You are here: Homepage Countries Germany Themen All Themes From To filter The Brazilian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz Portrait: Victor Boyko / Getty Images Personal history | Brazil A new world in every film The Brazilian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz has always been drawn to distant horizons. From Brazil via New York, he found his way to Berlin By Karim Aïnouz 03/14/2024 Photo: Kristin Bethge Personal history | Angola The artist with two faces Between fiction and beats, between Africa and Europe: as an author and musician, Kalaf Epalanga is always travelling between worlds By Kalaf Epalanga 12/22/2023 Photo: Dario Lehner Pop culture | Turkey Protest songs from the car radio When screenwriter Cem Kaya reflects on his childhood, he remembers the long car journeys from Germany to Turkey - and the music of the “Aşiks”. On the travelling singers of Anatolia and their links to pop music by immigrant workers in Germany By Cem Kaya 12/15/2023 Writer and journalist Mohamed Amjahid Photo: Antoine Midant Media | Germany Beyond the European bubble German media outlets are often indifferent when it comes to reporting from outside Europe. German journalist Mohamed Amjahid has realised that writing about sex helps break down barriers By Mohamed Amjahid 06/01/2023 Aurora Dickie (left) dances the Lilac Fairy in "Sleeping Beauty" by Marcia Haydée at the Staatsballett Berlin Photo: Yan Revazov Ballet “More beauty than pain” What does it take to get to the top - and what do you have to give up? A conversation with ballerina Aurora Dickie Interview with Aurora Dickie 01/09/2023 Musician and composer Malakoff Kowalski lives in Berlin Photo: Julija Goyd Playlist | Minimalism Pared-down sound In music, forgoing excess often stands for minimalist innovation. Rarely has less been so much more than in the nine piano pieces that the musician Malakoff Kowalski handpicked for this playlist By Malakoff Kowalski 01/09/2023 Mohammad El Hassan at work in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg Photo: Cécile Calla Personal history | Lebanon Stateless no more Civil war, nightly air raids, a lack of water: as a refugee from Palestine, Mohammad El-Hassan, felt he had no future in Lebanon. He fled to Berlin in 2003 and today works as a cook in Prenzlauer Berg By Mohammad El-Hassan 10/01/2022 French dancer Maïmouna Coulibaly has been living in Berlin since 2018 Photo: Birger Jens Dance | Europe Therapeutic bum wriggling French dancer Maïmouna Coulibaly took to African dance to process experiences of sexual violence and a conservative upbringing. Now she helps others do the same with her “Booty therapy” By Maïmouna Coulibaly 07/27/2022 Welcome to the European Union Illustration: TengMeu Cultural policy | Europe Welcome to the club! In the light of the Ukraine war, Europe needs to allow new countries to join and also strengthen its cultural policy. After all, the European Union is first and foremost a cultural project By Gijs de Vries 07/01/2022 Short fiction | Water On Präsenzer Lake A woman is sitting alone on a bench on a shore in spring, waiting for her lover. A tale about a secret place by the water By Katerina Poladjan 07/01/2022 From the event Being Sensitive at the Stuttgart Literaturhaus, with Naika Foroutan (on the wall screen) and Svenja Flaßpöhler (right), moderated by Jenny Friedrich-Freksa (left) Photo: Literaturhaus Stuttgart Black and white thinking Changing our mindset Who has the right to speak and what can be said? The philosopher Svenja Flaßpöhler and the sociologist Naika Foroutan discuss inclusive language, and the fight for equality. A conversation. Interview with Svenja Flaßpöhler, Naika Foroutan 04/14/2022 Refugees from Ukraine arrive at the main station in Przemysl, Poland Black and white thinking Where do we stand now? Discrimination, hate crime, equality: Where was progress seen over the past years and what more needs to be done? By Julia Neumann 04/14/2022 The magnificent Carpenter Theater in Richmond, Virginia. Photo: Unsplash Theatre | Opinion I think that we need to relearn how to treasure theatre Our society considers culture and theatre to be a luxury. Yet theatre is a great school of empathy and needs to be valued. By Necati Öziri 04/14/2022 Welket Bungué