German

The WWOOF movement

SBS Radio — Fri, 10 Feb 12 16:20:12 +1100

German backpackers often complain about the expensive Dollar and lack of employment in the low-pay sector in Australia. If you have enough of that expensive way of travelling, there is an alternative. Travellers can participate in a voluntary farm...

Im Gespräch: Courage to Care 2

SBS Radio — Thu, 09 Feb 12 22:16:11 +1100

They came from Budapest, Sereb and Vienna, the organisers of the interactive learning project which encourages Australian school children to take action when they see bullying or instances of discrimination or prejudice. We hear from Lily Wolf, wh...

German folksongs in Australia

SBS Radio — Thu, 09 Feb 12 11:52:12 +1100

The summer break is over for the German Clubs in Melbourne such as the Club Tivoli in Windsor. A cultural part of the Club is the mixed choir `Liederkranz`, which was founded 20 years ago. Now choir practice resumes, and the tenors and sopranos st...

Youth Mailbox: show your talent

SBS Radio — Wed, 08 Feb 12 12:16:11 +1100

2012 will be an exciting year for all German students in Victoria. They can be a part of different creative events coming up and show their creative talent in song writing and filmmaking, for example on the German Rox song competition or the Germa...

Blooming desert

SBS Radio — Wed, 08 Feb 12 11:56:11 +1100

The deserts of Australia have been blessed with rain over the past couple of months. The Germans Frank and Ebby have experienced this natural miracle while travelling trough the Australian Outback with their Landcruiser. Pamela Rauleder speaks wit...

Famous Germans in Australia: a businessman of vision

SBS Radio — Tue, 07 Feb 12 12:24:43 +1100

For the last couple of months, SBS reporter Wolfgang Müller has been interviewing German historian and author Jakob Anderhand in Sydney. Its a fascinating series, focussing on the lives and adventures of famous Germans in Australia. In todays epi...

It’s super cold in Germany with no end in sight

SBS Radio — Mon, 06 Feb 12 11:28:12 +1100

Whilst it is hot in Australia, it is freezing cold in Europe. Rome, the Black Sea and Mallorca have all been covered in snow. With temperatures in Germany and elsewhere plonging to minus 36 degrees (!), it is no surprise the continent is witnessin...

The political sailings of the Pirates

SBS Radio — Fri, 03 Feb 12 12:20:23 +1100

The Pirates are on the march. We do not mean sea robbers at the Horn of Africa, we are talking about young, revolutionary politicians from Germany. The German Pirate Party was founded in 2006, counts 26 offshoots worldwide including New Zealand an...

Freezing temperatures in Germany – A report from the cold

SBS Radio — Fri, 03 Feb 12 11:32:12 +1100

More than 120 people have died in Europe as a result of the coldest February in 25 years. The people of cities such as Prague, Warsaw and Moscow have been witnessing temperatures of up to minus 26 degrees. Whilst the situation is not as dire in Ge...

In Conversation: Courage to Care 1

SBS Radio — Thu, 02 Feb 12 21:52:12 +1100

For 10 years already, a group of people has been working with school children to counteract bullying and discrimination. The members of this organisation are people who have experienced more violence in their lives than most of us can even imagine...

Of David, Goliath and German children

SBS Radio — Thu, 02 Feb 12 12:32:12 +1100

Hardly anybody is as close to the German community as Sabine Hilger. The German community pedagogue works in the German Lutheran Trinity Church in East Melbourne. Niels Büngen visits the 28-year-old during her work with children of the parish and...

Bauhaus: a revolutionary style

SBS Radio — Thu, 02 Feb 12 12:16:12 +1100

The exhibition Neues Bauen International 1927/2002 starts on the 3th of February for one month in the Australian Academy of Design in Melbourne. It is a travelling exhibition of seminal modern architecture of the Bauhaus style including 105 influe...

Coaching for success

SBS Radio — Wed, 01 Feb 12 11:00:12 +1100

What makes a good boss? Actually many directors, executives and CEOs all over the world are asking that very question. And they are willing to pay substantial sums of money to people like Franziska Goyo. She advises managers and has helpful tips o...

Pig skin meets tattooed Swiss

SBS Radio — Tue, 31 Jan 12 14:32:11 +1100

Tasmania is well known for the natural beauty, delicious wines and more recently, even for modern art. The Museum of Old and New Art - MONA- made headlines in the art world, when art collector David Walsh started presenting controversial art in hi...

Famous Germans in Australia – the adventures of a German aviator

SBS Radio — Tue, 31 Jan 12 12:04:11 +1100

In 1932 the German aviator Hans Bertram, flying from Timor to Darwin, was forced down by a storm in a remote area in the Kimberleys. For 50 days he struggled with his mechanic Adolf Klausmann to survive but was finally found by Aborigines who kept...

The tent embassy affair

SBS Radio — Mon, 30 Jan 12 14:36:12 +1100

Prime Minister Julia Gillard`s and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott`s escape from a restaurant in Canberra caused by protests by Aborigines has made news around the world. Christian Froelicher talked to a German-speaking activist in New South Wales, ...

German Summer School in Hobart

SBS Radio — Mon, 30 Jan 12 13:36:12 +1100

Many people travelled to Tasmania this summer in order to improve their German language skills and learn more about German culture. The Goethe Institute German Summer School was in Hobart this year. Hobart made a name of the new cultural centre be...

Australia Day goes Germany

SBS Radio — Mon, 30 Jan 12 13:28:12 +1100

As far as 16.000 kilometres away from their home country Australians have celebrated Australia Day in Germany. The chosen location was a traditional German house in Hannover-Buchholz. Marcus Born celebrated with Australians and Germans.

...

Australian Open – Finals

SBS Radio — Mon, 30 Jan 12 10:20:22 +1100

From the 16th to the 29th of January the eyes of the tennis world are fixed on Melbourne where the first Grand Slam Championship of the year is taking place. Joanna Kouzina reports.

In Conversation: The Vanished Musicians 7

SBS Radio — Thu, 26 Jan 12 21:52:11 +1100

In this part of our series with Dr Albrecht Duemling about Jewish artists who fled to Australia during the Nazi era, we finalise our section about the Weintraubs with the sad realization that the founders Stefan Weintraub and Horst Graff had to gi...