- Politics
- Business
- Culture
- Life
- Science
- Environment
- Regions
- Subjects
- Innovation and Excellence
- Global Partners
- The Energy Revolution
- 125 Years of the Automobile
- Research in the Arctic and Antarctic
- Lifestyles in Germany
- Global Partnership
- Germany – Land of Music
- Economy & innovation
- Campus Germany
- The Unity Generation
- Sport & Language
- Stylish Appearance
- The World of the Media
- Solving the Climate Crisis
- Connecting Worlds of Knowlege
- Civil Society
- Fall of the Wall
- Successful Ideas
- German cinema
- Integration and Diversity
- Global Responsibility
- Sport
- Research
- Environmental Technology
- Berlin
- The Creative Economy
|
Sunday, 12.02.2012 10:55
News
The foundation stone of the EU monetary union
It marked the birth of the euro, when a new era in the history of European cooperation began 20 years ago with a brief...more
News
Goods transport in 2011: volume of transport increasing 6.5%
Goods transport in Germany increased markedly in 2011. According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical...more
OHB System awarded contract for the construction of a further eight Galileo navigation satellites
The Vice President of the European Commission, Antonio Tajani, yesterday 2 February announced the signature of a...more
Current news
Events
Portrait
Cosmopolitan Master of Art
Okwui Enwezor has brought a new international dimension to contemporary art in Europe and the USA and made way for...more
Weather
The Local
Goethe-Institut News
Events Calendar
Overview of events und venues:
> Events Calendar
Linktips
German Information Centre New Delhi
News, information and updates on Germany and its role and relations with South Asia, covering...more
Linktips
German Information Centre Pretoria
The German Information Centre Pretoria aims to be the first contact point for up-to-date...more
Linktips
German Information Center USA
The German Information Center USA (GIC) makes it easy for you to find information about...more
Economy & innovation
Factories of the Future
Germany ranks among the world’s leading business locations. A large number of German companies value the strengths of Germany as a business location and manufacture many of their high-quality goods in their own countrymore
“made in Germany”
What characterizes products from Germany? Does a product's country of origin still really mean anything in a globalized economy? A few answers from five economics experts in the United States, the Arab world, China, Japan and the...more
Campus Germany
Attractive Offers for Young International Scientists
In Germany there is a variety of interesting research grants for highly qualified international postdocs to promote their future in sciencemore
Ten Questions – Ten Answers
If you are interested in studying in Germany, you will have a lot of questions. Here are the answers to the ten leading questions.more
The Unity Generation
Joy Over German Unity Unbroken
Public opinion polls show that people in Germany are happy with the way east and west are growing together. At the same time, they appreciate that it will take time.more
“Developing Eastern Germany” – Success with a Future
The transition from the GDR to the “Powerhouse Eastern Germany” – eastern Germany has caught up in personal prosperity, in the economy and in sciencemore
Sport & Language
The New Lightness and Freedom of German Literature
Too intellectual, too complex, too introspective: often German-language literature was not rated very highly by domestic readers. But the times are changing. Felicitas von Lovenberg, literary critic with the daily Frankfurter...more
An Extraordinary Woman
Fatmire “Lira” Bajramaj is the shooting star of the German national women’s football team – with an unusual career. A portraitmore
Stylish Appearance
Change Through Culture – A Colliery of Ideas
Today, 5.3 million people live here, there are five opera houses and five universities. Yet the Ruhr region is not a city. A fascinating paradox. In 2010, the Ruhr region will be European Capital of Culture, and will present...more
HafenCity: A model project for climate-friendly living and work
Spectacular architecture, Hanseatic stringency, a model for climate-friendly living: HafenCity in Hamburg, the largest urban development programme in Europe, is creating an urbane city structure that breathes. The “real estate...more
The World of the Media
Social Networks in Germany
Web 2.0 is growing increasingly popular among German online users. Bloggers are redefining journalism, millions are into digital networkingmore
Internet Use in Germany
More and more Germans are online. The Internet is now a medium the majority of the population use on a daily basismore
Solving the Climate Crisis
At the Centre of Climate Research
They travel across the Arctic on ice floes and investigate complex climate change processes with the aid of computers: leading climate researchers work in three major think tanks at the Albert Einstein Science Park in Potsdammore
The Third Industrial Revolution
An enormous offshore wind farm in the North Sea, a large geothermal power plant near Hanover and a 400-billion-euro project to generate solar electricity in the desert – Germany is meeting the challenges of climate change with...more
Connecting Worlds of Knowlege
