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
Germany
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 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?
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The original disappears
The algorithm flags my original photo as an AI fake. Google’s response: ‘Won’t Fix’. Research into a system failure that politics, science and the media can no longer ignore
Germany can’t you see that? A warning call.
A journey through the dramatic years 1929 to 1933, the downfall of the Weimar Republic. Actor Roman Knižka and the Ensemble Opus 45 combine literature and music to warn of the creeping collapse of democratic values
LAGA Neuss: Green heart, old terrain
Sustainable construction and recycling as an architectural statement: a skater pavilion is being built for the Neuss 2026 State Garden Show
Mia Hesse and Hermann Hesse
From the city to the countryside. This trend already existed around 1900 and the ideal of the reform era became a trap for Mia Hesse
Reichenau-Island: Poems and vegetables
Reichenau’s eventful history on fertile ground: from medieval think tank to vegetable garden for southern Germany
How raftsmen invented logistics
Between the babbling brooks and giant fir trees, we found traces of a craft that supplied entire continents – and which few people still know today
