Munich (ots) - Bavaria has been concealing its findings on looted art in its possession from Jewish heirs and potential claimants for years. This is shown by an investigation by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, which has now been published. According to this, Bavaria has marked around 200 works of art in its possession internally as clearly looted art but has not shared this information or initiated restitution proceedings. In ...
INST: Institut zur Erforschung und Förderung regionaler und transnationaler Kulturprozesse
Vienna (ots) - INST was founded in 1994 by a group of scientists from the International Science Community. Today Sc.Dir. (Scientific Director) Dr. Herbert Arlt (Scientific Director and only legal representative of INST since 1994) coordinates about 25.000 colleagues from more than 150 countries. The main projects ...
Zentralrat Deutscher Sinti und Roma
Washington, D.C., USA (ots) - The 68th Bilderberg Meeting will take place from 2 - 5 June 2022 in Washington, D.C., USA. About 120 participants from 21 countries have confirmed their attendance. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia, labour and the media has been invited. The list of participants is available on ...
Vienna (ots) - The "Anschluss" of Austria in 1938 meant the end of professional life for many Austrian lawyers. Their fate is described in the new edition of the book "Advokaten 1938". “The Association of Research of the Professional History of the Members of the Austrian Bar Discredited between 1938 and 1945“, which is the editor of the book “Advokaten 1938“, ...
Berlin (ots) - Many renowned protagonists of the National Socialist art scene continued working in the Federal Republic as full-time visual artists after 1945. They produced works to be displayed in public spaces, received lucrative commissions from government, industry and church organisations, taught at art ...
Dresden (ots) - On 13 February 2020, Dresden will be commemorating the 75th anniversary of the city centre's destruction during World War II. At 15:00, Federal President Mr Steinmeier will hold a commemorative speech; he will then join a human chain around the city centre together with the mayor of Dresden, Dirk Hilbert, and guests from Dresden's twin cities (18:00). ...
Berlin (ots) - - Video including original graffiti art gets the message of the Wall across - Online generator tool to create individual freedom messages on social media - "Die kulturellen Erben" and its founder Ibo Omari call for more humanity and a peaceful togetherness Berlin Wall fights for freedom It`s been 30 ...
Berlin (ots) - Non-profit organisation "Die kulturellen Erben e.V." makes the Wall talk and mobilises people to participate - Video including original graffiti art gets the message of the Wall across - Online generator tool to create individual freedom messages on social media - "Die kulturellen Erben" and its founder Ibo Omari call for more humanity and a peaceful ...
Cologne (ots) - Today, on 12th June, Anne Frank would have been 90-years-old. Her diary is regarded as the epitome of a testimony to the traumatic horrors of the Second World War and the crimes against the Jewish people. Learning from history - the German public broadcaster WDR also sees that as one of the most important social tasks and wants to make its contribution. ...
Köln (ots) - The Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel rejects the idea of threatening to cut EU subsidies to member states should they fail to comply with EU decisions or violate the principle of the rule of law. In an exclusive interview (WDR) for the ARD-Europamagazin (German Television/Das Erste, 26.03.2017, 12.45 Uhr) held at the sidelines of the Rome Summit, she ...
Berlin (ots) - When the GDR government convened a press conference for the 9 November 1989, no one expected that there would be crowds pushing through the border crossings towards West Berlin just four hours later. And if spokesman Günter Schabowski had been better prepared and not gotten confused by reporter questions, that night would probably have taken a different ...
Berlin (ots) - The countdown is on. From 7-9 November, 8,000 illuminated balloons will change Berlin's face. They will line a "Lichtgrenze" (border of light) along the former path of the Berlin Wall from Bornholmer Straße, past Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie. Residents will reminisce, while visitors will ...
Berlin (ots) - The Berlin Wall has long been torn down. But there are still original pieces 25 years after the fall. In Berlin-Teltow you can even paint on them yourself. Elmar Prost clearly has a lot of fun giving visitors tours through his Wall parkas he goes through a gap between two colourfully painted Wall pieces. Up until 25 years ago, these divided East and West Berlin from each other. There were no gaps and no possibility of getting through them. Now they are ...
Berlin (ots) - The German capital is expecting a large number of visitors to descend on the city to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. "Guests want to experience first- hand how Berlin and its people have taken advantage of the historic opportunity given to them a quarter century ago", ...
