Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Germany'
The Implications of Embryo Screening
by Kerstin Kullmann, Der Spiegel, Germany - A controversial procedure that lets would-be parents test embryos for certain genetic defects will soon be allowed in special cases in Germany. What does this mean for society?...
German Schools Struggle with Wave of Immigrants
by Katja Irle, Der Spiegel, Germany - Germany is experiencing a well-documented boom in immigrants from countries hard-hit by the euro crisis. Less visible, however, are their children. They rarely have any knowledge of German, and schools are struggling to...
It's Time to Remove Racism from Children's Books
by Dialika Neufeld, Der Spiegel, Germany - There are also children for whom constantly being labeled a "nigger" is more painful than it was for me in my own childhood. That alone is enough reason why publishers should revise their...
Woodland Heists: Rising Energy Costs Drive Up Forest Thievery
by Renuka Rayasam, Der Spiegel, Germany - With energy costs escalating, more Germans are turning to wood burning stoves for heat. That, though, has also led to a rise in tree theft in the country's forests. Woodsmen have become more...
Vivid Cinematic Essay Examines Hannah Arendt
by Elke Schmitter, Der Spiegel, Germany - Her theory of the "banality of evil" made Hannah Arendt both famous and controversial. Now German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta has given the philosopher an outstanding cinematic portrait....
New Fears, Same Desires: Refugees Then and Now
by Jessica Ware, The Local, Germany - A Berlin refugee camp built for exiles from East Germany has opened an exhibition on the lives of today's residents who fled other countries....
Patients Misused as Guinea Pigs in East Germany
by Nicola Kuhrt, Der Spiegel, Germany - Prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany sold patients as unwitting guinea pigs in drug trials conducted on behalf of Western pharmaceutical companies, according to a TV documentary....
Eco-Friendly Biofuel Fails to Set German Hearts Alight
by Abby D'Arcy Hughes & Anne Maillet, France 24, France - It's two years since the biofuel E10 arrived at German petrol stations, but it's failed to win over the population. Increasing food prices, for one, have fanned the flames...
A New Wave of Stores Keep German Villages Alive
by Renuka Rayasam, Der Spiegel, Germany - German villages are slowly dwindling and residents are suffering as they lose places to meet and shop within walking distance of their homes. Now concerned villagers are trying to stabilize bleeding populations by...
Walmart? Nein, Danke!
by Padma Rao Sundarji, Outlook India, India - Walmart in India. Will it create jobs and benefit farmers? Provide consumers a one-stop convenience? Instal cold storages to eliminate the current losses of roughly 40 per cent of rotting agricultural produce?...
Next Stop Sell-Out City
by Nicole Vrenegor, Eurozine, Austria - Is it chance or social class that determines where one gets on and off the bus? How are the stops really connected? How does civic space create social structure, and how does social structure...
Germany: Living to Responsibility
by Yekaterina Kudashkina, Voice of Russia, Russia - The eurozone took a great sigh of relief Wednesday as the German Constitutional Court ruled that the German President Joachim Gauck could sign the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and fiscal pact into...
Golf Tournament Raises Money for Anti-Nazi Projects
by Rachel Stern, Der Spiegel, Germany - Germany's eastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has a longstanding reputation as a hotbed of xenophobic activity. Recently, a number of projects have sought to burnish the region's tarnished reputation. The latest is a...
Refugees Outnumber Locals in German Village
by Anna Kistner, Der Spiegel, Germany - The tiny southern German village of Schöllnstein is a microcosm of what happens when two worlds collide. Outnumbered by an influx of asylum seekers, locals are struggling to cope. And although the foreigners...
Muslims and Jews Outraged by Circumcision Ruling
by Barbara Hans, Der Spiegel, Germany - Leaders of Germany's Jewish and Muslim communities have criticized a court ruling they fear could make circumcision a punishable offense in the country. Only 10 percent of German boys are circumcised, but the...
Garbage Crew Gains Exposure with 'Trashcam'
by Verena Töpper, Der Spiegel, Germany - Who says garbage collectors can't be creative? Sanitation workers in Hamburg created a sensation with their striking photographs taken with a dumpster converted into a pinhole camera. Now the campaign has won a...
Greece and Germany Take Their Fight Outside
by Miriam Widman, Der Spiegel, Germany - For months, Germans have been complaining of Greek profligacy while Greeks have been griping about German bullying. Now, the two countries will have it out on the football pitch. The symbolism of Friday...
