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American Artist Richard Serra Receives Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Nov 19, 2009 | Germany.info
Ambassador Scharioth Presents Award to Richard Serra © German Embassy, Washington, DC; by C. Avril

Ambassador Scharioth awarded Richard Serra the Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, which was bestowed upon him by Horst Köhler, President of the Federal Republic of Germany. 

Search for Missing Schiller Relic Ends

Nov 17, 2009 | Young Germany
Dawn and morning mist over a lake in the Water Tank Lakes Area, Tahquamenon , Falls State Park, Michigan. (c) picture-alliance/Photoshot

Historians have attempted for years to clarify where the stolen skull of poet Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) has ended up. Now they have announced the search will end, even though the case is far from closed.

That Ever Child-Like Quality – Michael Ende

Nov 16, 2009 | Federal Foreign Office
Michael Ende in 1989 (c) dpa - Bildfunk

Michael Ende, one of Germany's most popular postwar writers of children's books, would have turned 80 this year. His books, includin Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story), have been translated into 45 languages and have sold over 20 million copies worldwide.

From Bauhaus to Our House at MoMA

Nov 13, 2009 | Germany in NYC/Germany.info
The reconstructed director's office of Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus University in Weimar in December 1999. The room was furnished as a work of art in 1923. It lies in the main building of the university which was declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1996. (c) dpa - International

The retrospective "Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity" is the first comprehensive treatment of the Bauhaus at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York since 1938 and the first major show in the United States on the subject in decades.

A Flying Poet as Critical Companion: Hans Magnus Enzensberger's 80th Birthday

Nov 13, 2009 | Goethe-Institut Online-Redaktion, November, 2009
Hans Magnus Enzensberger in 2007 (c) dpa - Bildfunk

For more than half a century Hans Magnus Enzensberger has been one of the leading intellectuals of Germany. His essays and poems mirror the political intellectual history of the country. On November 11, he celebrated his 80th birthday.

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