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The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 8 Feb 12
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Commandos arrest neo-Nazi terror suspect

National: 1 Feb 12
A man accused of supplying a neo-Nazi terror group with weapons was arrested in Düsseldorf on Wednesday morning, accused of being an accessory to six of the ten racist murders said to have been carried out by the gang. READ »

What's on in Germany: January 26 – February 1

Lifestyle: 27 Jan 12
This Week's Highlights: Hitchcock in Frankfurt, indie rock in Munich, and an homage to an electronic music pioneer in Berlin. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 26 Jan 12
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

'Kebab-Murders' called 'worst word of 2011'

Society: 17 Jan 12
A jury of language experts has picked Döner-Morde (Döner Murders) as 2011’s most despicable German word, saying that in the wake of racist murders the term reduced a victimised minority community to food hawkers. READ »

Airports still stingy with their wireless internet

National: 17 Jan 12
German airports are slowly offering more free internet access, but progress is slow, with only Cologne Bonn Airport providing unlimited free surfing. READ »

Man tells court it was dog who strangled wife

Society: 17 Jan 12
A German man suspected of strangling his wife has pointed the finger at the family dog instead, saying the Labrador could have smothered her to death by accident. READ »

Germans' fuss for bubbly 'forces plane to land'

Society: 16 Jan 12
A German couple allegedly forced a Delta Airlines jet to make an unscheduled stop in Florida on Sunday – after making inordinate demands for champagne and food and refusing to sit down despite being told to by plane staff. READ »

Punkrockers ride to ice hockey team's rescue

Sport: 15 Jan 12
Cult punk band Die Toten Hosen are loyal fans of their local ice hockey team in Düsseldorf, so much so they have decided to come to the rescue of the financially strapped club. READ »

Leverkusen fans frantic for Barca match tickets

Sport: 10 Jan 12
Desperate football fans swamped Bayer Leverkusen’s phone lines with 200,000 calls on Tuesday in a frantic attempt to get tickets to the club’s Champions League match against FC Barcelona in February. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 4 Jan 12
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The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 28 Dec 11
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Kobe Bryant turns to German doctor

Sport: 25 Dec 11
One of the United States’ most famous athletes – basketball superstar Kobe Bryant – has revealed that he’s been relying on German medical care to fix his ailing ankle and knee. READ »

Gladbach kick Schalke out of German Cup

Sport: 22 Dec 11
A double by Marco Reus inspired Borussia Mönchengladbach to a 3-1 victory over holders Schalke 04 on Wednesday in their German Cup last-16 clash. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 21 Dec 11
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Americans mull Leipzig consulate closure

National: 20 Dec 11
A US Department of State report has recommended closing the American consulate in Leipzig and reducing staff at other missions in Germany. READ »

Bird-killer rips heads off homing pigeons

Society: 19 Dec 11
An unknown perpetrator broke into a bird-breeding station over the weekend in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein and beheaded 17 homing pigeons. READ »

Winter storm ‘Joachim’ snarls transport

National: 16 Dec 11
The fierce winter storm dubbed ‘Joachim’ has caused the suspension of rail services and snarled road traffic in the western part of Germany. A severe weather alert has been issued for the southern parts of the country. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 14 Dec 11
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Five dogs found skinned

Society: 13 Dec 11
Police in Viersen, near Düsseldorf in western Germany, are searching for the killer of five dogs that were skinned, had their stomachs slit open and their ears cut off before being dumped into a river. READ »

Apple fights to save Christmas sales

National: 10 Dec 11
Apple said Friday it would immediately appeal a German court ruling in favour of rival Motorola in a patent dispute that could see Apple's sales company prevented from selling iPhones and iPads in Germany. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 7 Dec 11
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Elderly raided for WWII massacre in France

National: 5 Dec 11
German authorities said on Monday they had raided the homes of six men suspected of taking part in the Nazi massacre of 642 mainly women and children in a French village in 1944. READ »

Elvis museum rocks quiet Düsseldorf

Society: 2 Dec 11
The biggest Elvis museum outside the States opened in Düsseldorf this week, with exhibits including a guitar he bought while on military service in Germany – and practised on so he could go straight back to playing on his return home. READ »

Euro could collapse in 'three to six months'

Business & Money: 1 Dec 11
The euro will collapse in the next three to six months if nothing dramatic is undertaken to save it, according to a leading German economist, who has called for fast and decisive action. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 30 Nov 11
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Munich ranked most liveable German city