A Laboratory for the Advancement of Women
by Anna Reimann, Der Spiegel, Germany - The heated political debate continues in Germany over whether or not the country needs a gender quota at the highest levels of the private sector. Norway introduced such measures years ago -- and...
How Right-Wing Extremists and Islamists Are the Same
by Barbara Hans and Julia Jüttner, Der Spiegel, Germany - Last weekend, Salafist Muslims and anti-Islam right-wingers faced off in Bonn, and 29 police officers were injured as a result. The two groups appear to be diametrically opposed, but a...
Work in Germany – a Nightmare for Bulgarians
by Katharina Iskandar, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany - With the promise of jobs and income, more and more Bulgarians are being lured to Germany. There, however, they run into race-to-the-bottom wages and illegal accommodation. Frankfurt has become the centre of...
Anonymous Applications Help Immigrants and Women
by Renuka Rayasam, Der Spiegel, Germany - Job seekers in Germany still list their birthday, gender and family status, even attaching a picture to their applications. But newly released results of a project to make German job applications anonymous show...
Immigrants Flee Families to Find Themselves
by Antje Windmann, Der Spiegel, Germany - Hundreds of young female immigrants are hiding from their families in Germany after fleeing oppression, physical violence and even death threats. Charities and social workers help the women get new identities and build...
Women Excluded from Germany's Opinion Pages
by Barbara Hans, Der Spiegel, Germany - German newspapers are full of clever commentaries, artful rhetoric and ideas. But an evaluation of national papers shows that editorials are almost always written by men. As the business gender quota debate rages...
German Village Becomes Model for Renewable Energy
by Renuka Rayasam, Der Spiegel, Germany - The tiny village of Feldheim, some 60 kilometers southwest of Berlin, was catapulted by chance to the forefront of the renewable energy movement. Now visitors from around the world are flocking to this...
Try the Greek Yoke on, Herr Hansen
by Marie Amrhein, Cicero, Germany - What would the life of an average German official be like if the Federal Republic were forced to follow the same draconian austerity measures it is currently imposing on Greece?...
Film Explores World of Female Neo-Nazis
by Kristen Allen, Der Spiegel, Germany - An award-winning new German film takes an unexpected look at the problem of far-right extremism, following the fictional story of a young woman lost in a world of violence and hatred. The film,...
Hidden Lives: Afghan Girls in Germany
by Nushin Arbabzadah, PBS, USA - It seemed to me that honor killings were a method of male-on-male peer pressure -- women served as tools by which to control a man's standing and reputation....
From Prussia with Love
by Jane Paulick, Deutsche Welle, Germany - Berlin's long-buried imperial past has come back into fashion....
Neo-Nazis – Just Another Ossi Story?
by Jana Hensel, Der Freitag, Germany - I can’t not shake the feeling that little more than a very thin line in my CV separates me from the three violent neo-Nazis. They’re about my age. And life in eastern Germany...
In Germany, Neo-Nazi Murders Surface a Contradiction
by Heather Horn, The Atlantic, USA - Germans are widely hostile to far-right groups, but opposition to multi-culturalism is on the rise -- and getting violent....
Study Finds Thousands of Forced Marriages in Germany
by Sabine Ripperger, Deutsche Welle, Germany - Those who are threatened with forced marriage risk being isolated from their own family if they try to resist. The real number of people who are intimidated into marriage is much higher but...
'Guest Workers' Relive Their Journey to Germany
by Yasemin Ergin, Der Spiegel, Germany - Some 50 years after Germany and Turkey signed a labor agreement, a group of 35 so-called Turkish 'guest workers' embarked on an anniversary train trip to relive their original journey. Following her father's...
No Gender, No Problem?
by Merlind Theile, Der Spiegel, Germany - Berlin's upstart Pirate Party, which sprang to prominence in September, is made up largely of men. Given the party's computer-nerd origins, that may come as no surprise. But critics are unconvinced by its...
Why Are Israelis Moving to Germany?
by Adi Hagin, Haaretz, Israel - Thousands of Israelis, among them many artists, have chosen to live in Berlin because of its relaxed atmosphere and relatively low cost of living, even if it means living in a country with a...
'Ready for Change': Pirate Party Is the Real Winner in Berlin State Election
by Silvia Engels, Deutsche Welle, Germany - Just a few weeks ago, election observers would have hardly thought the Pirate Party, which stands for free wireless Internet service for all, unlimited access to public transportation funded by taxes and better...
