Roma Deportations from France
“Roma, on Move, Test Europe’s ‘Open Borders'” New York Times “‘A Disgrace’: EU Rebukes France Over Roma Expulsions.” Spiegel Online
Özil the German
NY Times, Roger Cohen, 7/2/10 JOHANNESBURG — No player has fascinated me more at the World Cup than Mesut Özil. He has the languid self-assurance on the ball that comes only to the greatest footballers. Where others are hurried, he has time. He conjures space with a shrug. His left foot can, with equal ease, […]
stil in berlin.
Stil in Berlin is the premier German fashion blog, with street style photos taken and posted daily by the blog's maintainers, Mary Scherpe and Dario Natale. The photographs showcase the unique and vibrant street fashion culture that is to be found walking through the neighborhoods of Berlin. The subjects of these photos come from all […]
Goethe-Institute: Courses for children and teens
This website provides information into a variety of courses for children and teens on various subjects, in addition to the German language. The courses are primarily recreational, focusing on sports or music, taught in many regions in Germany. The website can be viewed in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, and Turkish, seemingly to cater […]
Eric Breininger’s Death: The Memoirs of a German Jihadist
This article discusses memoir of the German-born Jihadist Eric Breiniger, who was recently killed in Pakistan, and whose memoir was recently published on a Jihadist website. The well-written, although not a hundred percent confirmed, memoir of the terrorist tells of his conversion to Islam and quick radicalization, despite growing up ‘normal’ in Germany. The most […]
Dispelling the Myth of ‘Parallel Societies’: Are Berlin’s Muslims a Model for Integration?
This article discusses the new report by the Open Society Institute, “Muslims in Berlin,” a study that focuses on Berlin’s Kreuzberg district and tells of a fairly positive story of integration. Far from being a parallel society, and contrary to many assumptions, Muslims in Kreuzberg make daily or weekly contact with their non-Muslim neighbors and […]
The Impact of Audre Lorde’s Politics and Poetics on Afro-German Women Writers
In her essay, Jennifer Michaels traces the influence of Audre Lorde’s poetic achievements in the work of several Afro-German poets, exploring the texts of May Ayim in particular. Lorde felt that since there was no self-defined Afro-German community (she herself coined the hyphenated term that so many came to embrace), many of these marginalized women […]
CDU Turkish Minister Appointment ‘Flops’
Aygül Özkan, the first Muslim woman with Turkish origin appointment for state minister in Lower Saxony from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) , caused an uproar on Monday when she suggested that crucifixes should be banned in classrooms. Özkan is the first immigrant ever appointed to a state cabinet. Her recent appointment seemed to reflect […]
motown auf deutsch.
The Supremes, The Temptations, and Marvin Gaye are a few of the most legendary Motown artists. Many of us are familiar with their hits from the ’60s and ’70s…but could you imagine these same hits being recorded in German? Yes, such recordings do exist. Decades ago, before English began to saturate the entertainment industry even […]
Friendship!
“Germany, huh? So you’re Nazis” “No, we’re not Nazis. We’re communists. Ja, free communists.” This tongue-in-cheek exchange between two friends, Tom and Veit, and the American immigration officer in New York characterizes the humor and events explored in Markus Goller’s 2010 film, Friendship! The story is simple: after the Berlin Wall falls in 1989, two […]