Modern Life

“Sport does Germany good!“ is the motto used by the German Sports Confederation – the umbrella organisation of German sports federations – to present the variety of services provided by the more than 80,000 sports associations in Germany with their 27 million members (of whom more than 10 million are girls and women). Sport gets people (and things) moving – from mass sport for young and old to top performances in the Olympics and World Championships, which always attract a high level of interest among the German public. People are extremely interested in sport, and not just as spectators.More ...

“So where are your gender statistics?” Anyone who raises their eyebrows at that question obviously isn’t up to speed with gender mainstreaming. For the past ten years, the German Government has been attempting to integrate the gender dimension across its policy agenda – with mixed success.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 ...