Heidi Klum has thrown one of her most promising candidates off the current series of Germany’s Next Top Model for showing her the finger in front of the cameras.
A handful of German celebrities will hurtle down an Olympic bobsled track in modified Chinese woks at the seventh annual Wok World Championship in Germany on Saturday, organisers said.
<b>Introducing…is The Local's guide to the fabulous world of German celebrity. Know all there is about Germany’s top model Heidi Klum? We shine the spotlight on a Rhineland beauty who’s become a one-woman glamour franchise.</b>
An article poking fun at the lengthy name of new Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg turned out to be a joke on some of the biggest names in the German media after it was revealed they had been tricked by a Wikipedia prankster.
<b>In the latest dispatch of <b>Portnoy’s Stammtisch</b>, The Local’s column about life in Germany, Portnoy laments missed opportunities in Teutonic broadcasting on the 25th anniversary of private TV.</b>
<i>Bernd das Brot</i> – a talking loaf of bread from a children’s TV show – has been freed after spending 11 days held captive by leftist squatters, Erfurt police reported late on Sunday.
An Islamist terrorist video that turned up on the internet this week is a sign of intensifying threats against Germany, the Interior Ministry confirmed on Wednesday.
The next issue of the controversial publication <i>Zeitungszeugen</i>, which reproduces original Nazi-era newspapers with historical commentary, will hit newsstands in Germany this week despite the state of Bavaria’s choice to take legal action, publisher Peter McGee told The Local on Tuesday.
The German Jewish Council has said it supports the state of Bavaria’s choice to take legal action against <i>Zeitungszeugen</i>, a publication which reproduces original newspapers from the Third Reich.
Leftist squatters have kidnapped Bernd das Brot – a talking loaf of bread from a children’s TV show – to protest their eviction from an occupied building in the eastern German city of Erfurt.
<b>Introducing…is The Local's guide to the fabulous world of b-list German celebrity. With the new season of Germany’s version of Pop Idol starting on Wednesday night, there’s no better Teutonic star to feature first than music producer Dieter Bohlen.</b>
<b>Germany kicked off what’s being billed as “super election year” on Sunday, but German newspapers in The Local’s media roundup aren’t quite sure what to make of the second state poll in Hesse within 12 months.</b>
The tables turned for German pop icon Dieter Bohlen on Monday when he testified before a Lübeck court over a series of robberies that included his home, where thieves grabbed some €150,000 in goodies five years ago.
A German ambassador has been censured by the Sri Lankan government for holding a eulogy for a murdered newspaper editor critical of the island’s government, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Wednesday.
Petrol station chain Esso and coffee company Tchibo have stopped an advertising campaign after finding out the slogan also hung above the entrance to a Nazi concentration camp, daily <i>Frankfurter Rundschau</i> reported on Wednesday.
British-owned Mecom, publisher of dailies <i>Berliner Zeitung</i> and <i>Hamburger Morgenpost</i>, has sold its German holdings to Cologne-based media group M. DuMont Schauberg just three years after entering the market, the company confirmed on Tuesday in London.
<b>Berlin's multimedia arts festival Transmediale turns 10 this month. Co-founder of its club component Oliver Baurhenn celebrates a decade of unique club culture and Exberliner Magazine grilled him on how it all began, how tourists are changing Berlin nightlife and why the independent music scene must evolve to survive.</b>
Nearly seventy years after the start of the Second World War, a new British editorial project has begun republishing Nazi-era newspaper clippings accompanied by historic analysis.
The German pay-TV channel Premiere will proceed with a capital increase of €450 million ($630 million) to obtain credits essential for its survival, the group said on Tuesday.
German actor Horst Tappert, who played Inspector Derrick in a long-running television police series shown in more than 100 countries, has died at age 85, celebrity magazine <i>Bunte</i> reported Monday.
British acting heavyweights Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Naomi Watts will headline the next Berlin Film Festival with a clutch of new pictures, organisers said Friday.
The head of the district authority in Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Brandenburg, has been suspended because of child pornography files found on his computer, daily <i>Märkische Allgemeine</i> reported on Friday.
Just another example of the Teutonic affinity to bureaucracy: The enforcers of Germany's hated GEZ broadcast licence asked a Bochum family cat to pay for its own TV and radio, daily <i>WAZ</i> reported on Friday.
A year after his retirement from goalkeeping at Bayern Munich, one of Germany’s best-loved footballers Oliver Kahn will begin a television career in China, according to daily newspaper <i>Bild</i> this week.
