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Art scene

Germany, home to roughly 80 million people, has a vibrant cultural scene.

This is a collection of DW's latest content related to the art scene.

Karin Guggeis (l), Projektleitung des Museums, steht in der Ausstellung vom Museum Fünf Kontinente neben Albert Gouaffo, Projektkoordinator der Universität Dschang (Kamerun), neben dem Blauen-Reiter Pfosten. Das Provenienzforschungsprojekt um die Raubkunst mit unter anderem dem Blaue-Reiter Pfosten, eine Reliquiarfigur aus Holz, wurde vorgestellt. +++ dpa-Bildfunk +++

'Institutional racism': Experts from Cameroon denied visas 21.01.2022

After their visas were rejected, Cameroonian researchers may only participate online in a colonial looted art workshop organized by Munich's ethnological Museum Fünf Kontinente.
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What is the craziest placename you have ever heard of? 21.01.2022

There are strange placenames around the world. A village in Wales is even called: „Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch“. We want to know what the most unusual placename is that you have heard of?
Munich - The Edge of War. (L to R) Jeremy Irons as Neville Chamberlain, George MacKay as Hugh Legat, in Munich - The Edge of War. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2021

Spy thriller 'Munich: The Edge of War' asks: What if? 21.01.2022

Could Hitler have been stopped in 1938? A Netflix production starring Jeremy Irons as former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain explores the question.
Der Autor Martin Suter (M) steht mit Bastian Schweinsteiger und seiner Ehefrau Ana Ivanovic bei der Präsentation der Biografie Einer von euch von Martin Suter über Bastian Schweinsteiger im Hotel de Rome zusammen auf der Bühne. Das Buch erscheint am 26.01.2022 im Diogenes Verlag.

From Hornby to Schweinsteiger: Must-read soccer novels and memoirs 21.01.2022

A new novel putting the spotlight on German football star Bastian "Basti" Schweinsteiger is coming out. Many other books focus on the popular sport.

Spaziergänger sind am 23.12.2015 bei Ahrenshoop (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) bei starkem Wind am fast menschenleeren Strand an der Ostsee unterwegs. Foto: Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa

Top 10 winter islands in Germany 21.01.2022

Germany's islands are popular summer holiday destinations, yet there's plenty to explore in winter, too. DW presents a selection of island winter wonderlands, from Rügen to Mainau.
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Singer Meat Loaf dies at 74 21.01.2022

Meat Loaf, the singer best known for the "Bat Out of Hell" album and the song "I'd Do Anything for Love," has died at the age of 74. He also appeared in more than 50 films and TV shows.
Belgium-British teenage pilot Zara Rutherford smiles as she gets out of the cockpit after landing her Shark ultralight plane at the Kortrijk airport in Kortrijk, Belgium, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. The 19-year-old Belgium-British pilot Zara Rutherford has set a world record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, touching her small airplane down in western Belgium on Thursday, 155 days after she departed. Rutherford will find herself in the Guinness World Records book after setting the mark that had been held by 30-year-old American aviator Shaesta Waiz since 2017. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Teen pilot becomes youngest woman to fly solo around the world 20.01.2022

A 19-year-old has become the youngest woman to complete a round-the-world journey by plane on her own. She completed the trip in five months despite several obstacles.
Fotografie des sogenannten Hitler-Fensters in der St. Peter und Paul Kirche in Weil der Stadt. NUTZUNGSRECHTE nur in Zusammenhang mit einer Berichterstattung zur Kirche.

Why some church windows depict Hitler 20.01.2022

Devil or fool? Several churches have stained-glass windows portraying Adolf Hitler. Who were the artists and what are the artworks all about?

American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. CAP/MPI/RS ©RS/MPI/Capital Pictures

Amanda Gorman: A year after 'The Hill We Climb' 20.01.2022

Two books, the covers of Vogue and TIME, a Super Bowl debut, and a 2036 presidential bid backed by Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton. This poet has been busy.
Film still 'The One That Got Away': Hardy Krüger behind barbed wire.

Actor Hardy Krüger: from Nazi Germany to Hollywood fame 20.01.2022

Hardy Krüger, who has died at age 93, rose to world fame after World War II, but he had his beginnings in Nazi-era propaganda films.
A woman gets a manicure at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, as Dutch museums, theaters and concert halls played host Wednesday to businesses that are allowed to open to customers as a protest against their own continuing lockdown closures. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch museums open as salons to protest COVID rules 20.01.2022

Famed museums and Amsterdam's concert hall offered haircuts and manicures, as the cultural sector protested lockdown measures that allow shops, hairdressers and gyms to open — but not cultural venues.
Hardy Krueger, Lesung von Hardy Krueger aus seinem Buch Was das Leben sich erlaubt in der Komoedie am Winterhuder Faehrhaus. Hamburg, 06.11.2016 | Verwendung weltweit

German actor Hardy Krüger dies at 93 20.01.2022

He had attended an elite Nazi school, but after the war, he became a film star and an outspoken opponent of far-right violence. He has died at the age of 93.
16.01.2020 Außenansicht Gedenkstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz, Berlin

What Holocaust remembrance work means today 20.01.2022

In 1942, Nazi leaders met in a villa to plan the Holocaust: 80 years after the Wannsee Conference, the memorial center's director Deborah Hartmann still sees links with today's society.
***ACHTUNG: Nur zur Berichterstattung über den genannten Film im Zusammenhang mit der Berlinale 2022*** Denis Ménochet, Isabelle Adjani Peter Von Kant by François Ozon FRA 2021, Competition © C. Bethuel / FOZ

Berlinale reveals its competition program 19.01.2022

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert and Nick Cave are just some of the stars in the lineup. But, with rising COVID-19 infections, the Berlin International Film Festival isn't about to party.
Das gemeinschaftliche ruruHaus in Kassel (Foto vom 20.08.2021). Es wurde als Labor fuer die documenta 15 eingerichtet, von dem aus erste Faeden in die Stadt und zu ihren Bewohnern gesponnen werden. Das Gebaeude in der Innenstadt im Stil der 1950er-Jahre-Architektur ist der erste Spielort der documenta 15. In der Vorbereitung der Kunstausstellung dient er als Basis, von der aus Verbindungen zu Initiativen vor Ort geknuepft werden. Eingeladen sind Kuenstlerinnen und Kuenstler, Studierende aber auch andere Gemeinschaften, den Ort mit Leben zu fuellen. Zugleich ist das ruruHaus die Andock-Station fuer internationale Kuenstler, die zur Teilnahme an der documenta 15 eingeladen sind. Die Weltkunstausstellung documenta fifteen vom 18. Juni bis 25. September 2022 in Kassel soll nach der schweren Corona-Zeit ein Zeichen der Hoffnung und des Aufbruchs setzen. Das Konzept stammt von Kuenstlern aus Indonesien. (Siehe epd-Feature vom 30.08.2021)

Documenta faces challenges months before art show's start 19.01.2022

Indonesian collective Ruangrupa, curators of the world-famous contemporary art show, refute accusations of antisemitism. The pandemic is also making planning difficult.

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The Wannsee Conference Memorial 19.01.2022

On January 20, 1942, leading figures in the Nazi state apparatus met at the Wannsee villa in Berlin for the infamous Wannsee Conference. It was the prelude to the largest, bureaucratically planned, industrial mass murder in history.
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