Five things to know about Germany’s government crisis
November 13, 2024 BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced he will ask for a vote of confidence in December, setting the path for an early election in…
The riddles of Heinrich Hermann Mebes
Five notebooks delicately bound, filled with drawings, words, allegories emblems, precise yet disordered
Subtitle -A German-speaking outpost in the American Midwest
German used to be one of the most widely-spoken languages in the United States. A survey in 1900 listed 613 US-based German-language newspapers. Today, only a handful survive, and German…
NEVER TOO SMALL: Self-Taught Interior Decorator’s Cozy Rental Apartment, Berlin 50sqm/528sqft
In Schöneberg, Berlin, interior decorator Kateryna has transformed a cosy 1912 apartment into an intensely personalised space without making any major structural changes. Creating separate living, dining and sleeping spaces…
Transgender Experiences in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Before 1933, Germany was a center of LGBT+ community and culture, with several renowned organizations serving and supporting trans and gender non-conforming people. Hitler’s Nazi government, however, brutally targeted the…
Builder causes £425,000 in damage to new flats ‘after not being paid’
The destruction caused half a million euros (£425k) worth of damage. A building contractor tore down the balconies of a new apartment block ‘out of frustration’ after he allegedly did…
German law student tried woodworking, became master designer
In the tiny Bavarian town of Aschau im Chiemgau, Nils Holger Moormann and his 35 employees create modern furniture in a converted stable under the shadow of a 12th century…
Is there an art to dubbing movies and TV? Yes, and Germans have mastered it.
It turns out that there are plenty of reasons why dubbing became a thing in Germany while other European countries took the subtitling route. Inevitably perhaps, the story includes Nazis, Communists and…