While Bonn is known as a hot spot for Beethoven pilgrims, composer Robert Schumann is celebrated there too. Schummannfest director Markus Schuck told DW about his influence on American director ...

He’s the towering musical genius who didn’t let his deafness prevent him from becoming one of the world’s greatest composers. Ludwig van Beethoven may have been born 250 years ago, but his story of ...

On the stage of Bonn’s stark modern opera house, beside the majestic river Rhine, Dirk Kaftan, the charismatic conductor of the Beethoven Orchestra, is welcoming the audience to the first concert in ...

''The eyes of the world will be on you, and you carry a heavy responsibility,'' the UN special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told Afghan delegates at the first meeting on the future of Afghanistan in the ...

WWF urges stronger political alignment on key priorities: phasing out fossil fuels, ending ecosystem destruction and scaling up climate finance Bonn, Germany (12 June 2025) – As delegates convene in ...

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BONN, Germany — Bonn’s reborn. Again. The quiet, cozy university city on the banks of the Rhine experienced its first unlikely reincarnation when it became the capital of West Germany after World War ...

John le Carré called Bonn "a small town in Germany" when his Cold War thriller of the same name was published just seven years after the building of the Berlin Wall. Two decades on from the Wall's ...

After a two-year pandemic hiatus, the blossoming trees are sure to be a spectacle once again. Just how did the Japanese trees become so popular in Germany? The smartphone cameras of amateur ...