Due to the worsening economy, the Axel Springer Verlag, one of Europeâs biggest and wealthiest publishing houses, is canceling major gala events in 2009, possibly including the awarding of its annual Golden Camera television awards, a company spokesperson said Saturday.
Those who watch an above average amount of television hospital dramas are likely to be afraid of hospitals, according to researchers at the German Surgery Society (DGCH) this week.
Germanyâs favourite oldest living cabaret entertainer Johannes Heesters is in trouble again for calling Adolf Hitler a "nice guy" in a TV interview on Dutch television Wednesday night.
The German National Archive announced on Thursday that some 100,000 digitalized historical photos were available for the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia in a dual project that will eventually make about 11 million photos available for public use.
German discount retailer Lidl has started selling camcorders that are digitally linked with daily tabloid <i>Bild</i>, making voyeurism easy for the amateur reporter, daily <i>taz</i> reported on Thursday.
A comparison of East and West German versions of the all-time favourite German childrenâs TV series <i>Sandmännchen</i> has opened this week at Frankfurtâs Museum for Communication.
Ex-Sneaker Pimp Chris Corner loves Berlin. Like many musicians, heâs made the city his home base. Exberliner Magazine's <b>Julie Colthorpe</b> grilled him on the IAMX project, his stage persona â and the Germans.
Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has banned the Lebanese station <i>Al Manar TV</i> from broadcasting in Germany, daily <i>Die Welt</i> reported on Friday.
<b>German newspaper editorials in The Localâs media roundup are heralding Barack Obamaâs convincing election victory as a historic event with global implications.</b>
German public broadcaster ARD has been told it has no basis on which to bring a premature end to its contract with Tour de France organisers to show the race in 2009-2011.
Though the US election will take place thousands of kilometres away and in the middle of the night for those of us living in Germany, there are plenty of ways to tune in to the final showdown between Obama and McCain - both from home and in the company of excited party-goers.
Belgians next week will discover the culinary secrets behind trout in butter sauce, as a television cooking show focuses on Adolf Hitler's "favourite meal" in a controversial programming choice.
The ruckus surrounding German literature critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki's attack on poor television programming has been co-opted by the advertising industry, with ad spoofs by Ryanair and Deutsche Telekom this week, daily <i>Express</i> reported on Tuesday.
<b>Germany has <a href="/money/20081013-14863.html" target="_blank">coughed up âŹ480 billion</a> for a bank rescue package that is grudgingly accepted as a lesser evil than impending global financial chaos by newspaper editorials in The Localâs media roundup.</b>
Itâs no surprise most Germans favour US presidential candidate Barack Obama over his conservative rival John McCain, but as <b>Brittani Sonnenberg</b> reports, some young activists are even teaming up with Americans in Berlin to rally support for the Democrat.
A meat company in Germany that advertised its wares with the image of a naked woman emblazoned across its delivery trucks, and other ads using gratuitous nudity came under fire Wednesday from an industry watchdog.
A television show focusing on the Olympic Games has been reported to the Swedish Broadcasting Commission for allegedly making offensive comments regarding Germany's Nazi history on live television, a Swedish daily reported this week.
The Axel Springer group, the biggest newspaper publisher in Europe, reported a six-fold rise in first-half net profit on Wednesday in a strong second-quarter performance.
Germanyâs best-selling daily newspaper <i>Bild</i> on Friday opened a second front in what could be called the holiday war by attacking Russian tourists for spoiling German vacations in Turkey with âwhores and vodka.â
Barack Obama says he was "played" and "hustled" by German tabloid daily <i>Bild</i> after they published a rather embarrassing unauthorized article the day after his popular speech in Berlin last week.
French police detained a camera team from Germanyâs Deutsche Welle television and 18 rights activists they were filming protesting against the European Unionâs immigration policy.
Germany has banned a Kurdish television station from broadcasting in the country because it promotes the outlawed Kurdistan Workersâ Party (PKK), Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said late on Tuesday.
