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The following articles have been tagged with "Body_worlds":

What's on in Germany: July 14 - July 20

Lifestyle: 14 Jul 11
This Week's Highlights: A Bollywood festival comes to Stuttgart, Hamburg hosts a triathlon, and the Alvin Ailey Company dances in Berlin. READ »

Knut to be skinned, plasticized by 'Dr Death'

Society: 1 Apr 11
The skinless body of Berlin's beloved polar bear Knut will be plasticized and put on display by the notorious German anatomist Gunther von Hagens known as “Dr Death” – zoo officials announced on Friday. READ »

Ailing 'Dr. Death' to put own body on display

Society: 5 Jan 11
Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist dubbed "Doctor Death" who has gained fame worldwide by preserving and displaying dead bodies, said Wednesday he is terminally ill and plans to exhibit his own corpse. READ »

'Dr. Death' takes body parts online

Society: 21 Oct 10
Gunther von Hagens, the man behind the controversial anatomical Body Worlds exhibitions, announced this week he would be opening an online store selling his human and animal plastinations. But church leaders in Germany are outraged. READ »

'Dr. Death' opens shop selling human cross sections

Society: 28 May 10
Gunther von Hagens, the man behind the controversial anatomical Body Worlds exhibitions, on Friday reopened his Brandenburg plastination plant. The facility comes compete with a shop selling human and animal cross sections. READ »

Zoo opens Body Worlds anatomical exhibition for animals

Society: 18 Mar 10
The controversial creator of Body Worlds is bringing a new anatomical exhibition to the Neunkirchen Zoo. The show features some of the world’s largest animals preserved in various states of dissection using a plastination process. READ »

'Dr. Death' plans to plastinate King of Pop

Society: 29 Jun 09
Controversial Body Worlds creator Gunther von Hagens plans to preserve the late Michael Jackson’s body in a dancing pose for display using his plastination process, a spokesperson told The Local on Monday. READ »

Exhibition with corpses having sex riles Berlin

Society: 7 May 09
Gunther von Hagens, the man behind the controversial anatomical Body Worlds shows, has sparked outrage by showing dissected corpses having sex. Netzeitung’s Kerstin Rottmann looks at his lastest provocation. READ »

'Dr. Death' wants dead baby gorilla from Münster zoo

Society: 22 Aug 08
For the last six days, a grief-stricken mother gorilla in the Münster zoo has refused to let go of her dead baby. Now controversial anatomist Gunther von Hagens says he wants it for his plastination exhibitions. READ »

Body Worlds anatomist wants drowned German orangutan

Science & Technology: 1 Aug 08
After the tragic drowning death of the orangutan Leila in Hamburg this week, controversial anatomist Gunther von Hagens said he wants to use her body in one of his plastination exhibitions, Neue Presse reported on Friday. READ »

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What's on in Germany: February 9 - 15
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Find the latest movies in English playing in Germany with The Local's cinema guide.
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Germany is battling the increasingly widespread phenomenon of "burnout" which is supposedly costing its economy billions of euros each year.
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OPINION »
The economy in shambles, angry street protests and the government on the brink after passing unpopular reforms. But this is not Greece in 2012 – it was Germany a decade ago. Marc Young looks back to see an agenda for the future.
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OPINION »
Germany’s public transportation largely operates on the honour system, which makes fare dodging easy. You can have your say on how Germany should deal with the problem.
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SOCIETY »
Macho German football legend Rudi Assauer says he has Alzheimer’s Disease, an admission one expert told The Local could help stoke discussion of an illness often considered taboo.
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A 64-year-old tub of American lard has been deemed fit for human consumption by food safety authorities in the eastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
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LIFESTYLE »
As Hamburg’s legendary Reeperbahn strip gentrifies, Stephen Lowman reports how the city’s “sinful mile” is changing.
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