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The Local's guide to skiing in Germany

Lifestyle: 21 Dec 11
There’s more to skiing in Germany than the northernmost bits of the Alps. As the new season begins, The Local introduces some alternative slopes that just might be closer than you think. READ »

Germany tries to block Palestine UNESCO bid

Politics: 31 Oct 11
Germany joined the United States and Israel on Monday in protesting Palestine’s acceptance as full member of the United Nations cultural organization UNESCO, sparking a foreign policy rift within the European Union. READ »

Climbing legends in the Dahner Felsenland

Travel: 25 Aug 11
Looking for “legendary” rock climbing, Matt Herron heads to Rhineland-Palatinate’s Dahner Felsenland. READ »

Building a better house

Lifestyle: 6 Jul 11
What does Germany’s modernist Bauhaus movement have to do with the housing estate down your street? Siobhan Dowling heads to Dessau to find out. READ »

UNESCO puts five German beech forests on world heritage list

National: 25 Jun 11
The UN's education, scientific and cultural organization, UNESCO, named five German beech forests as Natural World Heritage sites on Saturday. READ »

Beer purity law proposed as UN world cultural heritage

Society: 27 May 11
A group of German brewers, politicians and public figures have called for the country's 16th-century beer purity law to be included on the UN's list of "intangible" world cultural treasures. READ »

What's on in Germany: May 26 - June 1

Lifestyle: 26 May 11
This week’s highlights: Contemporary design in Berlin, classic cars in Hamburg, and a night of music in Munich. READ »

Sacked diplomat blames anti-German British bias

Society: 3 Mar 11
A German-born diplomat who was fired from his job in Paris with the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) is suing the British government for racial discrimination, he told The Local. READ »

Turkey wants its sphinx back, minister says

Science & Technology: 24 Feb 11
Turkey’s culture minister gave Germany an ultimatum on Thursday – return a valuable sphinx displayed at Berlin’s Pergamon Museum or lose the right to continue digging at the archaeological site where it was found. READ »

What's on in Germany: December 23 - January 5

Lifestyle: 23 Dec 10
The next fortnight's highlights: The Nutcracker in Hamburg, Marilyn Monroe in Berlin and Frankfurt, and magic in Munich. READ »

Barefoot through Germany's tidal flats with a mailbag

Society: 20 Oct 10
Meet Germany’s most singular postal worker: Over the last nine years Knud Knudsen has gained a following for his twice-weekly barefoot treks across the country's North Sea tidal mudflats to deliver letters to a lone island couple. READ »

Heaven and Earth: Gliding and hiking in the Rhön

Travel: 23 Sep 10
The picturesque Rhön Mountain region is Germany’s mecca for gliders, but as Alannah Eames discovers, the surrounding UNESCO Biosphere Reserve offers plenty of great hiking and other activities. READ »

What's on in Germany: August 19 - 25

Lifestyle: 19 Aug 10
This week's highlights: Pop in Cologne, Argentine stories in Frankfurt, dragonboat races in Hamburg and a palace festival in Potsdam. READ »

Flooded Görlitz takes legal action against Polish dam operators

National: 13 Aug 10
Officials in Görlitz announced Friday they had registered a criminal complaint against the operators of the Polish Witka dam after the eastern German city suffered devastating flooding from mass quantities of water sent downriver. READ »

Lone pensioner keeps dog sled crabbing tradition alive

Society: 13 Aug 10
Though his catches may be meagre, a lone pensioner is single-handedly keeping the centuries-old tradition of tidal flat crab fishing via dog sled alive on Germany's North Sea coast. READ »

Floodwaters recede but Brandenburg still on alert

National: 10 Aug 10
Parts of the eastern German state of Brandenburg remained on alert Tuesday afternoon, with flood waters gradually receding but rain forecast for later in the week. READ »

Brandenburg floods still at high warning level

National: 10 Aug 10
Floodwaters in the eastern state of Brandenburg slowly began to recede overnight, but the authorities remained on high alert on Tuesday morning. READ »

Brandenburg braces for flooding as Saxony soaks

National: 9 Aug 10
Water levels continued to rise in the eastern German state of Brandenburg on Monday, as an UNESCO heritage site was completely flooded in neighbouring Saxony. READ »

