Culture and education

Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst

Fellowship Announcement for the year 2013

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) hereby advertises the following three fellowship Announcements for the year 2013. Postdoctoral Fellowships in Germany for former DAAD In-Region / In-Country...

Studying in Germany

Germany is an increasingly attractive place in which to study, offering international degrees such as Bachelor and Master degrees, courses taught in English and a system which enables credits for attendance and examination passes to be accumulated and transferred.

Why learn German?

Information for people who want to take a front seat in the twenty-first century.

Cultural life in Germany

Cultural life in Germany is varied and exciting - why not discover it for yourself!

Deutsche Welle and Myspace

Deutsche Welle and Myspace present the stars of tomorrow’s music scene

In cooperation with the leading social entertainment platform Myspace, Deutsche Welle’s popular English-language radio show Pulse presents the most interesting newcomers on the German music scene.  

Kultautor: Hermann Hesse

Rediscovering the cult author Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse is one of the most widely read German-language authors; his books are world literature classics and he is one of the most famous 20th century writers. His great literary success is based on such works as Siddharta, Steppenwolf, The Glass Bead Game or the novel about a schoolboy Beneath the Wheel. His books, which have been translated into more than 70 languages, total around 150 million published copies.

Hansesail Rostock

Rostock sets sail

It’s one of the most popular maritime cultural festivals in the summer months: each year, the Hanseatic city of Rostock welcomes more than a million visitors to the Hanse Sail event which takes place over the second weekend in August. This year the 22nd international gathering of sailing ships is being staged from 9 to 12 August 2012. Between the City Harbour and the mouth of the River Warnow, visitors can go aboard many traditional sailing vessels and Museum ships and enjoy trips on the Baltic Sea.

Wismar

40 years of unique cultural diversity

It is one of the world’s most successful programmes for cultural exchange: in 2012 UNESCO is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention. That’s why people around the globe will be focusing this year on the significance of the convention for cultural cooperation.

Sport without Borders: International Sports Promotion of the Federal Foreign Office

Dressurreiterin Isabell Werth

It stands for fairness, tolerance and peaceful competition: International Sports Promotion of the Federal Foreign Office is a global success story and one example of how sport can build bridges across linguistic, political and cultural divides. In the past 50 years the Federal Foreign Office and its partners – including the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), the German Football Association (DFB), the German Athletics Federation (DLV) and the Sport University in Leipzig – have supported more than 1,300 sporting projects in 100 countries as part of its International Sports Promotion.