Society: 30 Nov 11
A new survey says Munich is the best German city to live in, followed by Düsseldorf and Frankfurt. READ »

Germany is Europe's biggest polluter

Business & Money: 25 Nov 11
German industry causes more environmental and health damage than any other country in the European Union, amounting to billions of euros each year, according to a new EU report. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 23 Nov 11
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Mid-sized towns hit worst by bike crime

Society: 22 Nov 11
Nearly 180,000 bikes were stolen across Germany in 2010, estimated at a value of €120 million. According to a new study, more than over 90 percent of bicycle thefts go unsolved. READ »

Amazon under fire for unpaid Christmas helpers

National: 17 Nov 11
Online retail giant Amazon has come under fire in Germany for using nearly 1,500 people on the most basic social support as unpaid packers in its logistics centres in the run-up to Christmas. READ »

Scientologists try to board Pirate Party

Politics: 17 Nov 11
Scientologists are trying to join Germany’s upstart Pirate Party, it has emerged, just weeks after it was revealed that two regional party figures had previously belonged to the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD). READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 16 Nov 11
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Investigation widens into neo-Nazi terror trio

National: 12 Nov 11
Investigators believe a suspected far right terror cell allegedly involved in a German policewoman's killing may be linked to other unsolved crimes with anti-Semitic or racist motives. READ »

Karneval season kicks off at 11:11am

Society: 11 Nov 11
Who let the fools out? Each year at 11:11am on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, Germany marks the beginning of the traditional ‘Fifth Season’ ahead of Karneval celebrations. READ »

US terror charges for man held in Germany

National: 11 Nov 11
A man held in German custody could be jailed for life if convicted by an American court on charges that he conspired to provide Al-Qaida with explosives and training, prosecutors in the United States said on Thursday. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 9 Nov 11
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Kippenberger artwork worth €800,000 'cleaned' away

Society: 3 Nov 11
A cleaning woman at a museum in Dortmund who mistook a Martin Kippenberger sculpture for an unsightly mess has destroyed the valuable artwork beyond recognition. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 2 Nov 11
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Munich named Germany's fastest city

Society: 31 Oct 11
Munich’s motorists have the quickest commutes, a new survey revealed Monday. Düsseldorf, meanwhile, was deemed to have Germany's slowest transport network. READ »

What's on in Germany: October 27 - November 2

Lifestyle: 27 Oct 11
This Week's Highlights: Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations in Berlin, A 3D tribute to Pink Floyd in Hamburg and the Frankfurt Marathon. READ »

Smart posters offer speedy shopping while waiting for a train

Science & Technology: 25 Oct 11
German commuters are being confronted with the first smart-poster shops in Europe – which have a scan-and-go procedure for smartphones allowing purchases to be made while waiting for a train. READ »

Casino to return famed painting stolen by Nazis

Society: 25 Oct 11
A German casino on Tuesday will return a 300-year-old Dutch painting stolen by the Nazis from German-Jewish art dealer Max Stern's estate, one of his beneficiaries announced. READ »

Insurer covered terrorist wanted internationally

National: 21 Oct 11
German insurer Victoria ignored warnings from intelligence services and insured an internationally wanted terrorist for more than two years – with policies worth up to €2 million – according to the Handelsblatt newspaper. READ »

Right wing group tricks state into selling manor

Society: 18 Oct 11
A person suspected of being associated with an alleged neo-Nazi group has bought a manor from the state of Thuringia, apparently breaking rules on selling state property to extremists. READ »

Germany complete perfect campaign

Sport: 12 Oct 11
Germany beat Belgium 3-1 Tuesday to complete their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign with a perfect ten wins from ten games and end the visitors hopes of reaching next year's finals. READ »

Germany aim to set records against Belgium

Sport: 11 Oct 11
Belgium have not qualified for a major finals since the 2002 World Cup and to keep alive their hopes of reaching Euro 2012 they will need to do something no-one else has managed in the qualifiers and beat Germany on Tuesday. READ »

Microsoft's Streetside better accepted than Google's Street View

Science & Technology: 10 Oct 11
Microsoft’s Streetside service, which allows users to see virtual views of streets and houses, in a similar way to Google’s Street View is only generating a fraction of the opposition. READ »

Germany down Turkey in Euro qualifier

Sport: 8 Oct 11
Germany earned their ninth consecutive win in Euro 2012 qualifiers on Friday night in a commanding 3-1 victory over Turkey in Istanbul. READ »

