"Made in Germany" - Features on Economy

High-class articles about Germany as a business location in the year of the football World Cup: Portraits and Interviews with key figures in German economy, reportages about Germany's most innovative products, and reports on the biggest exports.

Facts and Figures

Games Convention in Leipzig is Europe's biggest amusement arcade

«Come play» is the motto: Thanks to a novel concept the Games Convention has become Europe's largest computer games exhibition and a meeting place for manufacturers and players. more...

Hosting the world: Klaus Schwab is the man behind the World Economic Forum

In January he will once again summon the rich and powerful to Davos to discuss the global situation. Klaus Schwab's task is to try and find a balance between the powers in this world. more...

Potsdam, media city – the (short) history of M100

Once a year, M100 attracts one hundred top media managers and opinion leaders from all over Europe to Potsdam. Their common aim is to foster increased mutual awareness and understanding of all European states for one another’s public affairs and interests. more...

It’s all in the family: The Pavel brothers’ ideas

When journalists get together, there are always plenty of questions, the latest news to tell, and sometimes some surprising things to hear. This is how it was at the media party, to which the business location initiative, “Germany – Land of Ideas” and the Aachen-Laurensberger Reitverein (ALRV) invited media representatives during the FEI-World Equestrian Games 2006, in Aachen. more...

What is . . . reining?

Reining was the latest discipline at the World Equestrian Games in Aachen. It was first included in the competition programme in Spain in 2002. Reining is literally a type of dressage in the western riding style with the horse running at full gallop. more...

Great things always begin with a good idea

A brief survey of the history of the World Equestrian Games, which since the 1980s have quickly achieved widespread popularity. more...

Riding in Germany – facts and figures

Germany is a nation of equestrian sports. More than 1.2 million riders, vaulters and active drivers are organised within various associations in Germany. The German Riding Association (Fédération Equestre Nationale, FN) functions as the umbrella organisation, and is the world’s biggest equestrian sports association, with 750,000 members in Germany. more...

Riding in style – Fashion show in Warendorf

With 40,000 inhabitants, Warendorf is actually a quiet little rural town in Westphalia and the home of German riding. The federal and state centres for riding and modern pentathlon, the Deutsche Reiterliche Vereinigung (FN – National Federation of Equestrian Sports) and the German Olympic Committee for Riding (DOKR) are all based here. Normally down-to-earth and rustic, Warendorf was temporarily converted to a catwalk for riders and horses. more...

Germany as a business location

Germany’s revived economy and its politics of reform got highest reweards from the very top. In its survey entitled ‘Doing Business in 2006’, the World Bank confirmed Germany as one of the world’s best reformers. more...

The Place Of Worship – Cologne Cathedral

Cologne Cathedral is constructed on a terraced hill near the banks of the Rhine, which can look back on a long history rich in mythology. Excavations have revealed remains of a Roman pagan temple, but also traces of an early Christian church structure, which was probably extended in the 6th Century and replaced with the “Old Cathedral” in the 9th Century under Archbishop Hildebold. more...

The People`s Festival - Oktoberfest

Known by the locals as the “Wiesn”, Munich’s Oktoberfest is reputably the world’s biggest public festival. Each year some six million visitors converge on the Theresienwiese in the west of Munich to do just one thing, and one thing alone: drink and be merry! more...

The Palace – Neuschwanstein

The king and his castle: Seldom is a person’s myth so bound up with one place as it is in the case of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Schloss Neuschwanstein near Füssen in the Allgäu region. Not only is the architecture of the world-famous fairytale castle, with its playful, pointed towers, battlements and gables, an exemplary reflection of the romantic Historicism and Eclecticism of the 19th Century, but it also reflects in many ways the world of German mythology, in which Ludwig II would often take refuge in his dreams and longings. more...

The Orchestra – Berlin Philarmonic

It is the virtuosic brilliance of each individual musician and the quite unmistakable sound – from majestic depths of the double basses, the rich sonorous homogeneity of the strings to the complex resonances of the brass section – which have conferred upon the Berlin Philharmonic its legendary status. For over 120 years, the orchestra’s uniquely distinctive timbre has enraptured audiences throughout the world. more...

The Opera House – Semper Opera

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The Opera Festival - Bayreuth

“The next revolution must necessarily bring an end to the whole theatre business. They must and will all collapse – it is inexorable.” The desire to destroy a deeply ossified cultural industry resonates from this short extract of a letter by Wagner to his friends and should be seen against the backdrop of the 1849 May Uprising in Dresden. more...

The Open-Mindedness – Wanderlust

“Why seek so far afield when the good is right in front of you?“ Regularly setting new records for travelling the world, Germans no longer appear to be heeding this advice from Goethe. To quench their wanderlust, they spend around 60 billion euros each year – plus, the great poet himself was anything but a couch potato, whereas another intellectual giant of the age, Immanuel Kant, famously never left his hometown of Königsberg despite championing the concept of the world citizen. more...

The Old Town – Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber

That the Bavarians customarily drink from huge tankards is well known, as is the fact that there are men who can empty these tankards in one fell draught. However, to accomplish this feat with a 3-litre goblet of wine may seem rather unusual, and to save a town and the lives of all its inhabitants from death and destruction in the process, simply beyond belief. Yet if we lend credence to the legend then this is exactly what transpired in October 1631 in the town of “Rothenburg ob der Tauber”, at the height of the Thirty Years’ War. more...

Next To Godliness - Cleanliness

When the world-class Brazilian striker Giovane Elber joined VFB Stuttgart in 1994 he soon became the star of the team and a favourite among supporters. The elegant technician was enthusiastically received by the usually reserved southern German soccer fans. When asked in an interview if he found any aspects of his new life in Swabia rather strange, the goalscorer shot back immediately: the “Kehrwoche!” more...

The News Broadcast - Tagesschau

At 8 o’clock in the evening on Boxing Day in 1952, a new chapter in German TV history was written. With the launch of the “Tagesschau”, two years after the founding of the “Working Group of the Public Broadcasting Institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany” (ARD), the first and, to date, the most successful German TV news magazine went on air. more...