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Berlin Fashion Week 2010

Photo: (C) Joachim Schirrmacher

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

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Photo: (C) Joachim Schirrmacher

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...

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Day 3 - On too little sleep
Day 2 - Berlin Fashion Week
Day 1 - First impressions
On the way to the Berlin Fashion Week

Newsmakers 2009

Mesut Özil celebrates, Photo: (C) picture-alliance /DeFodi

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...

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Britta Steffen is also an ambassador for "100% erneuerbar" - a project promoting the use of renewable energy (C) 100% erneuerbar

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...

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Philipp Rösler News- maker 2009
Niiu - Newsmaker 2009
August Diehl - Newsmaker 2009

Xmas in Germany

Nürnberger Weihnachtsmarkt

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...

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Xmas stern by aboutpixel user theuni

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

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Three Fall

Three Fall at the Leverkusen Jazz Days, Photo: (C) Anja Ligaya Weiss

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

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Fall of the Berlin Wall

Jamila Al-Yousef , Photo: (C) Jamila Al-Yousef

Every country has generations that influence the social and political trajectory more than others. In Germany the post-war generation stands for the...

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Checkpoint Charlie 1961  Photo: (C) Landesarchiv Berlin

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

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Wall for Sale: In Search of Original Pieces of the Berlin Wall
After the Fall: YG interviews director of Berlin Wall film
Freedom Without Walls

Clubs and DJs in Germany

Sennheiser equipment, Photo: flickr (CC) aenimation, Francesca Guadagnini

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...

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Record decks. Photo: Flickr (CC) JP(kedakai)

Techno music is often misjudged as the domain of drug-crazed, pill popping freaks. Confronting these stereotypes, 26-year-old techno enthusiast...

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Kompakt: Top techno from Cologne
Berlin club culture according to Vice Magazine Germany
Berlin: Europe's party capital

Athletics World Championship

Kamghe Gaba at a Nike photo shooting at Frankfurt airport. Photo: picture alliance/dpa Nike/ Lutz Bongarts

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...

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Doping case. Aboutpixel.de/Copyright:Simon Ledermann

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

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Fashion in Germany

Preparing for a fashion show. Photo: YG

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...

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A shooting for Germany's Next Top Model TV show. Picture alliance/dpa

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....

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By Eve: Running a fashion label as a hobby
Birkenstock: From hippies to hipsters
Creative and Dynamic: Labels from Berlin

Berlin

Berlin by aboutpixel user MagicFotos

Over 200,000 people from all over the world are researching, working and studying in Berlin. Their creativity and curiosity make the German capital...

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Tacheles. Photo: Flickr (cc)/tochis

Everywhere you go in Berlin you get the feeling that creative people are at work. Whether you are strolling past galleries, spotting creatives on...

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Berlin: An engine for creativity
Berlin: A stroll round the city's hotspots
Trendsetters from the Spree
High-tech industry in and around the capital
Berlin à la Carte



Food in Germany

Masters of the Grill
Germany's organic craze
A taste of Germany abroad
Cheese in Germany
Berlin à la Carte
Russian music in Germany
In Bayreuth, shades of St. Petersburg
Chess-boxing: "An intellectual fight club"



Climate change

Global partnerships for clean energy
Sensational climate research in the Arctic
"Temperatures will rise"
Blue gold: Germany collaborates on water projects worldwide
Fresh impetus for clean air
“We Are Observing the Antarctic Very Closely”
Electricity out of the blue
Sunny Prospects for “Solar Valley”
Climate research in the polar ice
The car of the future
At the forefront of green technology
A house with a two-euro monthly heating bill
German and Chinese students study pollution in Beijing
Safer and cleaner – Geothermal energy
Climate change: fact or fiction?
Freiburg: Germany’s greenest city
Climate change: fact or fiction?
German universities go "green"

Integration

Scholarship particpants

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...

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Tianna at the Oktoberfest

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...

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Russia special

Russland\Faculty of Natural Sciences II, uni Hohenheim.

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...

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Reading the newspaper. Photocase/hoellisch (www.hoellisch.de)

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

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Close ties: YG India Special

Bosch in Bangalore: photo (cc) flickr user powru

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...

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Sap Labs

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...

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Mentors for migrants
Foreign correspondents, temporarily
The Polish German
Hip-hop and integration: Interview with Sookee
Integration the fun way – the immigrants' carnival



YG India Special: The best of both worlds
Q & A: Vijay, from India, speaks about life in Germany
YG India Special: Scoring with an Oscar winner
Skilled IT workers make India a global contender
YG India Special: The Matchmaker – Purvi Shah
YG India Special: The new Indian Einsteins
YG India Special: Germany grooves to Bollywood’s beat



Mobility

Alex Watkin

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

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sich ein Herz fassen...photocase user Gerti G

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...

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Au Pairs: The best deal in childcare
Modern-day nomads



German cinema

Sung-Hyung Cho. Photo Tim Wegner with permission Dt.Filminsitute

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

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The Film Academy Baden-Württemberg

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...

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Ambassador of German Film
The new generation of German filmmakers
Fatih Akin: The award-winning German-Turkish director
Moritz Bleibtreu: Acting is in his blood
Daniel Brühl: Germany’s multilingual acting superstar
German directing talent: Marco Kreuzpainter
Life after winning an Oscar
Berlin's long cinema tradition
The Lives of Others
Warning: Do not watch hungry



Traveling in Germany

100th anniversary of the youth hostel
Backpacking through Germany
Getting around Germany for less
Off the beaten track

Italy special in Italian

Tokio Hotel
Perché studio in Germania introduzione
Perché studio in Germania parte I
Perché studio in Germania parte II
Perché studio in Germania parte III

Latin America special

Virtual Germany center for Latin America is online
Q & A: A Cuban chemist speaks about his life in Germany
Germany and Mexico: Did you know?!
Fiesta in the Bundesliga
Creative and young consultants
Q & A: Erika, from Mexico, speaks about her life in Germany
Education for tomorrow’s world
Q & A: My life in Germany

Money Matters

The cost of living
Salaries and taxes
Plastic money: Playing your cards right
Paying bills in Germany
Managing your personal cash flow

Get connected

Your first encounter with Deutsche Telekom
The hurdles to home entertainment
Cell phone deals should be chosen with care
The best way to go online in Germany
The good old letter

Get around

How to get around without a car
Drive legally in Germany
Bikes lanes and trams
Traffic rules you wouldn't expect
Options for occasional drivers

Get integrated

A guide to German etiquette
Get Sporty: There’s no excuse to vegetate
Shopping sprees: How to spend it in Germany
Brush up your German to feel more at home

On the road

Germany from above: YG takes to the skies
Surviving the autobahn – Ten guidelines
The great escape: YG editors go biking in Bayern
Taking trips: Germans thirst for adventure

Media in Germany

Podcasts, videocasts and radio stations in Germany
German magazines
Newspapers in Germany
German books

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