German economy heads for 'stagnation'

Business & Money: 5 Oct 11
Germany may not be on the brink of a severe recession, but the country long seen as the financial powerhouse of Europe appears to be headed for economic stagnation. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 5 Oct 11
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 28 Sep 11
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Doctors go on series of two-hour strikes

Society: 26 Sep 11
Hundreds of doctors at German university medical clinics began a series of two-hour strikes on Monday that will continue until Wednesday, ahead of Thursday’s negotiations with the wage commission of the federal states (TdL) in Berlin. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 21 Sep 11
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Air Berlin to save €200 mln with reduced fleet

Business & Money: 21 Sep 11
Air Berlin, Germany’s second-largest airline, is announcing dramatic savings plans to improve its results by €200 million a year, by reducing its fleet from the current figure of 170 to 152 by next summer. READ »

Credit Suisse ends tax probe with €150 mln

Business & Money: 19 Sep 11
Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse said on Monday that it has reached a deal with German authorities to end a tax evasion probe, and that it would pay €150 million ($205 million) to settle the case. READ »

What's on in Germany: September 15 - 21

Lifestyle: 15 Sep 11
This Week's Highlights: Renaissance portraits in Berlin, an autumn festival in Frankfurt, and Oktoberfest parades in Munich. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 14 Sep 11
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Apple wins key iPad patent case against Samsung

Science & Technology: 9 Sep 11
Apple won the latest battle in a global legal war with Samsung on Friday when a German court banned the Korean firm from selling a tablet computer in Germany, ruling it had copied the iPad. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 7 Sep 11
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Berlin has Europe’s cleanest air

National: 7 Sep 11
Germany’s capital Berlin has topped a list of major European cities for best clean air practices meant to decrease soot and other particulate pollution. READ »

Samsung withdraws tablet from fair after Apple complaints

Science & Technology: 5 Sep 11
South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Monday it has withdrawn its new tablet computer from a major electronics fair in Berlin after a German court accepted a complaint from US rival Apple. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 31 Aug 11
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

New Otto Dix paintings found

Society: 30 Aug 11
Four previously unknown watercolours by Otto Dix, one of Germany’s most important expressionist painters, have been discovered in Bavaria. The works come from Dix’s Düsseldorf period in 1922 and 1923. READ »

Local reader helps film legend Luise Rainer get spot on 'Boulevard of Stars'

Society: 26 Aug 11
Luise Rainer, a nearly forgotten yet beloved German actress will be honoured on Berlin's "Boulevard of Stars" next month after one man campaigned for the 101-year-old to receive the acknowledgment she deserves. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 24 Aug 11
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Storms chaos hits North Rhine-Westphalia

National: 19 Aug 11
Violent storms felled trees and flooded roads and basements throughout North Rhine-Westphalia, leaving emergency workers struggling to make it to all the calls for help. READ »

Air Berlin boss resigns after poor results

Business & Money: 18 Aug 11
The chairman of Germany’s second biggest airline Air Berlin resigned on Thursday, just after announcing increased losses and a drastic savings plan. He will be initially replaced by former Deutsche Bahn chairman Hartmut Mehdorn. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 17 Aug 11
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

What's on in Germany: August 11 - 17

Lifestyle: 11 Aug 11
This Week's Highlights: Public art in Frankfurt, tall ships in Rostock, and Berlin marks the 50th anniversary of the building of the Wall. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 10 Aug 11
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 3 Aug 11
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Giving beer a home in the Rhineland

Lifestyle: 28 Jul 11
Traditional beers are experiencing a renaissance among German drinkers. Alexander Bakst takes a tour of the Rhineland to compare Kölsch and Alt, two regional brews steeped in history and ancient rivalry. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 27 Jul 11
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The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 20 Jul 11
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The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 13 Jul 11
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Antitrust worries as RWE and Gazprom mull partnership

Business & Money: 11 Jul 11
A tie-up between German energy giant RWE and Russian gas company Gazprom could face serious antitrust obstacles, according to the Federal Cartel Office, which regulates business competition in Germany. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 6 Jul 11
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The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 29 Jun 11
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After violence, fearful Wuppertal tries to ban Facebook shindig

Science & Technology: 22 Jun 11
A week after a similar Facebook party turned chaotic, authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia are desperately trying to ban a July 1 bash organized on the social networking website that they fear could become unsafe. READ »