Germany

The range of topics covered by the articles from Germany extends from cultural and culinary backgrounds to practical travel tips.

Palaces wherever you look. There are 12 palaces and many gardens in Sanssouci Park, which together form Potsdam's cultural landscape and are the largest UNESCO World Heritage Site in Germany. Here Babelsberg Palace on the banks of the Havel in neo-Gothic style, built in 1833 / © Photo: Georg Berg

When is a castle a castle?

Old Fritz transformed Potsdam into a royal seat. With twelve palaces and numerous gardens, Potsdam’s cultural landscape is the largest German Unesco World Heritage Site
Filmmuseum Potsdam is the oldest film museum with its own collection and exhibitions in Germany / © Photo: Georg Berg

Potsdam and the German dream factory

Babelsberg is a household name in Hollywood. The German dream factory holds several records in cinema history. The Potsdam Film Museum is also worth a visit
Artist Sevcan Çerkez with Nelin Tunc / © Photo: Georg Berg

Strong women. A gallery for International Women’s Day

On our travels, we often meet women with exciting CVs and unusual professions that require creativity, courage and perseverance
Avatar of the Sorcerer's Apprentice / AI / © Georg Berg

The grim secret of the Tellerrand stories

I woke up from a terrible nightmare. In it, the authentic Tellerrand stories were just hallucinations of an artificial intelligence, and I was the celebrated sorcerer’s apprentice who is even proud of it [Watch the AI-generated video]
Two fishermen with a net full of mirror carp / © Photo: Georg Berg

Carp fishing in the Upper Palatinate

A carp spends three summers in the pond before it is fished out. The time comes every year at the beginning of October. About pond chains, sky ponds, monks and the carp paradox
Blue carp is a traditional Christmas recipe. The blue color is due to the mucus layer of the fish skin, which takes on a pale blue color when cooked / © Photo: Georg Berg

The carp – an underestimated fish

Carp from traditional pond farming is a real delicacy. However, in order to experience the culinary spectrum of carp cuisine, you have to get to the carp.
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Frequent flyer with a message

People Need Love is the first single by the pop band Abba in 1972. It is a simple song with a simple wish for peace and harmony, which unfortunately never became a catchy tune
City view Dresden, in the foreground Brühl Terrace also Brühl Terrace. It extends for about 500 meters along the Elbe between Augustusbrücke and Carolabrücke. The structure is also called the balcony of Europe. The term was coined at the beginning of the 19th century and later used many times in literature / © Photo: Georg Berg

Caspar David Friedrich in Dresden

On the 250th birthday of the famous painter, Dresden and Saxon Switzerland offer a brilliant program. Culture and nature combine in the spirit of Romanticism
Original Dresden Christstollen is a raisin stollen according to the statutes of the Schutzverband Dresdner Christstollen / © Photo: Georg Berg

From show-off Stollen to Stollen etiquette

Dresden Christstollen is considered the oldest Saxon finger food. From October, it will be baked again and shipped to 190 countries. A visit to Saxony’s best-known ambassador of enjoyment
Making-of Stollen baking. Georg Berg photographs master baker Tino Gierig from the Dresden Bakehouse baking an original Dresden Christmas Stollen / © Photo: Angela Berg

Everyone wants stollen!

The original Dresdner Christstollen has an eventful history and is now Saxony’s best-known ambassador of indulgence. The fact that Dresden Christmas Stollen is so popular also has to do with Augustus the Strong
Stele with coat of arms of Eisenhüttenstadt at the entrance to the town. Eisenhüttenstadt is one of the largest area monuments in Germany / © Photo: Georg Berg

Plea for Eisenhüttenstadt

The socialist model city was placed under monument protection 40 years after construction began and is the largest area monument in Germany
Former Cistercian abbey Neuzelle Monastery. Here the Catholic collegiate and monastic church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. From 1650 a false vault was inserted under the Gothic vault and the present Baroque form was created / © Photo: Georg Berg

Neuzelle Monastery. The baroque miracle

Neuzelle Monastery survived raids, fires and entire system changes. The name seems to be the program. An astonishing amount of new things are still being created
Back to the future: The tape recorder model Tesla in the Museum Utopia and Everyday Life for Everyday Culture of the GDR in Eisenhüttenstadt, Brandenburg / © Photo: Georg Berg

A Tesla is a Tesla. Who is Tesla?