When Sexual Liberation Arrived By Mail
by Katja Iken, Der Spiegel, Germany - In the 1950s, Germany was a place where many women were terrified of getting pregnant and kept woefully ignorant about sexual matters. One dauntless woman changed that almost single-handedly. The empire of Beate...
End of Conscription Causes Headache for Charities
by Catherine Cheney, Der Spiegel, Germany - When Germany eliminated conscription this year, an extensive civil service program for conscientious objectors also came to an end. A new program launched to replace it, however, has not found enough volunteers. Now,...
Berlin's Drive to Recruit Foreign Workers Proves Unpopular
by Jutta Wasserrab, Deutsche Welle, Germany - The economic crisis has cost many skilled workers in nations like Greece or Spain their jobs. Some of them now want to try their luck in Germany. That makes labor experts happy, but...
German-Jewish Literary Culture Returns from Exile
by Helen Whittle, Der Spiegel, Germany - German Jews who fled Nazi persecution to what is now Israel took as many books as they could carry. But their descendants, many of whom don't speak German, are left with cratefuls of...
All Eyes on Energy Companies, as Nuclear Moratorium Ends
by Joanna Impey, Deutsche Welle, Germany - The moratorium on nuclear power announced by Chancellor Angela Merkel ended on Wednesday. Eight of the country's nuclear power plants were turned off in mid-March. Now it looks like the closure will be...
Renewable Energy Hits a Roadblock with Ugly Power Lines
by Svenja Pelzel, Deutsche Welle, Germany - With the German government's phaseout of nuclear energy, renewable sources like wind power are expected to fill the void. But new power lines are desperately needed to keep up with demand, and no...
Germany and Austria Open their Doors – At Last
by Michaela Terenzani-Stanková, The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia - Reactions in Austria and Germany to the new freedoms have been mixed: some worry that workers from the east will flood their labour markets; while others rejoice, saying that Austria and Germany...
World from Berlin: "Obama's 'Retaliatory Justice'"
by Kristen Allen, Der Spiegel, Germany - While relief that Osama bin Laden has finally been eliminated is widespread, many in Europe and Germany are concerned about the implications of the targeted killing. German commentators on Wednesday say celebrating the...
Smuggling Workers to the German Promised Land
by Özlem Gezer, Der Spiegel, Germany - Modern human traffickers are supplying the German market with workers from Bulgaria, who can expect to earn three euros an hour and sleep in a basement. A journey with day laborers who see...
US and Germany Offer 'Feeble Opposition' to Bahrain Crackdown
by Mary Beth Warner, Spiegel, Germany - A government-led crackdown in Bahrain led to three protester deaths on Wednesday. Though the situation appeared calmer on Thursday, German editorialists criticize Saudi Arabia's decision to send troops in to help suppress the...
German Government Discovers the Risks of Nuclear Power
by Nina Werkhäuser, Deutsche Welle, Germany - The Japanese nuclear crisis has spread to Germany where the government has declared a moratorium on extending the lifespans of nuclear power plants. Deutsche Welle's Nina Werkhäuser says the reason is all too...
Refugee Families in Germany Face Isolation and Hopelessness
by Kathrin Erdmann, Deutsche Welle, Germany - Refugees arriving in Germany face an uncomfortable time. Housing policy often concentrates them in isolated neighborhoods like Billstieg in Hamburg, which are plagued by high crime, unemployment and despair....
Germany's New Generation of Female Political Leaders
by Siobhán Dowling, Spiegel, Germany - As well as a woman chancellor, Germany will soon have a third female state governor, and two other women are also in the running for regional power this year. Is the country shedding its...
Veiled Debate Arrives in Germany
by Anna Reimann, Spiegel, Germany - Germany has generally steered clear of the issue of what Muslim women can wear in public. But that might now change. The announcement by a city employee in Frankfurt that she will begin wearing...
European Poll: An Islamic Threat?
by Nabila Ramdani, Al Jazeera, Qatar - A new poll conducted in France and Germany indicates that a notable portion of participants consider Islam a "threat"....
Advent Tourism Booming in Germany
by Cathrin Schaer, Spiegel, Germany - Germany's Christmas markets are famous throughout the world, and every December thousands of visitors head to towns where traditional baubles and decorations are made. But the old-fashioned image of Advent tourism may be about...
Putting a Face to the Numbers
by Constanza Vieira, IPS, Italy - "First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I...
