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German architect designs new multimedia museum for Korean artist Nam June Paik

German architect Kirsten Schemel's career has been launched with the contract for a museum in South Korea. The building is expected to house the installations and video sculptures of famous Korean artist Nam June Paik. more...

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Klezmer and the Pope - the musician Giora Feidman overcomes borders

His clarinet can laugh and cry, sigh and sob, jubilate and moan. The Jewish musician Giora Feidman has been giving most of his concerts in Germany for years. more...

German jazz veteran Wolfgang Dauner is an experienced improviser

Wolfgang Dauner is one of the German jazz greats. The man from southwest Germany excels on the piano, trumpet and synthesizer. more...

Germany turns out top performers for musical productions

Berlins University of the Arts trains top-class performers for musical productions through an integrated programme of studies. more...

A German organ composition that lasts for centuries

Taking things «as slow as possible» is being taken literally in the German town of Halberstadt where a piece of music will take 639 years to be played. more...

Craftsman Heinz Jäger delivers barrel organs as far as China and Japan

Black Forest craftsmen set the tone for the production of this mechanical musical instrument. Some 200 years after the first barrel organ, the tradition lives on. more...

«A looking glass into the heart of literature» - The Modern Literature Museum in Marbach

Marbach, the birthplace of German classic poet Friedrich Schiller, is home to the new Modern Literature Museum or LiMo for short. more...

«A shock of a positive kind» - foreign musicians rave about Germany

Germany enjoys an excellent reputation for music studies, but some experts complain that the country's music colleges are failing to respond to market needs. more...

Bestselling author Patrick Sueskind - Germany's literary phantom

Patrick Sueskind's greatest success is considered to be the novel Perfume, which has sold 15 million copies around the world. It is soon to be made into a film. more...

An artistic revamp digs a defunct coal mine out of the doldrums

Industrial ruins in Germany are being revamped as venues for art, theatre and music. One example is the Ferropolis - a former open-cast mine in Saxony-Anhalt. more...

Czech artist finds a home from home in Worpswede

Initially, she didn't take to the flat terrain of northern Germany, but Czech artist Ivanka Svobodova-Rinke now feels at home in an artists' village. more...

A German has gained fame as a tango dancer in Argentina

«It's always been may dream to dance,» says Nicole Nau from Duesseldorf. She went to Buenos Aires to make it come true and found her life partner there too. more...

Ciro Cappellari: «For me, art is always political»

Whether for a German language cop show, documentary or movie, Argentine director Ciro Cappellari is one of the most sought after people in his field. more...

A Brazilian in Duesseldorf is moved by moving pictures

The Brazilian Alexandre Magno has been living in Duesseldorf for nearly 20 years now. The artist's preferred forms of expression have been films and videos. more...

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Drama, comedy, whodunnits - the Kiel Polish Theatre has a wide range

The Kiel Polish Theatre in northern Germany has put on a broad range of plays since 1982. Founder Tadeusz Galia is an actor, director, set designer and works in the box office too. more...

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Artist and cyber-freak Peter Weibel looks to break through barriers

Whether as a dog on all fours or as an action artist, Peter Weibel loves scandal. Today he heads the Centre for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe. more...

Frankfurt jazzman Alfred Harth finds new home in Seoul

Germany's financial centre Frankfurt has plenty of its own skyscrapers. But Frankfurt jazz musician Alfred Harth finds the vibe among Seoul's 12 million inhabitants truly cosmopolitan. more...

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South Tyrolean businessman in Thuringia for the long haul

He's not involved in the production of pizza or pasta but Italian Kurt Holzknecht, whose firm makes razor blades, caters for the clean-cut Mediterranean lifestyle. more...

The prestigious Thomanerchor - high-brow chorales and hard rock

In the famous boys' choir in Leipzig, they not only work hard practicing for the large international tours, but also for every routine events. more...

Rebellious Turkish-German author makes good

Born in Anatolia and raised in Germany, Feridun Zaimoglu has been a labourer, dishwasher and provocateur. Now he is a prize-winning author. more...

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