Germany and the United States have to face the shrinking of cities. The urban sociologist Christine Hannemann talks about the challenges and chances of this phenomenon.more
Germany is a land of automobiles. However, the statistics also show that other means of transport are becoming increasingly important.more

Dieter Graumann, the new president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, is cultivating fresh confidence among Jews.more

A glance at the map of Europe’s most populous country shows that Germany’s 82 million inhabitants live in a multitude of different towns and communities.more
Fixed social roles are history. An interview about the diversity of lifestyles, ongoing social change and the new life choices of the Mick Jagger generation.more
Ways of life change. In a modern and open society, patchwork families, apartment shares and single households have long since established themselves alongside traditional families. We take a look into their living rooms.more
An interview with Professor Dr. Martina Löw, sociologist and urban researcher at Technische Universität Darmstadt, on the relationship between town and country, the new popularity of urban living and characteristics of German...more
A new generation of highly qualified women managers is occupying more top positions on supervisory and executive boards. There are sound economic reasons for trying to attract women into business.more
Optimistic, highly motivated, family-oriented and more interested in politics – that is how the 16th Shell Youth Study describes Germany’s younger generation in 2010.more

Stephan A. Jansen is the founder-president of the Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen. The university has an interdisciplinary approach which encompasses economics, culture and politics. The percentage of women students is 55%.more
German cinema of the moment is female: in four productions exceptional actresses shine in powerful roles. Barbara Sukowa, Iris Berben, Johanna Wokalek and Veronica Ferres dig deep into German history bringing stories to life on...more
20 years after the fall of the Wall there are still traces of the two Germanies’ history in the Berlin-Mitte districtmore
They were born in the year the Berlin Wall came down, the structure that divided Germany and the world: the 1989 generation is special. A portrait of four young Germans born at the time of historical changemore
Ulrich Wickert was abroad when the Wall came down. But the journalist immediately realized that Germany would be a more exciting place to work than anywhere else.more
Professor Helmut K. Anheier talks about civil society in Germany, the networking of global involvement and why citizen participation is essential for a free societymore
Civil society is viewed as the “third sector” located between the state and the marketplace: one third of citizens in Germany involve themselves for the common good with time, ideas, empathy and moneymore
She is a gynaecologist, Alternative Nobel Prize winner and founder of Medica Mondiale: Monika Hauser works for war-traumatized womenmore
He ended his business career to do more for people: Thilo Bode was “Mr Greenpeace” for many years and is now the founder of Foodwatchmore
The struggle for freedom in Hungary, Poland and the then Czechoslovakia set processes in motion in Europe that played a major part in the epoch-making changes of 1989. A look back in timemore
Building Europe was the raison d’être of the Federal Republic from its very first day: it is the Europeanization of Germany that is being celebrated in the Federal Republic’s jubilee yearmore