Joachim Schirrmacher gives his verdict and some food for thought on the last day of Berlin Fashion Week.

Since the departure of the designers Jörg Ehrlich and Otto Drögsler as well as a new management board, Renè Lezard (www.rene-lezard.de) has yet to make a proper comeback, as CEO Heinz Hackl openly...

The air is filled with dust. A group of teenage boys is kicking a ball around the uneven playing field. It’s a far cry from the silky soft green turfs in German’s professional soccer stadiums. But...

Two world records. Two Olympic gold medals. Reigning world champion over 50 and 100 metres. And so very nearly it didn't happen. Britta Steffen gave up swimming after the Olympic games in 2004. She...

When the weather starts getting cold and the nights long it's understandable to want to bundle up and stay warm inside. The Christmas season in Germany, however, is no time to stay indoors. Every...

The Christmas season is now in full swing in Germany: many houses are decorated with lights, the Christmas markets smell of mulled wine and gingerbread, cookies are being baked, and above all, the...

YG speaks to Futuresounds winners Three Fall about their music and debunks some myths about jazz

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...

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...

A growl reverberates through the concert hall. Even the back row feels the bass. The crowd in the Frankfurt Festhalle is delirious. Metallica are in town. Frontman James Hetfield grabs his microphone...

Techno music is often misjudged as the domain of drug-crazed, pill popping freaks. Confronting these stereotypes, 26-year-old techno enthusiast Matthias Hiemesch and friends in Hamburg decided to...

On Saturday evening Kamghe Gaba will collect his relay baton and take off at high speed around the Berlin Olympic stadium’s blue running track. The 25 year-old is part of Germany’s 4x400 meter relay...

With the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin underway, the inevitable debate about doping is prominent in the media. Following every exceptional performance, speculation is rife as...

Berlin is building a reputation as the place to be if you are starting out in the fashion business. Thousands of young creatives flock to the capital from around the world to found small labels here....

The first decade of the new millennium will be remembered for many things: The war in Iraq, the swine flu pandemic and the current economic crisis. Add to that list the phenomenon of reality TV which...

Over 200,000 people from all over the world are researching, working and studying in Berlin. Their creativity and curiosity make the German capital one of the most diverse research regions on the...

Everywhere you go in Berlin you get the feeling that creative people are at work. Whether you are strolling past galleries, spotting creatives on laptops in cafes, or just admiring graffiti on the...

Marvin still cannot quite believe what he has just experienced. He’s in Germany for the first time, and then this happens. “I’ve just met the Vice-President of the Bundestag,” says the 21-year-old...

If you ever need a real-life template for successful cultural integration, look no further than Tianna Dauner. Still in her twenties, she has spent significant time living in Jamaica, the United...

For students and young researchers the path from Russia to Europe runs via the University of Hohenheim. The school is the EU mentor for scholarship holders from Russian universities.

Over the past two decades, Russian-Germans have created a number of specifically Russian-language media outlets. In an effort to preserve their own culture and community in the process of...

An interview with Audrey D’souza, Regional Director of the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce in Bangalore, on India as a business location and the IT center Bangalore

The e-mails Kush Desai received from colleagues at SAP Labs India in Bangalore last October had one central message: pride. Pride that for the first time a fellow countryman, one of them, had been...

The Transportation Design Faculty at the University of Pforzheim is internationally acclaimed as a thinktank producing the car designers of the...

Virgil gave us the famous quote, “Love conquers all.” But who can believe him nowadays? Perhaps his message lives on in the scores of young couples...

When thousands of people sporting tattoos, wearing studded collars and big black boots descend on a village in northern Germany each year, the...

German films have gained a lot of press in recent years, not least through the 2007 Oscar winner The Lives of Others. Forming the foundation for the...