Zurich Ponders Use of 'Sex Boxes' to Control Prostitution
by Marta Falconi, Swisster, Switzerland - After encouraging results in Germany, Zurich city officials are considering the installation of "sex boxes", fenced parking areas, where prostitutes and their clients can conduct business away from the public eye. In a city...
Germans Deport Afghans to Prevent Refugee Flood
by Conny Neumann, Spiegel, Germany - Europe is currently threatened with a wave of refugees from Afghanistan. After years of tolerating refugees who have not been granted political asylum, German authorities have started deporting Afghan nationals in an effort to...
MSF Wants EU's 'Hands off' Life-Saving Generic Drugs
by Ranjitha Balasubramanyam, Deutsche Welle, Germany - As the European Union and India try to reach a free-trade agreement, the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders is concerned. It's afraid the deal could limit access to affordable generic drugs it relies...
The New Berliners
by Julia Lipkins, The Local, Germany - 20 years after reunification, the German capital has become an increasingly attractive destination for foreigners hoping to start a new life....
Coping with Job Rejections as a Foreigner
by Monika Dittrich, Deutsche Welle, Germany - German companies and ministries are testing new ways of screening job applications to prevent immigrants and other minorities from being discriminated against....
Elisabeth Badinter: 'Women Aren't Chimpanzees'
by Britta Sandberg,Spiegel, Germany - French philosopher Elisabeth Badinter cut her teeth in the women's liberation movement of the 1970s. In a SPIEGEL interview, she discusses her worries about how a new back-to-nature movement is persuading many Western women to...
HIV Hysteria
by Gisela Friedrichsen, Spiegel, Germany - The trial of German pop star Nadja Benaissa, who is accused of infecting a sexual partner with HIV, is the culmination of a witch hunt against the singer. The case revolves around the question...
Gender Quotas for German Business?
by Jessica Donath, Spiegel Online, Germany - Germany's Justice Minister has called on companies to increase the number of women in top positions. On Wednesday, however, the 16 states' justice ministers proposed going further. They want to impose specific quotas...
Berlin's Last Squat
by Candice Novak, Deutsche Welle, Germany - In former squat-heaven Berlin, the last one closes after a dramatic battle. The city's urban make-up is changing, and now a legal alternative to squatting is gaining ground in a city with lots...
The Last Russian-Germans Prepare to Leave a Berlin Refugee Center
by Oxana Evdokimova, Deutsche Welle, Germany - The Marienfelde Refugee Center has been the first stop in a new life for many East German and Russian-German families. As it prepares for closure, its last inmates begin their new lives in...
Germany To Scale Back Mandatory Civilian Service
by Candice Novak, Spiegel, Germany - The move will mean deep cuts to the civilian service required of conscientious objectors that, over the years, has become a vital part of the German social safety net....
Are Berlin's Muslims a Model for Integration?
by Siobhán Dowling, Spiegel, Germany - Far from living in closed-off communities, Muslims in Berlin's Kreuzberg district live in a culturally diverse area. However, a new report finds that they still suffer from high levels of discrimination, particularly within the...
Green Roofs Take Earth-Friendly Urban Living to New Heights
by Laura Schweiger, Deutsche Welle, Germany - Buildings in the German city of Dusseldorf prove the sky is the limit when it comes to enriching the urban environment. Trading tiles for vegetation, green roofs promise both environmental and economic benefits....
German Publishers Asked to Open a New Chapter on World Forest Day
by Kate Hairsine, Deutsche Welle, Germany - A recent WWF study found many books printed for the German market contained paper sourced from rainforests in Asia. Publishers who are trying to do the right thing are finding it more difficult...
New Study Looks at Challenges Faced by Germany's Muslims
by Sheila Lalwani, Spiegel, Germany - It's no secret that many immigrants have a hard time in Germany. A new study has found that women wearing headscarves have a particularly hard time on the job market and a quarter of...
Green Swedish Fashion Takes Berlin
by Anna Maria Bernitz, The Local, Sweden - Recognised as a country of nature lovers and cutting-edge design, it is not surprising that Sweden has fostered a strong new generation of fashion designers who combine fashion and sustainability....
Can CO2 Catchers Combat Climate Change?
by Samiha Shafy, Spiegel, Germany - While nations bicker about who should cut greenhouse gas emissions and by how much, scientists are dreaming up their own solutions to global warming. A German professor has created a filter which extracts more...
A Muslim's Christmas in Germany
by Louise Dunne, Radio Netherlands, Netherlands - Christmas may be a Christian holiday, but not all of those who celebrate it are church going believers. For many it’s as much about family get-togethers, presents and blowout dinners as the birth...
