Photos by Unsie Zuege German students These German exchange students, from Ingolstadt, Bavaria, spent three weeks in Chanhassen and Chaska high schools and lived with local host families. Read more [...]

From schnitzel on a double decker bus to Oktoberfest in Wapping, German culture is hitting the capital hard this month. If you want to get in on the action, first things first, it’s important to look like a German. In the absence of an Angela Merkel pant-suit or Boris Becker tight shorts, most people opt for traditional Bavarian lederhosen (literally: leather trousers) or dirdl. Lederhosen are sort of brown goats’-hide dungaree-shorts. Presumably everyone in Bavaria looks like a toddler Read more [...]

Clariant opens biotech research centre Published: October 02, 2015 CBC to house 100 RD staff Clariant has officially opened its new Clariant Biotech Centre (CBC) at  Planegg near Munich. At a ceremony attended by the Bavarian Minister for Economic Affairs, Media, Energy  Technology, Ilse Aigner, the key to the facility was symbolically handed over to CEO Hariolf Kottmann and the head of biotechnology André Koltermann. The CBC covers 6,000 m2 and houses about 100 staff. Opening Read more [...]