#DeutschlandNoFilter: The Germany Magazine of the Goethe-Institut

Lustrous facades, colourful embellishments and windows adorned with decorations: expressionist facades of buildings in Magdeburg�s Otto-Richter-Strasse.

Detours | Magdeburg Brightly coloured beats drab and grey

Bauhaus meets East German prefabs and Hundertwasser meets Gothic: Magdeburg is a truly “colourful city”. With two superstars who grew up nearby.

Well placed: The Olympic rings have recently been attached to Paris' most famous landmark

Olympic Games in Paris More inclusive, more responsible, more spectacular

This summer, the Olympic Games will be held for the third time in the place where their modern iteration was invented: Paris. Do the Games in the French capital, with their vision of openness, have what it takes to become a model for major sporting events of the future?

Karl Lagerfeld, played by Daniel Br�hl, is seen in a close-up.

Picture Palace | Film Double Vision: Stars becoming Stars

In the new streaming series “Becoming Karl Lagerfeld”, the fashion icon is brought to life by Daniel Brühl, a Marvel superstar. Their star-to-star biopic treatment is only one of many on the scene.

Cherrypicker | Literature With the manuscript across the Pyrenees

When the Wehrmacht invaded France in May 1940, some of Germany's best-known artists were forced to flee for a second time in exile. The writer and journalist Uwe Wittstock tells the story of their fates in a sensitive and gripping way.

Frankfurter Buchmesse — Cherrypicker

The literature blog *Cherrypicker* presents selected novels and non-fiction, graphic novels and stories, audio books and literature for children and teenagers.

Language

Illustration: A screen on which a wide open mouth can be seen, speech bubble with several smileys

Word! The Language Column Twitter and the long chicken

When he thinks about Twitter in the past, Elias Hirschl gets sad. It used to be the platform for absurd nonsense, for incomprehensible jokes, for new words that ended up in everyday life. An obituary � and an appeal to continue making stupid jokes on other platforms.

Illustration: A man with his mouth wide open holds a sign saying �Untergang� (Demise)

Word! The Language Column The demise of the German language

Elias Hirschl, author, spoken word artist, musician � and our new columnist � is very surprised by the battle cries of the self-appointed guardians of the German language. After all, it changes in one way or another over time � genderisation here, Anglicisms there.

Illustration: A woman with a speech bubble containing a book, next to it another, somewhat faded speech bubble with the same book, then just the book without the speech bubble

Word! The Language Column I Am Made Entirely of Language

In her final column, Ulrike Almut Sandig, who has translated many poems herself, pays tribute to two colleagues who have translated her poetry. The following is an excursion into English- and Georgian-speaking realms – and different ways of reading literature.

Culture

Cherrypicker The Essence Of It All

"Rural punk" Rocko Schamoni delivers the second part of his autobiography in his familiar anecdotal style, in which he gains a foothold in the Hamburg music scene, tries his hand as a rock star and eventually becomes co-founder of the Pudel Club, a beacon of Hamburg's nightlife.

The band Laing at the Echo Jazz Awards in Hamburg 2013. All four members are wearing red jumpers with the letter L A I N G on them.

SoundBites How Laing Turned a Forgotten Classic Into a Hit

When Laing performed Morgens immer müde at the Bundesvision Song Contest in 2012, nobody could have guessed that they would awaken a forgotten classic of German music history from its slumber. The Berlin band turned a barely noticed pop song into a celebrated ode to nightlife.

The cult figure Bernd the Bread in front of the town hall in Erfurt alongside his children's channel friends Briegel der Busch (left) and Chilli das Schaf (right)

Bernd das Brot �Crap!� � Cult figure on children's television

For more than twenty years, “Bernd das Brot” has appeared on German children's television – usually in a bad mood. No wonder people on social media are asking why children in Germany are allowed to watch something like this. So: Who are we dealing with? Who is this cult figure?

Germany

CSD Leipzig 2023. Participants with Pride Flag

LGBTQ+ friendly cities in Germany A queer journey through the cities

Many German cities are today proud of their vibrant queer community. There are bars, clubs, events and initiatives that offer queer people a safe space. The ways to get there were very different.

Venice? No, Augsburg! Incidentally, there are more bridges here than in the Italian city of gondolas.

Detours | Augsburg Outstanding Water Culture

It’s hard to believe, but Augsburg has more bridges than Venice, not to mention wonderful fountains and countless small streams running through the city! The Romans built the first aqueduct and the Augsburgers later perfected the water system – a prime example of Swabian engineering skill in Bavaria’s oldest city.

The teams of the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR line up for the anthems in Hamburg's Volksparkstadion on 22 June 1974 before the group match of the World Cup.

East-West German Football History Separated by Politics, United by Football

Ronald Reng has written a football book that is about much more than football. 1974 – Eine deutsche Begegnung is a captivating portrait of divided Germany in the 1970s.

EIne Graphik mit verschiedenen Geb�uden und Richtungspfeilen, dazwischen der Schriftzug "Umwege" bzw. "Detours" — Detours

Once a month, we take you to a place in Germany that you absolutely must discover!