Germany is the land of Dichter und Denker —poets and philosophers. German humanities have had an enormous influence on the world and German research has produced innumerable advances in the natural sciences.
It’S Your Schloss. Churches and castles around Germany manifest stunning Romanesque, Gothic, and Baroque styles. The Romanesque period, spanning the years 800 to 1300, arose from direct imitation of ...more
The Renaissance. German art first broke its Gothic fetters with Renaissance painters like Matthias Grünewald and Hans Holbein the Younger, who gave depth and realism to secular subjects. Their prolific ...more
Medieval And Renaissance Writing. German literary history begins around 800 AD with Das Hildebrandslied (The Lay of Hildebrand), an epic poem describing the fatal struggle between the heroic Hildebrand ...more
A German Delicacy. German philosophy is like wurst: thick and difficult to digest. Immanuel Kant, the foremost thinker of the German Enlightenment, argued for autonomous rational calculation, positing ...more
German contributions to music have always been marked by three characteristic tendencies: striking creativity, thorough exploration, and a penchant for theory and explanation. First Notes. Charlemagne ...more
New Art. The newborn medium of film exploded onto the German art scene in the Weimar era thanks to a number of brilliant directors. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) is an ...more
British dailies, such as the Times and Guardian, are widely available at newsstands in most cities. The International Herald Tribune and the European edition of the Wall Street Journal are the most common ...more
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