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The Week in Germany

June 15, 2007

Headlines

	Ronald Reagan's Famous "Tear Down This Wall" Speech Turns 20 Historians say that months of discussion and even arguing went into crafting the 20-minute speech and those six words.

	From Bauhaus to Our House: Modernism and the Quest to Design a New World for Everyman on Show at the Corcoran Spend a Saturday at an IKEA home furnishings outlet, stroll by a shop window in any American city or leaf through a design and architecture magazine - chances are you will come face to face with Modernism.

	Ich bin ein Berliner Weisse: A Berlin Beer Classic Enjoys a Renaissance in America While the signature drink of the Hauptstadt has been in decline in Germany, there may now be more breweries making Berliner Weisse-style beers in America than in Germany.

Current Affairs

	Jewish Center Returns to Prewar Home in Hamburg's Grindel Quarter Hamburg's Jewish center returned Sunday to its home in the city's Grindel quarter, with a ceremony inaugurating the new premises in the Talmud-Torah Synagogue, or Shul, attended by some 280 invited guests.
	"Foreign Policy for All": The Atlantic Initiative Launches the First Internet Think Tank on Transatlantic Relations Atlantic-Community.org combines the concept of an online author-driven magazine with the advantages of modern Web 2.0 technology.
	More than Beer and Bratwurst: What the World Thinks of Germany, One Year After the World Cup Deutsche Welle wanted to find out whether any of that pixie dust from the “summer fairy tale” rubbed off on the rest of the world, so it asked its international audience.
Business, Technology and the Environment
	Commissioner Piebalgs and State Secretary Rachel Launch Pioneer Underground CO2 storage Facility in Germany This pilot installation - the first of its kind onshore in Europe - will provide valuable knowledge on the practical aspects of underground storage of CO2 from power generation.
	Massive Machine to Deliver Ultra-Short Flashes of X-Ray Light Like a camera, the machine should be able to take flash photos of the chemical reactions as they happen.
	ICE vs. TGV - German Railway Launches Friendly Cross-Border Competition with France Consumers will benefit from lower prices and better connections that shave up to two hours off a trip to Paris.
	Munich gets Germany's First Driverless Under-street Parking Lot In the Munich neighborhood Neuhausen, residents can let robots whisk their car from the street into one of hundreds of underground parking bays, saving space and energy.
Culture and Zeitgeist
	Record Crowds Are Expected at This Year’s skulptur projekte münster For 105 days the city will become a living exhibition space, where visitors prowl from art work to art work, engrossed in an art treasure hunt.
	documenta 12 Unveiled in Kassel Artistic Director Roger M. Buergel has just three questions: Is modernity our antiquity? What is bare life? What is to be done?
	Choreographer Pina Bausch Wins Prestigious Kyoto Prize for Life’s Work When the choreographer Pina Bausch took over leadership of the Tanztheater Wuppertal nearly 35 years ago, she remarked that she was much more interested in what moves people than how people move.
	Honoring the Cinematic Legacy of Fassbinder 25 Years After His Death Rainer Werner Fassbinder has been hailed as the best thing to happen to German cinema in the postwar era - and maybe even the entire 20th century.
	Rock Opera "Spring Awakening" Sweeps Tony Awards The hit Broadway rock musical based on the work of 19th century German playwright Frank Wedekind cleaned up at the 61st annual Tony Awards Sunday (June 10) at Radio City Music Hall.
	Readings: TWIG Cannot Cover it All - But We Can Tell You Where to Find it! This week, The New York Times puts Reagan's "tear down this wall" speech into context, Jürgen Habermas remembers Richard Rorty, and Timothy Garten Ash says that the real GDR was grayer, tawdrier, and more banal than "The Lives of Others".
Sports
	All on Track for Euro 2008, Organizers Say 2008 European Championships host Austria is looking to 2006 World Cup host Germany for advice.
	Eastern German Clubs Becoming More Competitive The 2007-8 season will be the first in 5 years to feature two eastern German teams in the first division.

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