Germany, Europe's festival heartland
There’s something to suit everyone’s musical tastes during Germany’s summer of festivals. Even marginal groups can enjoy several days of live music entertainment in the open air nowadays, from goth to lovers of African music to fans of the particular breed of heavy metal bands.
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Beethovenfest in 2008 features politics of music
Every autumn Bonn, the birthplace of Ludwig van Beethoven reverberates to the strains of the annual Bonn Beethoven Festival or Beethovenfest. This year's festival, from 29th August – 28th September, will explore the relationship between power, politics and music. Works by concentration camp prisoners and Kurt Masur's Beethoven Symphony cycle are on the programme.
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Hollywood helps revive Berlin's former movie glory
Star-studded movie productions with Hollywood A-list actors are returning a film studio near Berlin to its long-lost glitz.
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German school students reproduce world’s largest Kandinsky
On 2nd August 2008, the German town of Weilheim opened its 2,100 square foot reproduction of Russian expressionist artist Wassily Kandinsky’s painting of the town. 500 school students and townspeople were involved in this unique project that can be viewed till October 2008. 
• Photo Gallery: World's largest Kandinsky
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Goethe-Institut enters the virtual world of Second Life
The Goethe-Institut is now in Second Life, the virtual internet world that is entirely created and developed by its inhabitants. On the Second Life island of the Goethe-Institut there are videos, introductory German courses, a moderated German get together and a cultural programme. A live concert by the singer Bernd Begemann launched the project on Monday, 28th July 2008.
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Curtain rises on a new era at the 97th Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth
The deeply conservative Wagner opera festival, run by descendants of composer Richard Wagner opened on Friday, 25th July in Bayreuth, Germany. The annual festival is experimenting this year with 21st century ideas such as live streaming to a paying online audience.
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Languages without borders – mobile video competition in Germany
Multilingualism has always been a catalyst for new ideas in the field of art. It has captured the imagination of various artists from different fields, genres and times. Giving a platform to these kinds of ideas, Germany’s Goethe Institute is inviting multilingual people from around the world for a unique competition.
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Berlin Fashion Week ends
The 3rd Berlin Fashion Week came to a close Sunday having drawn crowds of spectators and German glitterati galore to celebrate the four-day off-beat spectacle.
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Annual German festival of Indian films opens in Stuttgart
An entertaining documentary about a village and its problems with a wild bull opened Germany's only annual festival of Indian cinema, Bollywood and Beyond, on July 16, in the southeastern city of Stuttgart.
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Berlin housing projects declared UNESCO World Heritage Site
UNESCO has added six Berlin housing projects to its World Heritage List. The homes, built in the early 1900s, served as a model of social housing that improved living conditions for low-income residents.
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