Studying for Reconstruction
Germany is supporting the reconstruction of research and higher education in the conflict regions of Iraq and Afghanistan and promoting academic exchange with special scholarship programmesmore
Beacons of Excellence
Treading new paths together: the Research and Academic Relations Initiative promotes German university exchanges with four centres of excellence.more
Civil Society
Changing the World Together
They help, advise, expose issues and are involved in many fields: NGOs from Germany are important actors in society, not just in Germanymore
Resolving Conflicts, Making Peace
“zivik” is the name of the programme dedicated to the Federal Foreign Office’s work supporting international peace projects and strengthening Germany’s contribution to civil crisis prevention, conflict resolution and peace...more
Fall of the Wall
Searching for Clues in Berlin-Mitte
20 years after the fall of the Wall there are still traces of the two Germanies’ history in the Berlin-Mitte districtmore
The 1989 Generation: Born When the Wall Came Down
They were born in the year the Berlin Wall came down, the structure that divided Germany and the world: the 1989 generation is special. A portrait of four young Germans born at the time of historical changemore
Successful Ideas
Inventive Laboratory of Modern Art
Nucleus of aesthetic design, revolutionary art school and projection surface for innovative ideas: the Bauhaus, an institution with charisma, celebrates its 90th anniversary more
“Ideas Are the Driving Force for Success”
Tim Renner became chief executive of a major music corporation at the age of 36 and was named one of 100 Global Leaders of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2003. The Berlin-based music manager talks about the power of...more
German cinema
Ambassador of German Film
Keen commitment to German film: Goethe Institutes around the world compile a panorama from 900 current and classic German filmsmore
“The Magic of Cinema Is Boundless”
Dieter Kosslick has been directing the Berlinale, Germany’s biggest film festival, since 2001. In an interview he talks about the art of selecting films and the significance of stars on the red carpetmore
Integration and Diversity
A New Style
Technical brilliance, successful integration – no other player embodies Germany’s new football culture like midfield star Mesut Özil.more
A Voyage of Discovery in Washington
In Washington a new museum recently opened dedicated to the often forgotten influence of German immigrants in the history of the United States. At the same time the museum is creating a bridge between the past and the present.more
Global Responsibility
Strategies for More Sustainability
What can stop climate change? Which forms of energy will we use in the future? How can everyone be assured access to enough water? These important questions are closely linked to environmental and climate protectionmore
Crisis Prevention and Global Engagement
Germany is involved in many UN and OSCE missions worldwide aimed at preventing crisesmore
Sport
German Classics
The finest, the best. The sporting icons. Who are Germany’s greatest living stars? Ten sportswomen and men who have made historymore
Promoting Talent
Very few leading athletes can make a living from their sport. That’s why the German government provides support for top sporting talents above and beyond their trainingmore
Research
Academic Excellence
Higher education in Germany is changing fast – as a result of numerous reforms and the Initiative for Excellence. The quality of research and teaching is benefiting from this – and so are studentsmore
The Top Universities in Germany
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) is Munich’s largest institution of higher education and one of Germany’s internationally most renowned universities. With a very strong commitment to...more
Environmental Technology
The Power of the Wind
The story begins with an idea: using the wind to generate electricity. That was how the Enercon company started with its first wind turbine in 1984. Today the business is number one in Germany and a technology leader worldwidemore
High-Tech for H2O
From groundwater protection to water recycling, Germany will be presenting a wealth of innovative technologies and ideas for sustainable water management at Expo 2008 in Zaragozamore
Berlin
Prussia’s Most Beautiful Jewel
Five museums, 6000 years of cultural history: the Museum Island is not just part of the world cultural heritage, it is an aesthetic force – the vision of a Prussian cultural revolution. And to implement it, Berlin will be...more
Prussia’s Cosmos of Culture
SPK – three letters stand for one of the world’s greatest treasure troves, a lively research institution and Germany’s undeclared national heritage foundationmore
The Creative Economy
Publishing Industry: A Successful Creative Sector
For the fourth time in succession, the book market registered a clear increase in turnover in 2007, at 9.6 billion euromore
The feeling that you can achieve something
Knowledge and creativity are the foundations of future growth. How is the world of work changing? Who will be affected by this transformation? Where are the creative centres? An interview with Professor Nico Stehrmore
www.magazine-deutschland.de on Facebook
