Share It!1002000 This new program is meant to help to prevent a recurrence of anything like the Rana Plaza disaster of 2013. In Bavaria, G7 leaders have agreed to put a new insurance fund into place in order to create meaningful improvements to the garment industry supply chain and to ensure that there will never again be a repeat of the disaster at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh in 2013, in which a building collapsed and killed 1,137 workers. Beyond prevention, this fund will also help to provide Read more [...]

It was a routine trip that the 28-year-old British tour guide and driver had made many times. Normally Christopher would then have travelled the short distance back across the German border and into Austria to his company’s office in the town of Zell am See.However that afternoon five years ago he vanished. Christopher’s unlocked van was found less than 24 hours later, with the keys in the ignition and the lights on. Inside was his wallet and mobile. Later his passport was discovered in his apartment Read more [...]

Nearly 30 unknown poems by Katherine Mansfield have been discovered in a US library, giving fresh insight into the writer’s most painful and difficult period, the evidence for which she had later destroyed. Gerri Kimber, senior lecturer in English at the University of Northampton and chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society, made the discovery at Chicago’s Newberry Library in May this year. The collection’s significance had remained undetected until now because it was marked with a name similar Read more [...]

It’s that time of year again: the balmy nights of late spring are the augurs of the annual ritual of blood-letting in northern Bavaria, when the remaining Wagners do their best to tear each other apart in public on the eve of the Bayreuth festival. Related: Eva Wagner to leave Bayreuth - what does this mean for the festival? This week’s fun on the Green Hill concerns the following: it was announced over a year ago that Eva Wagner-Pasquier would be leaving her co-managerial duties with her Read more [...]

There’s a lot of reason to be paying attention to Germany lately.Never mind President Obama’s recent visit to the Bavaria region of the country for the G7 — and the scandalous revelation he drank non-alcoholic beer while he was there (#beerghazi?) — or Jeb Bush’s saber-rattling follow up in Berlin in front of an audience which sees the Iraq war as a striking American disaster.The real reason is, as a growing number of American students have discovered, Germany wants to pay for Read more [...]

If youve driven through Clevelands theater district anytime since late last summer, youve probably noticed Hofbruhaus Cleveland. Its impossible to miss a 24,000-square-foot slice of Bavaria dropped smack-dab between Playhouse Square and the Greyhound station on Chester Avenue sort of stands out. And while Ive never been to Bavaria, Clevelands slice of it is exactly how Id imagine it. The exterior is a tad more modern than you might expect, Read more [...]

Bavaria’s Neuschwanstein Castle, the subject of one of Adolf Hitler’s paintings. Watercolour paintings and drawings by Adolf Hitler from about 100 years ago are to go up for auction in southern Germany this month, an auction house said Tuesday. Some of the works, which date from 1904 to 1922, are signed A. Hitler, the catalogue of Nuremberg-based Weidler auctioneers showed on its website. The 14 watercolours and drawings are expected to go under the hammer between June 18 and 20 for between Read more [...]

Sonnenbatterie, a market leader for smart energy storage systems with offices in Los Angeles, California and Bavaria, Germany, on June 10th, 2015 announced the opening of a new research and development facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The 5,000 sq. ft. space will house 12–15 engineers who will expand Sonnenbatterie’s current array of next generation smart energy storage devices for homes and businesses. The new Atlanta facility will be the center for product development, prototyping, and Read more [...]

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sonnenbatterie, a market leader for smart energy storage systems with offices in Los Angeles, California and Bavaria, Germany, today announced the opening of a new research and development facility in Atlanta, GA. The new 5,000 sq. ft. space will house 12-15 engineers who will expand Sonnenbatterie’s current array of next generation smart energy storage devices for homes and businesses. Sonnenbatterie is the Read more [...]

I just wanted to make sure this was clear. You know I’m always looking out for you.There have been reports all over the Internets that President Obama shared a beer with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at 11 in the morning Sunday. This is not technically correct.From the British Telegraph newspaper:Eleven in the morning might be considered a little early for a beer in some parts of the world, but in Bavaria breakfast is not complete without a weissbier, as the local wheat beer is called.It’s Read more [...]