Poor ticket sales have forced British superstar-chef Jamie Oliver to postpone the forthcoming German premiere of his cooking stage show in Hamburg, daily <i>Bild</i> reported on Tuesday.
Jewish leaders expressed outrage Monday over two "hate crimes" committed in Germany over the weekend, before the 70th anniversary of the Nazis' Kristallnacht pogrom.
Hamburg politicians are spearheading a discussion about racist discrimination by club bouncers in the city’s famous red-light Reeperbahn district after recent complaints from an Ethiopian patron.
Eight people were injured at the Hamburg headquarters of the German Bundesbank when mysterious gas seeped out of bags of old Deutsche mark coins they were cleaning, authorities reported on Monday.
Thousands of people looking for romance – or a sneaky affair – by advertising in local papers in the Hamburg and Berlin area could be in for a nasty shock after it was revealed that their full details were open for perusal via the internet.
Google has appealed two Hamburg district court rulings that prohibit the company from displaying thumbnails of copyrighted images without permission, the internet search engine told The Local on Wednesday.
Weeks of daily protests by left-wingers outside a neo-Nazi clothes shop in Hamburg have reportedly resulted in forcing the owner to accept a pay-off to move out.
Tribal style lower-back tattoos known as <i>Arschgeweih</i>, or “ass antlers” in Germany, were popular in the 1990s. But now a herd of Germans are stampeding to get them removed as they and other tattoos go out of fashion.
Transportation Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee on Thursday called for a dramatic expansion of bicycle use in Germany's cities as a means to combat climate change.
Millions of spiders have colonized the HafenCity revitalization of Hamburg's old port district, daily <i>Berliner Morgenpost</i> reported on Monday. Some windows alone are infested with more than 700 creepy crawlers.
Nearly 1,000 police officers were sent into the Schanzenviertel in central Hamburg on Saturday night after a street festival deteriorated into rioting.
Building costs for Hamburg's new philharmonic have exploded by as much as €100 million, according to anonymous reports in German daily <i>Bild</i> on Wednesday.
An extraordinary row has broken out between police authorities, over 21 officers from Berlin who are working in Hamburg and want to move back home – but whose return is being blocked.
SV Lieth, a sporting club in the northern German town of Elmshorn, has won a filthy changing room competition sponsored by a cleaning product manufacturer.
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, <i>Neue Presse</i> reported on Friday.
The Hagenbeck Tierpark zoo in Hamburg is in mourning on Thursday after one of their orangutans took a deadly fall and drowned when a visitor tried to feed her.
Hamburg police have arrested a Berlin man who tried to blow up his Berlin apartment building last Friday, Berlin daily <i>Berliner Morgenpost</i> reported Wednesday.
Renate Künast, the parliamentary leader for Germany’s environmentalist Green party, said on Friday the chances for a political alliance with the Christian Democrats (CDU) were “sinking rapidly” over the conservatives’ continued support for nuclear power.
Hamburg is filling up with a horde of bikers this weekend for the port city’s annual Harley Davidson festival – this year the great-grandson of the firm's legendary founder is even putting in an appearance.
