
“The Magic of Cinema Is Boundless”
Dieter Kosslick has been directing the Berlinale, Germany’s biggest film festival, since 2001. In an interview he talks about the art of selecting films and the significance of stars on the red carpet
Master of the Quiet Moments
Germany’s most successful female director makes films outside the mainstream: Caroline Link tackles difficult stories and enthralls audiences of millions
Bring on the Bears
The competition for the Golden Bear is always unleashed in February: that’s when the Berlinale rolls out the red carpet for glamour and talent, the art of film and the film market
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