Travel educates and museum visits broaden the horizon. Thank you Museum for Utopia and Everyday Life in Eisenhüttenstadt (former GDR) that I now think of so much more than the strange Mr. Musk when I hear the name Tesla!
Stefan Fritsche with freshly stirred beer powder. The product innovation from the Neuzelle monastery brewery rethinks the beer process and impresses with climate-friendly arguments during transport / © Photo: Georg Berg

Beer powder from Brandenburg

Beer powder without brewing process. Klosterbrauerei Neuzelle rethinks beer and impresses with climate-friendly arguments in transport and packaging
Angel with beer crate in front of the Pope. A living statue strides through the Roman Gate in front of Cologne Cathedral with a beer crate, which it will use as a pedestal. In the background Pope Benedict VI waves in survival size from a poster / © Photo: Georg Berg

Cheating during Lent

Not angels, but monks once sent beer to the Pope in Rome. His blessing for a fasting beer was quickly granted, because it tasted so awful after the long journey that he found it worthy of a fasting drink and granted the monks 5 liters per day. Here now more cheating of the clergy against their own fasting laws.
Ceiling painting with soccer scenes during the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Cologne Central Station / © Photo: Georg Berg

Soccer idols on murals

If you love soccer but not the World Cup in Qatar, you might get a lot of enjoyment out of a book by Andy Brassell during your downtime: Football Murals
Sooty kettle on a wood fire / © Photo: Georg Berg

Dead Zone at Charcoal Fire

The campfire has a magical attraction. It is the place where stories are told and experiences are passed on from generation to generation.
We had to wait a long time for this photo. Because the lady on the park bench took forever to take a picture of herself on the pedestal via selfie stick / © Photo: Georg Berg

Everyone is a monument

In Kassel stands the ICH monument. The pedestal made of red sandstone, is an invitation to each and everyone to stand up for a selfie and feel unique.
Altenburg Castle with its prominent tower stands on a mountain cone on the edge of the Steigerwaldhöhe. The castle was the residence of the Bamberg prince bishops from 1305 to 1553 / © Photo: Georg Berg

Monument and city

Cities have a comparatively high density of monuments. If you wanted to understand all the monuments, you would never get anywhere in many cities.
Tangle of licorice roots. Above ground, the licorice is also a shaggy appearance. In the Middle Ages, licorice was very important for Bamberg and was even part of the town's coat of arms / © Photo: Georg Berg

Licorice and licorice

Every child knows licorice. Licorice, on the other hand, is as forgotten as the dial telephone. Once upon a time, licorice was the only natural sweetener in the kitchen besides honey.
Houses in an Indonesian village / © Photo: Georg Berg

Lumbung leitmotif of documenta fifteen

documenta 2022 is based on the values of Indonesian village communities. Photo gallery: What does a Lumbung look like? What shapes life in the island nation?
War - always a theme at documenta. Seating modules in stain camouflage are assembled into a full-size tank twice a week in a performance / © Photo: Georg Berg

The tank Polemos

At documenta 2017, Andreas Angelidakis’ installation was a game. Tanks mutated into seating modules. The return to diplomacy is the greatest wish.
Honey pump by Joseph Beuys, documenta 6 in Kassel 1977 / © Photo: Georg Berg

The documenta in Kassel

In 2022, the 15th documenta will take place in Kassel. The art exhibition has become a place for debates on contemporary art and current sociopolitical contexts.
The Schlenkerla is omnipresent. This is what the people of Bamberg called the brewer Andreas Graser, second in the generation of the current owner family. He flapped his arms conspicuously as he walked and thus got his nickname / © Photo: Georg Berg

Specialty smoked beer

Beer used to have a strong smoky aroma without exception, and not only in Bamberg. Only industrial malt drying banished the smoke from the beer.
Calm, concentrated and everything in view, this is how star chef Thomas Kellermann works with his team in the kitchen / © Photo: Georg Berg

Top chefs and their white brigade

Gourmet cuisine, that much is certain, is highly complex and behind it lies an extremely professional coordination of the white brigade. A real team effort.
Sternebier - real Zoigl from the communal brewer / © Photo: Georg Berg

Zoigl Inn in the Upper Palatinate

The drinkable Zoigl beer is a bottom-fermented, unfiltered traditional beer from the northern Upper Palatinate. Windischeschenbach is considered the center of Zoigl.
The Zoigl star is said to be older than the Star of David. As a sign of the brewers' craft, it indicates where freshly brewed beer is available / © Photo: Georg Berg

