An Environmentally-Friendly German-German Deal

Tip Top Meats Goes Solar

By Christian Thiele for German World
Fans of German food can now bite their sausages in Carlsbad’s “Tip Top Meats” restaurant with an even cleaner conscience thanks to an environmentally-friendly German-German business transaction. From now on sausages at Tip Top Meats will be fried with green energy. Owner John Haedrich commissioned a [...]

“LA is like a Big Bang Soup”

Interview with former Goethe Institut Director Bernd Desinger
At the end of June 2009 a prominent member of the German community bid farewell to Los Angeles: Goethe Institut director Bernd Desinger.
The dynamic director in his mid-40s headed the German cultural center for more than four years and with such passionate dedication that one expected Bernd [...]

Celebrate Carnival at its best

Get ready for the “Fifth Season”: Celebrate Karneval at its best at the 25th GAMGA Gala in Las Vegas.

On January 15, 2010, and Saturday 16, 2010, more than 2,000 German Karneval fans from all over North America will flock to the Plaza Hotel in Downtown Las Vegas to celebrate Karneval (Fasching / Mardi [...]

Swiss Chocolate

Tasty, flavourful, healthy, stimulating and depression killing, compact and easily hideable in a jacket pocket or an office drawer – CHOCOLATE – the most famous famous Swiss export has definitely conquered the world, even more since health specialists have come to recognize the benefits of Cacao and especially dark chocolate. [...]

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 [...]