How Much Is a Human Life Worth?
by Susanne Koelbl, Spiegel, Germany - The German-ordered bombing in Kunduz left behind dozens of widows and orphans. Now, survivors and relatives of the dead are looking for compensation. Some, though, worry that the money will fall into the hands...
People Power Brought Down the Berlin Wall
by Sarah van Gelder, Yes!, USA - Some say it was Ronald Reagan's toughness that forced down the wall. But detente between East and West and grassroots people's movements deserve the credit....
Europe's Quiet Leader
by Anne Applebaum, The Washington Post, USA - Did you know that there were elections in Germany a month ago? Were you aware that the German Socialists were soundly defeated?...
The Difficult Identities of Post-War Black Children of GIs
by Stephanie Siek, Spiegel, Germany - For many of the now-adult children of white German women and African-American GIs, adopted by families in the United States after World War II, the search for the truth has been difficult. Online communities...
Germany Waking up to Growing Market for Muslim Food
by Daniela Schröder, Spiegel, Germany - Germany has four million Muslim inhabitants but the market for halal food -- produced according to Islamic law -- is still in its infancy, partly because firms fear the wrath of animal rights groups....
Tehran Women's Museum
by Dorothea Marcus, Deutsche Welle, Germany - Iran's Women's Museum has had a rocky ride since its conception last year. Its story of persecution and financial hardship proves that there is still a long way to go until men and...
Bloodbath in Court
by Doaa El-Bey, Al Ahram, Egypt - The murder of Marwa El-Sherbini underlines the urgent need to combat European racism....
Majority of Eastern Germans Feel Life Better under Communism
by Julia Bonstein, Spiegel, Germany - Glorification of the German Democratic Republic is on the rise two decades after the Berlin Wall fell. Young people and the better off are among those rebuffing criticism of East Germany as an "illegitimate...
Could Twitter Influence the German Election?
by Petra Bornhöft, Spiegel, Germany - Ever since the German presidential election result was posted on Twitter before being announced officially there has been growing concern that the September election could be influenced by leaked exit polls. Politicians and opinion...
Germany Takes Lead in Saving Ecuador's Rainforest
by Jess Smee, Spiegel, Germany - Oil companies are salivating over the supply of black gold beneath Ecuador's rainforest. The South American country is pledging to keep the oil in the ground -- if the international community provides compensation. Now...
Jehovah's Witnesses Winning Battle for Church Status in Germany
by Matthias Bartsch, Andrea Brandt and Simone Kaiser, Spiegel, Germany - Several German states are trying to prevent the Jehovah's Witnesses from gaining the same offical status as the main church faiths. But they're unlikely to succeed after the group,...
Berlin's Poverty Protects It from Downturn
by Sally McGrane, Der Spiegel, Germany - Recession? What recession? From Berlin, it's been hard to tell that there is a global economic downturn. A lack of industry and years of high unemployment mean that Germany's capital can't sink much...
Pope Benedict 'Is Sabotaging Christian-Jewish Dialogue'
by Siobhán Dowling, Der Spiegel, Germany - The Vatican's decison to lift the excommunication of a bishop who denies that the Holocaust took place has angered Jews across the world. German papers on Monday argue that the pope is ruining...
Luxemburg Still Popular 90 Years after Assassination
by Siobhán Dowling, Der Spiegel, Germany - Rosa Luxemburg helped found the German Communist Party and was brutally murdered 90 years ago for her efforts. Today, she continues to provide inspiration to lefties and feminists the world over. But do...
US Soldier Seeks Political Asylum in Germany
by Cordula Meyer and Simone Kaiser, Spiegel, Germany - André Shepherd is the first American GI to have applied for political asylum in Germany. Shepherd, who deserted to avoid going back to fight in Iraq, argues that the war there...
'The Cow Is a Climate Bomb'
by Michaela Schiessl and Christian Schwägerl, Der Spiegel, Germany - Whether cattle are reared organically or with conventional farming methods, the end effect is bad for the environment, according to a new German consumer report. The agricultural lobby, however, is...
A Test of Tolerance: Doors Open at Eastern Germany's First Mosque
by Ferda Ataman and Katharina Peters, Der Spiegel, Germany - After two years of construction and recurrent protest from locals, Eastern Germany's first mosque celebrated its official opening in Berlin. Crowds of some 150 people turned up to protest --...
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