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Professor Christoph Meinel, Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, and initiator of the openHPI education platform, talks about digital learning.

For many decades a strict dress code was maintained in the worlds of politics and business. Now, however, it is being revoked from on high. Not everyone is pleased.

Dutch-language literature is popular worldwide. In 2016, the Netherlands and Flanders are presenting their world of literature as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

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The German Wine Harvest Festival

The German Wine Harvest Festival in Neustadt on the Weinstraße is the highpoint of the wine harvest season

Michael Pappas - Urbane Künste Ruhr

The Actopolis Project

The international project Actopolis wants to change cities with artistic ideas.

Deutsche Botschaft Panama

Ambassador Karl-Otto König in Panama

In the deutschland.de-series “Dispatches”, ambassadors and high-ranking German staff in international organizations give insights into their work. Part 23: Karl-Otto König in Panama.

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Art

Art to go

Re-purposed vending machines in the German city of Stuttgart are dispensing low-cost art to collectors.

BMW

Powerful Mini variant unveiled

Mini, a subsidiary of the German carmaker BMW, presents a high-powered version of its Clubman model.

Football

Looking ahead after defeat

Bayern Munich host on-form Cologne in the German Bundesliga after a Champions League loss in Spain.

European Central Bank

Draghi faces German critics

The head of the European Central Bank explains his bank's policies to critical German lawmakers.

Economy

Unemployment stays down

The unemployment rate in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, remains at an unprecedented low.

Topography of Terror

Exhibition on mass shootings

Berlin's Topography of Terror shows Nazi Germany's mass murder of Jews during World War II.

The talk of the town in Germany at the moment

Reconstruction

Help for  Syria’s cultural heritage

There are many threats to cultural heritage in Syria. The Federal Foreign Office is engaging with initiatives and networks and thinking about the difficult time after the civil war.

Dispatches

Mechtild Rössler, World Heritage Centre

Ambassadors and senior German employees in international organizations present insights into their work in the deutschland.de series “Dispatches”. Part 22: Mechtild Rössler, director of the Division for Heritage and the World Heritage Centre at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris.

Sport

Germany’s Olympic hopefuls (3)

German Sport Aid supports talented athletes outside the professional sector on the way to success. For deutschland.de, it introduces a few of its favourites for medals at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Cultural Heritage

Syria’s cultural heritage

Germany is involved at many levels in the preservation of Syria’s cultural heritage. The German Archaeological Institute (DAI) is playing a central role – an interview with its president, Professor Friederike Fless.

Dossier: New cultural positions

More networking, interaction between artists and their audiences, real life on the stage. What’s new in the worlds of art and culture

Literature

One language,countless voices

Germany is an immigration country, Which is also a blessing for German literature.

Literature

The new  role of the reader

The Internet is changing the way literature is produced, with more and more people choosing to read and write together.

Art

Experimental  documenta 14

documenta 14 is looming on the horizon. It will be held in 2017 at two equal partner venues: Kassel and Athens.

Globalization

Networked  art

“Globale” at the Karlsruhe Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) provides a unique forum for exchange.

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