Modern life

Bayreuth is famous around the world primarily as the city of Richard Wagner. Pianist Maria Saulich is currently working on setting up the event program for the Wagner Anniversary 2013 celebration and told us a bit about what makes this Bavarian city so attractive.More ...

Live in the big city or in the country? This question is about more than simply where to live. Behind the alternative “Town or Country” lie very individual dreams and ideas about life.More ...

Germany – a country at the heart of Europe, which was reinvented in 1945 and redefined in 1990 with the unification of the two German states, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic. A country which stands for economic might, for cars and beer, for poets and philosophers, for composers and designers, for book fairs and the Oktoberfest, but also for the perpetual search for its own identity. Germany – a country full of contrasts, between the Alps and the sea, between the former Eastern bloc and the Atlantic Alliance, between the Oder and the Rhine.More ...