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March 13, 2010
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Born When the Wall Came Down

Every country has generations that influence the social and political trajectory more than others. In Germany the post-war generation stands for the reconstruction of a war-torn country and the ensuing West German...

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A State becomes history

On October 7, 1949, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded. The communist state existed for four decades with the German-German border forming the hottest frontline of the Cold War. The GDR...

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Wall for Sale: In Search of Original Pieces of the Berlin Wall

Young Germany interviews Art Harman from Virginia, one of the few remaining sellers of authentic pieces of the Berlin Wall

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After the Fall: YG interviews director of Berlin Wall film

YG gets the inside scoop on the After the Fall documentary from co-director Eric Black

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Freedom Without Walls

For citizens of Germany, there are few events in modern history as significant as the fall of the Berlin Wall. On November 9, 1989, the physical symbol of the political and emotional divisions of Germany was removed almost overnight. Twenty years on, this historical milestone is still very much present in the minds of countless Germans, many o

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German research team deploys to Chile's quake region

With a magnitude of 9.5, the Chilean earthquake that struck on February 27 was the strongest earthquake ever measured since that in Valdivia in 1960, just south of the starting point of the currently affected region. Scientists from the German Research Centre for Geosciences...


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Top Tourism Fair in Berlin

The International Tourism Exchange (ITB) is fully booked with more exhibitors than ever before and opens on Wednesday (10 March) at the Berlin Exhibition Grounds. The record number of 11,127 exhibitors from 187 countries will be presenting their offers from the travel sector up...


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Goethe-Institut Chicago announces poetry competition

Spring –a time for sun, flowers and poetry? The Goethe-Institut Chicago believes so, and has announced a poetry competition open to all students of German in the US.


Hungarian author to receive literary prize

Second-time Adelbert-von-Chamisso Literary Prize winner Terezia Mora will be taking home 15,000 Euros this March for her literary achievement and work as translator and mediator between the Hungarian and German cultures.

 

 








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