Zoigl – Beer tradition in Germany

Reportage offer with many photos: Zoigl beer is traditionally brewed only in a few communities in the Upper Palatinate by private individuals, for their own consumption.
Smoked beer is available all year round. You can even cook with smoked beer. The Schlenkerla brewery offers many dates for this. New at Schlenkerla is a medieval meal based on old recipes and with the aromas of smoked beer / © Photo: Georg Berg

Bamberg – Food from the Middle Ages

Not sinister at all – the dishes of the privileged classes in the Middle Ages were tasty and often brimming with valuable ingredients such as saffron or pepper
Luitpoldbad and Wandelhalle on the Saale in Bad Kissingen / © Photo: Georg Berg

Bad Kissingen is a Unesco World Heritage Site

The great spas of Europe flourished in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Bad Kissingen became famous for its healing waters, drinking cures and bathhouses
Prince Otto von Bismarck bedroom in the original Bismarck apartment in the Museum Obere Saline in Bad Kissingen / © Photo: Georg Berg

Otto von Bismarck in Bad Kissingen

Prince Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of the German Empire from 1871 to 1890, held office in the spa town for a total of 66 weeks.
Multimedia projection at the fountain in the rose garden of Bad Kissingen. Night illumination at the fan fountain in Bad Kissingen, Germany / © Photo: Georg Berg

Culinary Bad Kissingen

Gastronom und Genussmensch Hermann Laudensack führt durch das kulinarischen Bad Kissingen. Typische Restaurants und ein Fleisch-Sommelier werden besucht
Aerial view of Gärtnerstadt Bamberg. The Gardener's City of Bamberg has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1993 / © Photo: Georg Berg

Bamberg, where the Gardener became a World Heritage Site

Deeply rooted: Bamberg families have been cultivating farmland in the middle of the city for centuries. Every Bamberg gardener has his own specialties
Village street of Waldeck in the Upper Palatinate / © Photo: Georg Berg

Waldeck in the Upper Palatinate

Once Waldeck was situated between Franconia and Bohemia on a trade route, which today is a hiking and biking route. A vacation resort with nature experiences for city dwellers
Brew kettle and mash tun at the Bamberg Heller Brewery, where the classic smoked beer is brewed / © Photo: Georg Berg

Bamberg and the beer

As early as 1489, the prince bishop of Bamberg specified the ingredients for beer, which were only laid down 27 years later in the Bavarian purity law
Ripe German olives / © Photo: Georg Berg

Northernmost olive Grove in Europe

Olive harvest in Pulheim near Cologne. Among the harvesters, all friends from the neighborhood, is olive oil expert Carmen Sanchez-Garcia
Zoigl brewing in the Upper Palatinate. The brewers' pointer star (Zoigl) hangs in the listed brewery of Falkenberg / © Photo: Georg Berg

Zoigl beer from the Kommun-Brauhaus Falkenberg

Zoigl from the Upper Palatinate is a beer and is part of Bavaria’s intangible cultural heritage. Report on the brewing process and fermentation in cool rock cellars.
The historic Gasthaus Krone remains in the foreground, while the new building of exposed concrete, steel and glass, designed by architect Osman Askari, who formerly worked for Herzog & de Meuron, remains in the background. This distribution of roles was important to hotel manager Sonja Hechler / © Photo: Georg Berg

Markgräfler Küche im Hotel Krone

Walk through some diets. Chef Peter Prüfer of the Hotel Krone restaurant in Weil offers vegan cuisine and puts a new spin on the traditional
Hotel Mühle in Binzen / © Photo: Georg Berg

Hotel Mühle brings Apulian cuisine to Binzen

In Binzen in the Markgräflerland region, a traditional house is currently reinventing itself. Host Fabio Elia brings his grandmother’s Apulian cuisine to the table
At Caspar Plautz, creativity unfolds in the smallest of spaces. Agria potatoes are cooking in the oven, while Dominik Klier prepares the orders. As a side dish, a raw vegetable salad with organic vegetables from the neighboring stand Trübenecker / © Photo: Georg Berg

Caspar Plautz at the Viktualienmarkt

The hippest potato snack in Munich can be found at the Viktualienmarkt. Various potato dishes come to the bar table on a tin plate
Potato decorative on the fork / © Photo: Georg Berg

