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Bavaria's wood-carvers struggle to keep tradition alive

The Bavarian village Oberammergau is most famous for its religious dramas, but it also has another long-time artistic custom: wood-carving. The tradition, however, is facing extinction. »

 
 
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Antiquarian booksellers adapt to keep industry alive

Antiquarian bookshops are closing every year because small business owners cannot compete with internet platforms. The solution, it seems, isn't to go completely online, but to mix old strategies with modern methods. »

 
 
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Cologne literature festival delves into politics and power

Now in its 10th year, lit.COLOGNE has become more politicised than it ever intended. Program director Regina Schilling talks about trouble with China and visits from Nobel Prize winner Herta Mueller and artist Ai Weiwei. »

 
 
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Germany has love-hate relationship to daring Pop Art guru Mel Ramos

Some say Mel Ramos revolutionized art in the 1960s by melding it with advertising. A Tuebingen museum has devoted the first retrospective ever to the Californian who says he paints pictures of women, not women.  »

 
 
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Soprano Brueggergosman's 'long, languid' album is an ode to night

Soprano Measha Brueggergosman just released her second album on Deutsche Grammophon. It pays tribute to night time, with European works in five languages.  »

 
 
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Oscar night triumph for Kathryn Bigelow, Christoph Waltz

Reality trumped fantasy at the Oscars. The Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" took best picture, beating favorite "Avatar" and making its director, Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to take home the Best Director prize. »

 
 
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DW's culture calender: This month in Germany

From music and art to film and dance - find out what's going on in Germany's cultural scene. Deutsche Welle has compiled a list of this month's highlights.

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Find information on current and ongoing cultural issues with these specially selected links.

 
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Literature

Dossier: Talking about writing

From the latest Dan Brown blockbuster through to the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Find out more about your favorite, or soon to be favorite authors with these author portraits and interviews.  »

 
 
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Book tips - auf Deutsch!

Can you read German or are you learning the language? Here you can find reading suggestions, book reviews and interviews with authors - all in German.  »

 
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Jan Lisiecki plays Chopin's 'Piano Concerto No. 1' with the Sinfonietta Cracovia.

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