Harz canal system honoured by UNESCO

National: 1 Aug 10
A medieval water management system in the picturesque Harz region in eastern Germany was made a UNESCO cultural heritage site on Sunday. READ »

Combing through Quedlinburg's charms

Travel: 21 Jul 10
As UNESCO cultural heritage sites go, charming Quedlinburg in Germany’s Harz region is more cheese cake and mediaeval feminism than baroque masterpieces – and that suits Hannah Cleaver just fine. READ »

Bavaria offers access to rare books with mobile application

Science & Technology: 14 Jul 10
The Bavarian State Library this week released a free application for Apple’s iPhone and iPad offering users the ability to browse rare books including the Guttenberg Bible and precious medieval manuscripts. READ »

Coastal authorities practice for potential oil spills

National: 1 Jul 10
As the devastating oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico continues gush, German coastal authorities prepared to deal with a similar accident with a large-scale clean-up and rescue exercise this week. READ »

Once upon a time in Goslar

Travel: 23 Feb 10
The fairytale town of Goslar makes a great base for exploring northern Germany’s Harz region. Campbell Jefferys visits the popular UNESCO World Heritage site in Lower Saxony. READ »

'Metropolis' restored to pride of place in Berlin

Society: 13 Feb 10
"Metropolis" triumphantly came home to Berlin on Friday as the silent classic was shown in full for the first time since 1927 following the sensational 2008 discovery of key scenes thought lost for ever. READ »

Exhibition gives first peek at restored masterpiece 'Metropolis'

Society: 21 Jan 10
Film lovers can catch a preview of the restored German silent film legend “Metropolis” at a new exhibition in Berlin beginning on Thursday – one month ahead of the film’s debut at the Berlin International Festival. READ »

Alpine association threatens to scupper Munich Olympic bid

Sport: 19 Jan 10
The German Alpine Association (DAV) is threatening to boycott the joint bid by Munich and Garmisch-Partenkirchen for the 2018 Winter Olympics unless the concept becomes more environmentally friendly. READ »

Berlinale to screen restored 'Metropolis' at Brandenburg Gate

Society: 7 Jan 10
The restored lost cut of Fritz Lang’s legendary 1927 silent film “Metropolis” will be beamed onto the Brandenburg Gate for the public as it premieres at the Berlinale, the film festival's organisers said on Thursday. READ »

Stuttgart station revamp raises hopes, hackles

Society: 4 Dec 09
Plans to build a futuristic new train station in Stuttgart have many concerned the project is too expensive and will destroy the city’s architectural heritage. David Wroe reports. READ »

Museum Island

Travel: 18 Nov 09
A "temple city of the arts" lies in the centre of Berlin on an island in the River Spree. The Old Museum designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and built in 1830 was the first building on Berlin Museum Island and the first public museum in Prussia. READ »

Archaeologists recover mediaeval shipwreck from Lake Constance

Society: 5 Nov 09
Archaeologists have finished recovering a 600-year-old ship from Lake Constance discovered near a mediaeval Benedictine abbey, the state of Baden-Württemberg announced on Thursday. READ »

Lost cut of Metropolis premiering at Berlinale

Society: 29 Oct 09
The original lost cut of Fritz Lang’s legendary 1927 silent film “Metropolis” – found last year in a Buenos Aires archive – will premiere at the Berlinale in February following its restoration, the film festival's organisers said on Thursday. READ »

Protest tries to bounce reconstruction of Berlin city palace

Society: 17 Oct 09
Hoping to rally opposition to plans to rebuild Berlin’s historic city palace, a colourful protest with an inflatable castle and paper crowns took place in the German capital on Saturday. READ »

Nefertiti's museum home reopens after 70 years

Society: 16 Oct 09
Closed for 70 years following heavy bomb damage during World War II, Berlin's Neues Museum throws open its doors again on Friday, with 3,400-year-old Egyptian beauty Queen Nefertiti star of the show. READ »

Escaping Berlin: Autumn colours from a Spreewald canoe

Travel: 9 Sep 09
The long, lazy Indian summer days are swiftly coming to an end, but as Kristen Allen reports, there are few better ways to soak up the season than a relaxing and affordable jaunt to the canals of the Spreewald nature preserve. READ »