Potato – World food star

Potato scene at a farmer in Upper Bavaria, at the big potato party and at the trendsetters of Caspar Plautz at the Munich Viktualienmarkt.
Façade decoration of the Hechler family at the Hotel Krone in Weil am Rhein / © Photo: Georg Berg

Hotel Krone in Weil am Rhein

A harmonious triad of culture, design and wine in the boutique hotel between Vitra Campus and Fondation Beyeler. Star architects and designers meet here
Oak avenue in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania / © Photo: Georg Berg

Luxury and tranquility in the Cavalier House

Neither car noise nor light pollution, at most the chirping of birds in the morning. In the Kavaliershaus, silence and supposed solitude become a luxury good
Pfaffentäuscher is the name of the dish whose decorated plate is the object of food photography / © Photo: Georg Berg

Su Vössing – Creation of a cookbook

The production has surprised us to some extent. The dishes come unadulterated from the kitchen of the star chef and are served still warm in the photo studio
Five varieties of Black Forest miso / © Photo: Georg Berg

Miso from the Black Forest

As a spice paste, miso is the energy drink of the Japanese and the source of flavor. Peter Koch produces for German consumers what he learned in Japan
Julius-Echter-Berg, the most famous site of the Hans Wirsching winery / © Photo: Georg Berg

Winery Hans Wirsching in Franconia

The Hans Wirsching winery is one of the best-known private wineries in Franconia. The most important vines in Iphofen are Silvaner, Trollinger and Scheurebe
The secret to tender beef brisket is the reverse order: first heat it in the oven at low heat and then grill it hot in its own smoke just before cutting / © Photo: Georg Berg

Star chef Marco Müller in St. Peter-Ording

After much fresh North Sea air at the beach the menu, which prepared the citizens of Berlin 3-star cook Marco Mueller in the Ambassador hotel, promises highest benefit
Jörg Geiger, Revolution in a Champagne Glass / © Photo: Georg Berg

Jörg Geiger and the revolution in the champagne glass

There is a need for non-alcoholic alternatives to wine and sparkling wine. There is no sensible reason for offering guests only an apple spritzer
The green hilly landscape of the Upper Palatinate and in the middle of it in the morning mist lies Wernberg Castle / © Photo: Georg Berg

The Upper Palatinate and its Zoigl culture

Well, curiosity, the Zoigl calendar and chance lead us to the old vicarage in Altenstadt an der Waldnaab to Anni and Rudi Loistl. There we learn a lot about the … [mehr]
Parthenon of Books, by Argentine artist Marta Minujin at documenta 14 in Kassel. Every day the construction, which in its dimensions is a replica of the temple on the Acropolis, became more massive and filled with more books. In the background, the installation "Expiration Movement" smokes in the Zwehrenturm / © Photo: Georg Berg

View to Kassel for documenta14

Every five years, Kassel is dedicated to contemporary art. Installations, performances and lectures take place at a wide variety of venues
The center of attraction in the evening: the Pudelbar. At least as noteworthy as the poodle is the bar's cladding. It consists of the rusted sheet metal of an old barn, which Rainer Holzhauer discovered on horseback during a ride / © Photo: Georg Berg

Renthof in Kassel – history and zeitgeist

In June 2017, the Renthof Kassel opens as a hotel, restaurant and event location. Throughout the house there are finds that have appeared during renovation
Lengeboom / © Photo: Georg Berg

The village trutz

On February 27, 2016, the former villagers of Borschemich gathered to cut down the old village linden tree. The last landmark of the village, whose inhabitants had to make way for opencast lignite mining against their will, thus disappears

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Interview von WDR-Reporterin Susanne Schnabel mit Angela Berg als Food-Expertin zum Thema Rapsöl in der Küche. WDR 5 Quarks 9.7.2021
Ein Radiobeitrag mit Olivensaft-Sommeliere Carmen Sanchez Garcia und Angela Berg zum Thema Olivenöl. Wie man ein Olivenöl von Spitzenqualtiät erkennt und wie man es in der Küche verwenden sollte. Ein genussbetonter und unterhaltsamer Beitrag von Journalistin Susanne Schnabel. WDR 3 Kultur Am Mittag vom 15.12.2020
Interview von WDR-Reporterin Susanne Schnabel mit Angela Berg als Food-Expertin zum Thema Bitter. WDR 5 Quarks vom 01.09.2020
Interview von WDR-Reporterin Susanne Schnabel mit Angela Berg als Food-Expertin zum Thema Salz. WDR 5 Quarks vom 21.7.2020
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