Contemporary Living

The Goethe-Institut has teamed up with Chicago’s Free Spirit Media and the Hamburg radio and television station TIDE to get high school students from both sides of the Atlantic dialoging about the issues young adults see themselves facing, and how to address them constructively.More ...

It is a big anniversary year for Germany. Sixty years since the Berlin airlift and the signing of the constitution, the Grundgesetz. And of course 20 years since the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of communism and the reunification of the country. So Germany should be celebrating a party all year long, right? Wrong. An apostil from Roger BoyesMore ...

When actors from all around the world have a German voice, it is not because they are polyglots. Voice actors make cinema and TV stars comprehensible for the audience.More ...

For decades Bavaria has been the embodiment of Germany for foreigners – Germany made flesh. And what flesh! It was – how shall we say this? – typisch deutsch. An apostil from Roger Boyes.More ...

Wicked tongues claim that German living rooms are still a bastion of “Gelsenkirchen Baroque” – with its weighty wall units, a cumbersome though comfortable three-piece suite and a coffee table in dark oak veneer. Not true, say the advertising experts. And they should know – for they look into people's hearts and minds, and that leads them through their living rooms.More ...