Prussian palaces to get multi-million euro facelift

Society: 20 Aug 09
Some of Germany’s most treasured historic Prussian landmarks will soon get a €155-million makeover, the federal government announced this week. READ »

Dresden’s ‘Blue Wonder’ bridge dilapidated

National: 16 Aug 09
One of the Saxon capital’s landmark bridges over the Elbe, the 116-year-old Blue Wonder, suffers from major rust and water damage and needs urgent repair, Dresden city officials said this weekend. READ »

Bauhaus exhibition draws huge crowds in Berlin

Society: 4 Aug 09
Ninety years after it began revolutionising design, and six decades after the Nazis banned it, Germany's famed Bauhaus movement is luring huge crowds to a new show in Berlin. READ »

Lost mini-horses taken in by kindly Bavarian monks

Society: 27 Jul 09
A lost herd of "peaceful" mini-horses from Bavaria has been taken in by a cloister of Franciscan monks until their owner is found, police in the town of Bad Neustadt reported Monday. READ »

Horses gallop 'on the bottom of the ocean'

Sport: 20 Jul 09
More than 35,000 people came out to see the 35th annual Duhner Wattrennen, a series of horse races that took place on the tidal flats near Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony on Sunday. READ »

Dresden dwellers want UNESCO title back

Society: 29 Jun 09
The majority of Dresden residents advocate a renewed effort to get their city back on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list after losing the title last week, a survey by daily Sächsische Zeitung found on Monday. READ »

Wattenmeer mudflats named world heritage site

National: 26 Jun 09
Germany’s Wattenmeer – North Sea mudflats - feeding grounds for millions of migratory birds, was made a UNESCO world natural heritage site on Friday. The decision comes a day after Dresden was stripped of its title. READ »

Dresden UNESCO debacle embarrasses Germany

Society: 26 Jun 09
In blow to Germany's cherished Kulturnation reputation, the baroque city of Dresden lost its UNESCO world heritage status this week. The Local’s media roundup explores the cultural fallout. READ »

Dresden loses UNESCO world heritage status

Society: 25 Jun 09
Dresden has lost its UNESCO world heritage site status for building a controversial bridge over the Elbe River. READ »

Dresdeners do not care about UNESCO title

National: 21 Jun 09
More than half of the people in Dresden do not care if their city loses its UNESCO world cultural heritage title, threatened by the building of a controversial bridge over the Elbe River. READ »

Klitschko unfazed by 'bloodsport' bout in Gelsenkirchen

Sport: 19 Jun 09
Wladimir Klitschko will not only risk his world heavyweight titles in Gelsenkirchen against Ruslan Chagaev on Saturday, but also possibly his health. READ »

Dresden to lose world heritage status

National: 13 Jun 09
Dresden will almost certainly lose its UNESCO world heritage site status due to plans to build a bridge over the Elbe River, according to a news report Saturday. READ »

UNESCO strife costs Dresden funds

Society: 13 Jun 09
Dresden’s plans to build a bridge over the Elbe river have endangered the Saxon capital’s UNSECO status. Now the city may also lose government funds due to the dispute, the daily Sächsische Zeitung reported Saturday. READ »

Berlin votes to keep Tempelhof an architectural monument

Society: 8 Jun 09
Berlin’s Tempelhof-Schöneberg district voted overwhelmingly in a referendum on Sunday to keep the storied Tempelhof airport an architectural monument and apply for UNESCO World Heritage status. READ »

Swabian Alb recognized as UNESCO nature haven

Society: 26 May 09
A nature preserve near Stuttgart and the “in-between city” of St. Ingbert in Germany have been added to UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR), the organisation announced on Tuesday. READ »

Marching to America's tune in Saarland

Travel: 13 May 09
Saarland might be known for its affinity for French culture, but as Rhea Wessel reports, this summer the state will become Germany’s hotspot for American music. READ »

Obama planning to visit Germany soon

Politics: 6 May 09
US President Barack Obama will return to Germany for a visit soon, according to daily Bild on Wednesday. READ »

The haus that Gropius built

Lifestyle: 23 Mar 09
Nine decades after Walter Gropius founded his revolutionary Bauhaus academy, dozens of exhibitions across Germany are celebrating a movement that embodied much more than simply aesthetics. READ »

