Bananasprayer on a Lower Rhine tour
Thomas Baumgärtel has been marking cultural sites with his spray banana for 40 years. The Lower Rhine tour revolves around the number 40 Roman XL – in every respect
Monument to the fare dodgers
Cologne erected a monument to the accused – long before politicians began to argue about their impunity
All’s well that ends well! Hedwig Courths-Mahler
A new novel tells the story of Hedwig Courths-Mahler’s life and reminds us what it cost women to want to write
The Ama – Women of the sea
Kimiyo Hayashi has been working as an ama for 56 years. She feels more comfortable in the water than on land. An encounter between diving and seafood
World of Onsen in Yunomine
Yunomine Onsen is a “hot spot” of onsen culture. People have been using the hot water here for bathing, heating – and cooking – for ages
The lucky pearl from Ise-Shima
Pearl picking in Japan: I have to choose one of 30 oysters. But which one? About the invention of the cultured pearl and a very special souvenir
The Cyberstar – A forgotten competition
In 1995, 88 teams from all over the world competed to sketch the television of the future. Some of them hit the mark. What emerged from their visions
Duisburg: On the road in the district
Duisburg has more bridges than Venice, the world’s largest inland harbour and invites you to a steel expedition in the Landschaftspark Nord
German National Library forgets nothing
Leipzig has been collecting the complete memory of the German language since 1913. The Book and Writing Museum recently asked the most uncomfortable question of all: Forget it?
Umeshu Tasting in Tanabe
The first plum liqueur was brought to Edo from Wakayama over 400 years ago. The beginning of a success story
Pilgrimage to Hongu Taisha
Hike in Japan through the Kii mountain forest, past traces of the pilgrims of past centuries to the Hongu Taisha Grand Shrine
Paris is looking for cemetery sponsors
Paris raffles off burial sites. Anyone who restores a forgotten monument can then lie beneath it. Concession à Perpétuité – for all those who draw the right lot.
