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German U21 wins European Football Championship

January 29, 2026 • 12:00 AM

The German U-21 national team fulfilled a dream in Ljubljana on Sunday evening that not even its notoriously optimistic coach Stefan Kuntz believed in a few months ago. But when it came down to it at the European Championship finals in Hungary and Slovenia, the best junior selection of the German Football Association (DFB), which has improved from game to game, as it always has since Stefan Kuntz has been its head coach, captured the hearts of German soccer fans who have not been spoiled by the...

Positive Corona test in the DFB national team

January 29, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Ahead of the World Cup qualifier against Iceland, there is a corona case within the German national soccer team. This was confirmed by the German Football Association (DFB) to several media outlets. According to the DFB, one of the 25 players in the squad is affected. The association did not give the name, and the affected person currently has no symptoms. According to unconfirmed information from the Bild newspaper, it is said to be Gladbach professional Jonas Hofmann. "As things stand, the...

Cinnamon Bells and the Golden Stocking

January 29, 2026 • 12:00 AM

The following is a light-hearted, unprofessional short Christmas story submitted by one of our readers. The challenge was that the Reader's family has tasked him with creating a story revolving around two pivotal keywords: "stocking" and "cinnamon". He had three hours to complete the challenge. In addition, his story had to contain a 2.05m tall, overweight Mexican who was a nuclear phsyicist, an athiest, bow-legged and angry. All the keywords and descriptions picked by his family for the...

Time for Ethical Elegance

January 29, 2026 • 12:00 AM

How does one choose the perfect gift, which also satisfies the usually contraditory desire to shop ethically?  Not an easy queston to answer, especially if you are looking for something special which is both stylish and of high quality.  Recently, a Danish company called Nordgreen is aiming to help make that choice a little little less difficult, and may just have suceeded.  They have teamed up with top designer Jakob Wagner, to create a line of stunningly stylish timepieces for both men...

Adam and Eve - by Masaaki Hasegawa

January 29, 2026 • 12:00 AM

This project aims to improve the social status of LGBT, especially female couples in the world, as many campaigns and publicities are focused on male couples. The objective of this project is to empower female couples around the world and strengthen their social status.
 
The artist, Masaaki, has painted two female models with pride colors and other colors: silver, black, and pink that represent homosexual women and the emotional and intelligent strength that they have. The front of the body is...

Three days awake at Southside

January 29, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Around 60,000 music enthusiasts gathered during the weekend of 21.06.19 - 23.06.19, celebrating their stars, life and themselves for three days. The 21st Southside Festival in Neuhausen ob Eck arrived with a strong line-up. Not only the weather presented itself Janus-faced at this year's Southside Festival. On the festival Friday the visitors still had to struggle with so-so rainy weather but towards the end the sun was shining brightly from the sky. Unfortunately, with the musical material...

Irish man seeks German lady after chance encounter

January 29, 2026 • 12:00 AM

The following story relates to a chance encounter at Dublin Airport on Saturday night, April 27th.  It concerns an Irish man named Wesley and a missed opportunity with an unknown German woman.  Wesley is keen to make contact with this woman and has penned the following plea for information.  In his own words: "My name is Wesley O Brien , 36 from Ireland . I don't live in Dublin but from the West of Ireland. I'm a Photographer but was in Dublin Airport that night because I was travelling to...

Alex Katz Art Exhibition at the Brandhorst Museum

January 29, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Born in 1927, Alex Katz is one of the most accomplished and influential American painters of the past fifty years, and he is still painting. Katz was painting at the same time as for example Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. He speaks about his art: "Cool and Hot", "Cooler than ever", "Something hot done in a cool way". His paintings show an "impersonal public art" that emphazises communication on an "intimate level"1. He likes to visualize the moment. The results are stylized excerpts from...

Artist showcases Europe's largest calligraphy work

January 29, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Video: Masaaki Hasegawa at the Museo Zapadores in Madrid (source: Mask Movement)
As part of his project "Connect People Thru Art Beyond Borders", the artist Masaaki Hasegawa (Tokyo, 1987) has devised the largest calligraphy work in Europe to date. It consists of a 1,926 square meter area in the Museo Zapadores of Madrid that represents a transition process of our world from chaos to coexistence through language. Hasegawa is interested in the abstraction of the concept of letter. Although the...

The Loveliest Lullaby

January 29, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Could there be a song that is universally known to all Christians and many more of other denominations? It is said that the Advent classic, Silent Night, is sung in 52 languages. It was composed 200 years ago this coming Christmas. Here is the story of how it all began. Consider the catastrophe. A performance is expected, everything is set, anticipation runs high and then your organ breaks down on Christmas Eve. A mouse nibbling the bellows was suspected. One might consider some hopeful...

The Meerkats are back in Town

January 29, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Munich Zoo (Tierpark Hellabrunn) proudly presents their new inhabitants - three male and one female meerkat that moved in right next to the giraffes' enclosure.

Coming from a wildlife park in Saxony, the four little predators are busy exploring their new Bavarian environment and scraping around for food.

Despite the fact that the animals originally stem from Africa, the local winter weather does not bother them. They either retreat into the cave system or lie down underneath the heat lamps or on...

Top 10 Sledging Hills for Kids in Munich

January 29, 2026 • 12:00 AM

If you're looking for a sledging opportunity in Munich where you can easily take your kids without much fuss, here are some suggestions:

1. Olympiaberg in Olympic Park
The highest sledging hill in Munich also offers the best panoramic view and a large variety of sledging routes. You can chose from long and flat slopes for the little ones to steep high speed slopes for the more adventurous tobogganist. Additionally there is a snow tubing rack directly at the Olympic Lake.
How to get there: U3 to...

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Christoph Scheuerecker: ,,Ereignis: Erzählung"

Join us at the Kunstraum in der Au for the exhibition titled ,,Ereignis: Erzählung" by Christoph Scheuerecker, focusing on the captivating world of bees. This exhibition invites visitors to explore the intricate relationship between bees and their environment through various artistic expressions,...

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