There is heated discussion in Germany around the stance taken by the new culture minister Wolfram Weimer, who has banned his employees in the Federal Chancellery (the government agency where the country's federal government is based) from using plura...
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Two panels from a polyptych that were thought to have been lost for more than two centuries have been found and now join the complex of which they were part. It happens in Germany, in Lübeck, where the St. Annen Museum unveiled on July 31 the two pa...
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On Tuesday, July 29, 2025, the regional court in Ingolstadt, Germany, handed down the verdict in the trial over the theft of the Manching Celtic treasure, which was stolen from the Manching town's Roman-Celtic museum, the Kelten- & Römermuse...
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On the occasion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich (Greifswald, 1774 - Dresden, 1840), Germany is celebrating the most famous painter of GermanRomanticism with more than 160 events and major exhibitions...
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The city of Bayreuth, in northern Bavaria, is known to be the city of Richard Wagner, not because he was born there (he was in fact born in Leipzig), but because the famous composer spent the last ten years of his life here and because he elected it ...
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Interestingly, the only two Unesco World Heritage sites in Saxony, an eastern German federated state, share a common feature: each Unesco site is in fact shared with another country. In fact, Muskau Park is located partly in Germany and partly in Pol...
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Ranking third in number of UNESCO sites after Italy and China, Germany has as many as fifty-one sites inscribed on the World Heritage List, forty-eight of them cultural and three natural. The first to enter the prestigious List was Aachen Cathedral w...
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