Interviews
Our editors sometimes get the chance to sit down and talk with the people in the news and behind the news. We'll bring you the best of these exclusive interviews.
German director Michael Verhoeven has been honored on both sides of the Atlantic for his unflinching portrayals of Germany's Nazi-era and wartime past. But he really would rather be making comedies.
Filmmaker Michael Verhoeven
German comedian and author Hape Kerkeling's spiritual pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain, which served as the basis of a bestselling book in Germany, has now been published in the United States under the title "I'm Off Then" (Ich bin dann mal weg).
Author and Comedian Hape Kerkeling
Scheer Promotes Renewable Energies with Urgency
Germany.info spoke to the renewable energy pioneer, Hermann Scheer, as he was in the US to receive an award for his promotion of solar energy. "Each postponement of the shift to renewable energies is not better for the economy, it's worse for the economy."
Germany - A Place for Science
What is Germany like as a location for science? Where do its strengths lie? What is special about it? Deutschland Magazine discussed these issues with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Mlynek, President of the Helmholtz Association, and Prof. Dr. David B. Audretsch (USA), Director of the Max Planck Institute of Economics.
Stefan Aust on the Baader-Meinhof Story
"We have to show what it was, what kind of glamour, what kind of radical chic it was that led people to follow them along this path into insanity," the former Spiegel editor-in-chief says of the movie based on his book, The Baader Meinhof Complex.
The Leo Baeck Institute: Preserving German Jewish History
Germany.info spoke with Executive Director Carol Kahn Strauss, Research Director Frank Mecklenburg, and Curator Renata Stein about the institute and the preservation of Germans' and Jew's shared history.
An Encounter With Filmmaker Werner Herzog
The Bavarian and Hollywood icon's most recent film, Encounters at the End of the World, can be seen as the natural evolution of a career spent exploring the limits of human endurance. We asked Herzog about Antarctica and his current project set in New Orleans.
Max Raabe's Bittersweet Melody
If you are in a mood to party like it's 1929, then the anachronistically dapper Max Raabe can take you there with his revival of Weimar-era cabaret and tin pan alley classics. We caught up with Raabe before his performance in Washington, DC.
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Director of "The Lives of Others"
Germany.info interviewed Donnersmarck in November 2006, a few months before his film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and made him one of the most prominent representatives of German cinema today.
We Can’t Take Borders With Us Into Space
German astronaut Hans Schlegel spoke with Germany.info about his experience helping to deliver and install the European Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station. From space, “you don’t see any borders; you don’t see any religions, races,” Schlegel said.