in Rio de Janeiro Foto: Kristin Bethge Personal history | Guinea-Bissau Hamlet, Hackman and homeland Welket Bungué, born in Xitole in the south of Guinea-Bissau in 1988, is an actor and filmmaker. After living and working in Portugal and Brazil, he now lives in Berlin. By Welket Bungué 10/01/2021 The Socrates Program at Bard College Berlin offers classes for people who do not have formal qualifications Photo: Bard College Berlin Education Learning without obstacles No qualifications but you still want to study? The “Socrates” project in Berlin, Vienna and Budapest makes it happen By Leonie Düngefeld 10/01/2021 Author Olga Grjasnowa Photo: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images Talking point | Money Is money bad for the character? About money worries and chocolate bars By Olga Grjasnowa 07/01/2021 Tiaji Sio works for the German foreign office. In 2020 she was voted by Forbes magazine as one of the most successful people under 30 in Germany Photo: Lam Nguyen Diplomacy | Germany “The role models are missing” German ambassadors are mostly white and male. The up-and-coming diplomat, Tiaji Sio, explains why this has to change By Tiaji Sio 07/01/2021 The entrance portal of the Linden Museum in Stuttgart Photo: Harald Voelkl/Linden-Museum Stuttgart Museum | Germany A difficult legacy One of the biggest ethnography museums in Europe is facing up to its colonial past. How exactly is it going about it? By Karl-Heinz Meier-Braun 07/01/2021 In 2020, Bjeen Alhassan received the German Integration Award for her work Photo: Guido Bergmann Personal history | Syria Coming up for air after the war Bjeen Alhassan, born in Qamishli, Syria, now lives in Germany. In her Facebook group “Learning with Bijin” she helps refugee women, earning her the German Integration Award By Bjeen Alhassan 07/01/2021 German scholar, author and keynote speaker Auma Obama Photo: Picture Alliance Personal history | From Kenya to Germany In a strong voice Auma Obama is a German scholar, sociologist, author - and Barack Obama’s sister. She doesn’t like to discuss her famous brother, preferring to talk about her work between Germany and Kenya By Auma Obama 04/01/2021
The Brazilian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz Portrait: Victor Boyko / Getty Images Personal history | Brazil A new world in every film The Brazilian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz has always been drawn to distant horizons. From Brazil via New York, he found his way to Berlin By Karim Aïnouz 03/14/2024
Photo: Kristin Bethge Personal history | Angola The artist with two faces Between fiction and beats, between Africa and Europe: as an author and musician, Kalaf Epalanga is always travelling between worlds By Kalaf Epalanga 12/22/2023
Photo: Dario Lehner Pop culture | Turkey Protest songs from the car radio When screenwriter Cem Kaya reflects on his childhood, he remembers the long car journeys from Germany to Turkey - and the music of the “Aşiks”. On the travelling singers of Anatolia and their links to pop music by immigrant workers in Germany By Cem Kaya 12/15/2023
Writer and journalist Mohamed Amjahid Photo: Antoine Midant Media | Germany Beyond the European bubble German media outlets are often indifferent when it comes to reporting from outside Europe. German journalist Mohamed Amjahid has realised that writing about sex helps break down barriers By Mohamed Amjahid 06/01/2023
Aurora Dickie (left) dances the Lilac Fairy in "Sleeping Beauty" by Marcia Haydée at the Staatsballett Berlin Photo: Yan Revazov Ballet “More beauty than pain” What does it take to get to the top - and what do you have to give up? A conversation with ballerina Aurora Dickie Interview with Aurora Dickie 01/09/2023
Musician and composer Malakoff Kowalski lives in Berlin Photo: Julija Goyd Playlist | Minimalism Pared-down sound In music, forgoing excess often stands for minimalist innovation. Rarely has less been so much more than in the nine piano pieces that the musician Malakoff Kowalski handpicked for this playlist By Malakoff Kowalski 01/09/2023
Mohammad El Hassan at work in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg Photo: Cécile Calla Personal history | Lebanon Stateless no more Civil war, nightly air raids, a lack of water: as a refugee from Palestine, Mohammad El-Hassan, felt he had no future in Lebanon. He fled to Berlin in 2003 and today works as a cook in Prenzlauer Berg By Mohammad El-Hassan 10/01/2022
