Culture

Apfelstrudel is a traditional Austrian and German pastry that has gained popularity worldwide. It consists of a thin and flaky pastry dough filled with a mixture of thinly sliced apples,…

Germany’s new rappers are the clean-cut boys next door. But are they really rappers? Who cares! They’re selling plenty of tickets and merchandise, and even sharing the stage with their…

The federal President of Germany is the German head of state. On paper that makes him the most powerful political figure in Germany. His main responsibilities and actions are, however,…

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marks the most important event in recent German history. The succeeding reunification of Germany not only reshaped the political, sociological and cultural…

Public holidays in Germany are particular days when employers are obliged to give their employees the day off to commemorate a certain religious or secular event. Businesses, banks and shops…

German Halloween? Today is October 31st and on this date in many English-speaking countries Halloween is celebrated. Children go trick-or-treating, people wear gruesome (or not so gruesome) costumes and haunted…

This event was a few days ago, but I still wanted to mention it, because I thought it’s a really cool idea. I took a few pictures for you. The…

The Alexa Ranking is a well-known ranking mechanism, which sorts websites according to their popularity. Popularity in this case means the average of daily visitors as well as their page…

Here is some more on population in Germany as promised. As of 2008, about 19% of the people living in Germany had an immigrant background – this means that either…

The world’s oldest sculpture, unearthed by archaeologists so far, is a quite recent find. It was only discovered in 2008 by a team of German archaeologists from the University of…