Max Schreck, the German actor who set the standard for movie vampires everywhere with his legendary portrayal of Nosferatu, has been honoured with a new gravestone commemorating his place in cinematic history.
A German development worker was killed by insurgents in northern Afghanistan on Friday night. Development Minister Dirk Niebel described the killing as a "cowardly attack," while Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed her shock.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday for the first time that German troops were fighting a war in Afghanistan, as she addressed them on a surprise visit to the country.
An investigation of crematorium employees in Hamburg accused of harvesting gold teeth and jewellery from customer corpses has uncovered a sensitive topic that the majority of German morticians refuse to address publicly, a funeral industry newspaper reported on Friday.
Hamburg’s famous Ohlsdorf cemetery, final resting place of many prominent Germans, has begun a grave site sponsorship programme that promises abandoned sites at a cut-rate price in exchange for care and restoration by their future burial subjects, a media report said on Monday.
A policeman was killed on Monday night when his patrol car collided with a tram in Karlsruhe – the latest in string of serious streetcar accidents in the southwestern German city.
Germany is investigating claims a 14-year-girl was killed during a firefight between its <i>Bundeswehr</i> soldiers and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
Discount supermarkets and economy airlines have long done a roaring trade in Germany, but an increasing number of Germans are taking their thriftiness to the grave. The Local’s <b>Kristen Allen</b> reports on the trend toward bargain burials and anonymous funerals.
Austrian officials are struggling to find a final resting place for a dead German man whom no one wants. The man’s relatives refuse to claim the “lonely corpse” because he left a mountain of debt behind when he died six weeks ago.
The first wave of swine flu, which has killed at least 59 people in Germany, appears to be subsiding, doctors told news magazine <i>Der Spiegel</i> in a report published Saturday.
Golf, art, punk and Francophile-themed gravesites were introduced on Tuesday in Essen as part of a new image campaign called “Long Live the Graveyard!” by the German association of cemetery gardeners (BdF).
<b>Gunther von Hagens, the man behind the controversial anatomical Body Worlds exhibitions, has once again sparked outrage – this time by showing dissected corpses having sex. The Netzeitung’s Kerstin Rottmann looks at his lastest well-calculated provocation in Berlin.</b>
