Society and Sports

Media with a future – a future with media

Interview with Michael Geffken (56), freelance journalist and also in charge of the international Youth Media Workshop conducted in Potsdam as part of the Sanssouci Colloquium M100. The workshop was held from 1–4 September 2006. 32 young journalists between the ages of 18 and 25 from Switzerland, Sweden, Poland, Hungary and Germany took part. 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...

From Togo to Germany NUL and almost to the World Cup

Northern Germany doesn't hold enough challenges for this African national player. He's trying to advance his career with the help of friends who are «like family.» more...

Korean heads nursing service at Stuttgart hospital

Elisabeth Suh came to Germany to work in 1971. Today she heads the nursing service at a Stuttgart hospital. more...

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German discipline meets French savoire-vivre - on the radio

Four newcomers from Muenster have launched a German-French radio programme. It's a tiny rarity in citizens' band radio. more...

The students of Viadrina university find comfort in Slubice

Morning mass is not popular with the students at the Europa University of Viadrina. This is something that student-pastor Andrzej Maciejewski had to learn and so now he invites them to attend evening mass in Slubice. more...

Dutch religious refugees found a home in Friedrichstadt

Remonstrants fled 17th century Holland after their religious beliefs conflicted with the Calvinists. Their only surviving community outside Holland is in Germany. more...

One man's mission to create better German-Polish understanding

Reinhard Caspari has worked hard to boost understanding between Germany and Poland. In Goettingen’s twinned city of Torun in Poland, he is his city’s most famous son. more...

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Painting in English - apprentices shuttle between Dortmund and Poole

Young trainees from Dortmund have been learning English painting techniques and painters in Dorset now spray walls in the German way. more...

«In love with Germany» - students from Utah come to Kiel for the summer

For the past 40 years students from the University of Utah have been coming to Kiel for the summer to study literature, linguistics and geography. more...

Trainees in Dortmund help in the construction of a biomass plant in Ghana

Jamal Zagaoui and Toni Jacob, trainees from Dortmund, have been building a bio-gas plant in Ghana - it's a unique project, according to the RAG training body. more...

Brazilian minister has swapped flocks with a German colleague

A Brazilian pastor and his German colleague have been looking after each other's congregations for six years now. Both regard the experience as enriching. more...

Bremen instead of the Bosporus - Turkish pensioners staying in Germany

«What would I do in Turkey without a house or money,» Seher Tustas asks. She wants to live out her remaining days in Germany. And she has found the perfect place to do it. more...

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German artist designs «most beautiful homeless shelter in the world»

Artist Miriam Kilali has transformed a grim shelter into a home full of atmosphere and colour. more...

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The trend comes from Germany - but other countries also like organic food

Organic products are not just for eco-freaks nowadays. Supermarkets have discovered the trend too. Germany is a world leader in the organic food movement. more...

Twinned towns transcend

The towns of Rottweil, Germany, and Brugg, Switzerland, have been officially twinned since 1913. It is the oldest partnership between a German and foreign town. more...

Germany helps Ivory Coast grow eco-friendly cocoa

Cocoa is the Ivory Coast's chief export. Despite recent turmoil, German development workers are promoting a planting method that preserves the country's rainforest. more...

Dutch Tradition: Architect Koolhaas is a «stroke of luck for Berlin»

The Netherlands Embassy in Berlin designed by Rem Koolhaas is one of the most spectacular new buildings in the German capital. more...

Japan's only genuine German brewery is a truly Bavarian affair

The flag of Germany's southernmost state Bavaria flutters high on the slopes of Mount Fuji, the site of the only original German brewery in Japan. more...

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