French dancer Maïmouna Coulibaly has been living in Berlin since 2018 Photo: Birger Jens Dance | Europe Therapeutic bum wriggling French dancer Maïmouna Coulibaly took to African dance to process experiences of sexual violence and a conservative upbringing. Now she helps others do the same with her “Booty therapy” By Maïmouna Coulibaly 07/27/2022
Welcome to the European Union Illustration: TengMeu Cultural policy | Europe Welcome to the club! In the light of the Ukraine war, Europe needs to allow new countries to join and also strengthen its cultural policy. After all, the European Union is first and foremost a cultural project By Gijs de Vries 07/01/2022
Short fiction | Water On Präsenzer Lake A woman is sitting alone on a bench on a shore in spring, waiting for her lover. A tale about a secret place by the water By Katerina Poladjan 07/01/2022
From the event Being Sensitive at the Stuttgart Literaturhaus, with Naika Foroutan (on the wall screen) and Svenja Flaßpöhler (right), moderated by Jenny Friedrich-Freksa (left) Photo: Literaturhaus Stuttgart Black and white thinking Changing our mindset Who has the right to speak and what can be said? The philosopher Svenja Flaßpöhler and the sociologist Naika Foroutan discuss inclusive language, and the fight for equality. A conversation. Interview with Svenja Flaßpöhler, Naika Foroutan 04/14/2022
Refugees from Ukraine arrive at the main station in Przemysl, Poland Black and white thinking Where do we stand now? Discrimination, hate crime, equality: Where was progress seen over the past years and what more needs to be done? By Julia Neumann 04/14/2022
The magnificent Carpenter Theater in Richmond, Virginia. Photo: Unsplash Theatre | Opinion I think that we need to relearn how to treasure theatre Our society considers culture and theatre to be a luxury. Yet theatre is a great school of empathy and needs to be valued. By Necati Öziri 04/14/2022
Welket Bungué in Rio de Janeiro Foto: Kristin Bethge Personal history | Guinea-Bissau Hamlet, Hackman and homeland Welket Bungué, born in Xitole in the south of Guinea-Bissau in 1988, is an actor and filmmaker. After living and working in Portugal and Brazil, he now lives in Berlin. By Welket Bungué 10/01/2021
The Socrates Program at Bard College Berlin offers classes for people who do not have formal qualifications Photo: Bard College Berlin Education Learning without obstacles No qualifications but you still want to study? The “Socrates” project in Berlin, Vienna and Budapest makes it happen By Leonie Düngefeld 10/01/2021
Author Olga Grjasnowa Photo: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images Talking point | Money Is money bad for the character? About money worries and chocolate bars By Olga Grjasnowa 07/01/2021
Tiaji Sio works for the German foreign office. In 2020 she was voted by Forbes magazine as one of the most successful people under 30 in Germany Photo: Lam Nguyen Diplomacy | Germany “The role models are missing” German ambassadors are mostly white and male. The up-and-coming diplomat, Tiaji Sio, explains why this has to change By Tiaji Sio 07/01/2021
The entrance portal of the Linden Museum in Stuttgart Photo: Harald Voelkl/Linden-Museum Stuttgart Museum | Germany A difficult legacy One of the biggest ethnography museums in Europe is facing up to its colonial past. How exactly is it going about it? By Karl-Heinz Meier-Braun 07/01/2021
In 2020, Bjeen Alhassan received the German Integration Award for her work Photo: Guido Bergmann Personal history | Syria Coming up for air after the war Bjeen Alhassan, born in Qamishli, Syria, now lives in Germany. In her Facebook group “Learning with Bijin” she helps refugee women, earning her the German Integration Award By Bjeen Alhassan 07/01/2021
German scholar, author and keynote speaker Auma Obama Photo: Picture Alliance Personal history | From Kenya to Germany In a strong voice Auma Obama is a German scholar, sociologist, author - and Barack Obama’s sister. She doesn’t like to discuss her famous brother, preferring to talk about her work between Germany and Kenya By Auma Obama 04/01/2021