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The Week in Germany: Culture

January 19, 2007

Readings: TWIG Cannot Cover it All - But We Can Tell You Where to Find it!

As you might imagine, the TWIG editors spend a lot of time sifting through the mountain of information available on the Internet about Germany. For those of you who are not quite as surflustig - we continue our roving weekly selection of links to top-notch writing about Germany on the Web. If you like TWIG, you might find these stories interesting as well.

Happy Reading!

The international style (The Guardian)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel tells British journalist Ian Traynor about her Middle East peace plan and the German passion for Europe.

The German mindset (signandsight)
Cologne-based novelist Navid Kermani explains why Franz Kafka is the most quintessentially German writer and pinpoints the best German traits as exemplified by Kafka and Sebastian Haffner. He illustrates how the most forward-thinking Germans are truly European. (It's long, but well worth the read!)

Can Germany Really Shut Down its Nuclear Reactors?
(Spiegel International)
The country is set on moving away from nuclear power - this article by four Der Spiegel journalists explores whether the nuclear phase-out, spawned by the nation's green movement, is still realistic.

Berlin Word Doctor Puts Unused Vocab on Life Support (Deutsche Welle)
Deutsche Welle reports on the Berlin journalist Bodo Mrozek, who has compiled a dictionary of endangered words and has spearheaded a campaign to rehabilitate words that have fallen out of use.

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