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False MemoryThe Mandela Effect

Whether it is a case of believing someone has long since died, although he or she is still in fact enjoying the best of health, or singing song lyrics with the wrong words – when many people collectively remember things falsely, we speak of the Mandela effect. It could never happen to you, right? A look at our examples might prove you wrong.

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<i>Currywurst</i> snack stand in Berlin, the birthplace of the spicy, saucy, German sausage speciality.

Photo (detail): © picture-alliance / imageBroker / Karl F. Schöfmann

Celebrating the currywurst
The curried sausage, an icon of German cuisine

In addition to roast pork with dumplings, a pork joint with sauerkraut, and potato salad, no list of German national dishes would be complete without the humble currywurst or curried sausage. The spicy snack was invented 70 years ago.

Gudrun Gut has been a driving force in the music scene since the 1980s.

Photo (detail): GGut live Sonoras 2018 © Jose M. Pedrajas

Female DJs
More women working the turntables

female:pressure – a network helping to boost the number of female DJs.

A conference with a festival feel: An outdoor space at re:publica on the Station Berlin grounds.

Photo (detail): ©re:publica/Gregor Fischer (CC BY-SA 2.0)

re:publica
Europe’s digital festival

The entire net community looks forward to re:publica Berlin every year – and not just in Germany. The conference’s curator, Geraldine de Bastion, talks about re:publica’s history, its importance abroad, and how Germans are talking about digital issues.

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Tunasikika

A new platform created for emerging artists to explore on-line live streaming music presentation.

Beyong Collecting

The closed conference “Beyond Collecting: New Ethics for Museums in Transition” sheds light on future museum concepts in the Global South.

Latitude

The Goethe-Institut invites experts and creatives worldwide to exchange ideas on colonial power relations, their consequences and, above all, how to dismantle them: in discourses, interviews, opinion articles and art projects. For a decolonized and non-racial world.

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