Court rules Dresden tunnel would damage Elbe more than bridge

National: 20 Mar 09
A Dresden court has ruled that a tunnel under the Elbe River would be more environmentally damaging than a proposed bridge that caused UNESCO to warn the city it could lose its World Heritage Site status. READ »

Star architect Chipperfield hands over keys to Berlin museum

Society: 5 Mar 09
British star architect David Chipperfield unveiled Berlin's Neues Museum (New Museum) Thursday after a more than decade-long restoration to repair bomb damage dating from World War II. READ »

Thirteen languages face extinction

Society: 20 Feb 09
Germany got a few words of warning from UNESCO this week. According to the cultural organisation’s new online Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, the country is home to 13 languages threatened with extinction. READ »

Two Harz beat as one

Travel: 23 Jan 09
People flock to the mountainous Harz region year round to climb the highest peak in northern Germany the Brocken. Campbell Jefferys explores spectacular countryside once split by the Iron Curtain. READ »

Group wants Oktoberfest named 'intangible' UNESCO site

National: 13 Jan 09
The German festival association DSB wants Munich’s Oktoberfest to be added to the UNESCO’s list as an Intangible Cultural Heritage element, daily tz reported on Tuesday. READ »

The Warsaw-Berlin connection

Travel: 30 Nov 08
German railway operator Deutsche Bahn offers an affordable Berlin-Warsaw Express route. The Local’s Sarah Roberts hopped on board to discover a vibrant city still recovering from a troubled history between the two countries. READ »

Cologne Cathedral named Germany's top tourist site

National: 20 Nov 08
The Cologne Cathedral is the most beloved tourist attraction in Germany, according to a new poll published by the German Tourism Association (DTV) on Thursday. READ »

Activist group petitions to save Tempelhof airport

Society: 6 Oct 08
Berlin residents failed to vote to save the city’s historic Tempelhof airport this April, but now an activist group says they are petitioning for a new referendum that could preserve it as an architectural monument. READ »

UNESCO honours Berlin modernist housing projects

National: 8 Jul 08
UNESCO has added six Berlin housing projects, said to have ushered in a new global model for council estates at the beginning of the 20th century, to its World Heritage List. READ »

Dresden keeps UNESCO heritage status – for now

Society: 4 Jul 08
UNESCO announced on Thursday night it will allow Dresden to keep its world heritage status, but said the eastern German city could lose the honour if it continues building a controversial bridge over the Elbe River. READ »

Dresden might lose world heritage site status in July

Society: 21 Jun 08
Dresden could lose its coveted ranking as a world heritage site when the Unesco committee meets in Quebec next month. READ »

Missing German researcher found alive in Congo

National: 2 Jun 08
A German woman who went missing last month in the Democratic Republic of Congo while studying great apes has been found alive, the German foreign ministry said Monday. Exact circumstances of her disappearance remain unclear. READ »

UNESCO boss calls for new poll on Dresden bridge

National: 11 May 08
UNESCO chief Francesco Bandarin has urged politicians in Dresden to stop building a controversial bridge that could cost the city’s Elbe River Valley its coveted World Heritage status and to hold a new referendum on the issue. READ »

Dessau's gigantic burial pyramid

Society: 8 Apr 08
Whimsical plans to make depressed eastern Germany economically viable abound, writes AFP's Emsie Ferreira. After fake tropical paradise near Berlin, a gigantic pyramid in Dessau could be next. READ »

Tunnel could save Dresden’s UNESCO status

National: 8 Mar 08
Last year UNESCO threatened to remove Dresden's World Heritage Site distinction if the German city built a bridge over the Elbe River. Now the organization has offered an alternative solution. READ »

Munich man sentenced to clean graffiti off New Zealand glacier

Society: 26 Feb 08
A German tourist from Munich has been arrested in New Zealand for spraying graffiti on a glacier and nearby boulders. His punishment? Scrub it off the UNESCO World Heritage site. READ »

Tempelhof Airport’s heritage in jeopardy?

Society: 22 Jan 08
The iconic airport's heritage is in danger, as Berliners attempt to preserve it by getting it on the UNESCO World Heritage list. READ »

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