A Bavarian-style bar in Sydney's historic center has found its recipe for success: liter-sized beer steins, dirndl-clad servers, and plenty of something Germans are admittedly less well-known for - fun. At the Loewenbraeu Keller in Sydney, the staff are conspicuous, running around in traditional Bavarian outfits. The men wear leather trousers and the women have "Dirndl" on. This includes the bar's manager, German immigrant Reinhard Wurtz, who claims that it is the Loewenbraeu Keller's loyalty ...read more

"Women have changed. They no longer want to see interchangeable, faceless models on the pages of their magazines," Brigitte's editor-in-chief Brigitte Huber told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "They want to see real women. We want to respond to that by showing real women, women who have a profession and who are prepared to give their ages." Indeed, the amateur models in the January issue reflect the diversity that Huber says the magazine is trying to show. They range in ages from 20 to 45 and work as artist ...read more

The German film The White Ribbon, directed by Michael Haneke, about strange incidents in a small village on the eve of World War I, has won the prize for best foreign-language film at the 67th Golden Globe awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Last year the German black-and-white film won the Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film Festival and the European Film Prize, reports Deutsche Welle. "The White Ribbon" was filmed in eastern and northern Germany and tells the story of guilt, re ...read more