Helping Haiti

German Chancellor Angela Merkel encouraged more citizens to give to relief funds in an open letter published in Bild newspaper on January 19. “The people in Haiti need our continued support,” Merkel writes. “They need our solidarity.”
The Austrian Red Cross has a unit specialized in clean water and subsequently plague prevention. Specialists, among them two [...]

Miep Gies Austrian who hid Anne Frank and saved her diary

“I am not a hero, but did what seemed necessary at the time”
“Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary [...]

Fall of the Wilshire Berlin Wall

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U2 Brandenburger Tor

You should not see the effects

German World Magazine sat down with Bremerhaven native, Academy Award and Emmy winner Volker Engel, the day after Roland Emmerich’s 2012 premiered at the Regal, a futuristic glass-castle movie theater in downtown Los Angeles. The SFX Magician and his partner, Marc Weigert, cooked up the impressive Special Effects with their company, Uncharted Territory, for [...]

“Los Angeles is the place to go to reinvent yourself”

Kevin Lee Miller, an American with Austrian roots, was one of three grand-prize winners in the 2009 Final Draft Big Break screenplay competition for his script “TRIGGER MOM.” German-World Magazine interviewed him exclusively about his career as an emerging writer in Hollywood.

GW: First, congratulations. There were over 3,000 submissions and only three [...]

Disney’s Bambi is from Austria

Felix Salten is the author of one of our most beloved fairy tales of our time: Bambi.
Very few people know that he was Viennese and sold the rights to the book for $5000 to Walt Disney during his Swiss exile during WWII.
The author was born as Siegmund Saltzmann in 1869, due to his father’s debt, [...]

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