Politics and Contemporary History in Germany – Panorama

Koreans have been part of German society for decades. 2013 is the 50th anniversary of the labour recruitment agreement between Germany and Korea.More ...

In June 2012 the Cologne District Court judged the circumcision of boys to be a form of bodily harm. Meanwhile the Bundestag has passed a law on circumcision.More ...

Stammheim acquired a depressing notoriety in the nineteen seventies. During the course of a two-year project, photographer Andreas Magdanz has addressed this sensitive subject.More ...

The trend to emigration from Germany of the past decade continues. About its motives we can only speculate.More ...

Rosa examines how acceleration has changed our relationship to the world and threatens to derail democraticy.More ...

An Interim Summary of the Recent Debate on “Post-Modern”, “Post-Capitalism” and “Post-Democracy” by Hans-Martin Schönherr-Mann.More ...

Many regard the cultural funding system as in urgent need of reform. An interview with Dr. Norbert Sievers, Executive Director of the Association for Cultural Policy (Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft).More ...

On 10 December 2012 the European Union was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Rightly?More ...

In future the national museums in Europe are to open multidimensional perspectives on the history and culture of both the individual countries and on Europe as a whole.More ...

German culture can’t be reduced to pictures of rutting stags hanging on the living room wall – nor can Sinti and Roma culture to gypsy kitschMore ...

In late 1991, Gorbachev announced the end of the Soviet Union. 20 years later, media looked back once more at this historic event. An interview with Gemma Pörzgen.More ...

An interview about the present and the future of the Arab bloc.More ...

Does the public sphere have a different structure in the digital age than in the past? Some answers from Bamberg sociology professor Gerhard Schulze.More ...

The economic and financial crisis has changed the flows of European migration.More ...

The introduction of the euro was supposed to strengthen the integration of the European Union. Now the currency crisis threatens to blow up the EU.More ...

Those that need not fear being held accountable for the consequences of their actions, enter more readily into enterprises that promise huge profits but are also bound up with serious dangers.More ...

What role can academia and political education play in the digital age of remembrance.More ...

Peace education and education for reconciliation – that is the motto of German international missions in areas of conflict.More ...

What role do the social media play in the changes taking place in political communication?More ...

Remembrance and Memory - A discussion about definitions with Aleida Assmann.More ...

In May 2010, Federal President Horst Köhler resigned after a radio interview. What influence does reporting have on politics? An analysis by media researcher Lutz Hachmeister.More ...

An interview with cultural studies scholar Thomas Macho on the dramaturgy of the anniversary the Fall of the Wall.More ...

Thinking in alternatives is part of the inalienable core of the European intellectual tradition, says Germany’s leading utopia researcher utopia researcher.More ...

Street names not only help us to find our way around, but they also reflect the signs of the times.More ...

In gender walking participants scrutinise the city from a very particular perspective: the view through gender glasses.More ...

The former atomic shelter for the government of North Rhine-Westphalia has opened to the general public.More ...

We have never been so obsessed with history. Martin Sabrow, historian and director of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Centre for Research on Contemporary History) in Potsdam, sees the reasons for this boom in history as the result of society’s lack of utopian vision of progress and its ever growing need to look back and remember – the culture of remembrance. In order to satisfy this demand for history, the Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin) is now offering a Master’s degree course in “Public History”. A course for up-and-coming historical event managers.More ...

Starting this September in Germany young people will be able to take part in a new volunteer program that will broaden their cultural horizons. They have to be aged between 18 and 26 years old and they can apply for either a six-month or a 12-month stay abroad. The costs will be born by the German Federal Foreign Office.More ...

They've been called for by historians, examined by sociologists and analysed by anthropologists: the history of emotions remains to this day a branch of human science that throws up many questions. Goethe-Online discussed the subject with Professor Ute Frevert.More ...

The German Cultural Council's book Die Kirchen, die unbekannte kulturpolitische Macht (e.g. Former churches now serving as cultural venues) questions the statement that the churches have no influence on cultural policy.More ...

The European Resistance Archive publishes interviews with former members of the Resistance on the Internet. By Christian WeißMore ...

Is history only subjective memory? What importance do the media have for history, and what is the task of historical scholarship? The historian Prof. Hans Mommsen responds to these and other questions in an interview with Richard Lamers.More ...

Helga Hirsch's book Entwurzelt. Vom Verlust der Heimat zwischen Oder und Bug (i.e. Uprooted. The Loss of Homeland between Oder and Bug) is a belated lesson in history.More ...

Terrorism in Germany, published by Klaus Weinhauer, is a collection of 15 articles by academics seeking to describe and analyse the phenomenon of left-wing terrorism from the perspectives of social and political science.More ...

"Left-wing terrorism" thirty years ago was not a specifically German phenomenon. In Italy at that time, for example, the "Brigate Rosse", the Red Brigades, spread fear and horror. We talked to the social scientist Wolfgang Kraushaar about the "Red Army Faction" (RAF) in Germany, still a divided country at the time.More ...

Cultural management in Europe is to be systematically evaluated. A project of the Institute for Cultural Policy of the University of Hildesheim.More ...