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The Wim Wenders Foundation announced on Wednesday that the 1975 film "Falsche Bewegung" ("The Wrong Move"), at the center of a headline-grabbing dispute between the German filmmaker and actress Nastassja Kinski, is being withdrawn from circulation for the time being. Kinski has been trying for years to get filmmaker Wim Wenders to remove a scene from the movie. In the brief scene, her co-star Rüdiger Vogler (then over 30 years old) visits the 13-year-old in her bedroom, where she is lying on a bed wearing only panties. The man undresses down to his underwear and lies on top of her; he slaps her and then caresses her face. "Although I didn't know much at the age of 13, I could already tell that it wasn't right," the German actress recently told the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung newsp...

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Since the beginning of June, everything quiets down in German Ikea stores on Wednesdays between 5 and 7 p.m. — with no music to be heard, dimmer lights and no announcements over the PA system (except in the case of an emergency). All in all, customers and staff are experiencing less of a strain on their senses — and that's the whole idea behind the Quiet Hour. The concept stems from an initiative by the German association Gemeinsam Zusammen (Together Together). "We want the Quiet Hour to provide relief for people with invisible disabilities. Their nervous systems are often permanently overwhelmed, which is why we'd like to provide them with moments of relief, with low sensory stimulation," Rebecca Lefevre, the association's spokesperson, told DW. The Quiet Hour is meant to break down the...

The Franco-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi, who became known worldwide through her graphic novel and film "Persepolis," has died at the age of 56, according to news agency AFP. "Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life," her family said in a statement sent to AFP. Ripa, a Swedish producer, actor and screenwriter, died on April 8, 2025. After her husband's death, Satrapi founded the Mattias and Marjane Ripa-Satrapi Cinema Foundation to support foreign students wishing to come to Paris to study filmmaking, and she documented her grief by posting on Instagram the message: "For I have lost the love of my life." 'Persepolis,' a landmark work for graphic novel genre The Iranian-born writer, illustrator and film...

Memory of the Holocaust may be omnipresent in Israel, but it is fading elsewhere, even in the country where it was planned and by whom it was carried out. Some 80 years after the end of World War II, a 2025 survey by the Jewish Claims Conference found that roughly 10 to 12% of young adults in Germany had never heard the word "Holocaust." The same study found that around 40% of 18- to 29-year-olds in Germany did not know that six million Jews were murdered during the Nazi era. That is one of the reasons Yad Vashem — the world's largest Holocaust memorial, based in Jerusalem — is establishing a branch in Germany. It is the first outside Israel. "We do not come to Germany in order to strengthen German democracy or in order to warn against the rise of an extreme right party in Germany," Yad ...

Cologne's Catholic Cathedral will begin charging tourists €12 (about $14) for entry from July 1. The renowned gothic church and UNESCO world heritage site first announced its plan to introduce entry fees in March, becoming one of comparatively few German places of worship charging for admission.  The figure announced on Wednesday is slightly higher than the €10 ceiling proposed in March by architect Barbara Schock-Werner, who heads the Central Cathedral Construction Association (ZDV).Guido Assmann (left) and Clemens van de Wen laid out the plans to reporters in Cologne on TuesdayImage: Benjamin Westhoff/dpa/picture alliance Why is the church charging for entry?  Church officials said at a press conference on Wednesday that the fee is needed to cover maintenance, security and daily oper...

When the world seems to be falling apart, people look for something to hold on to. "Now, more than ever, with the world plagued by crises and at risk of being engulfed by war, there is a growing desire for unity," says Evelyn Meining, artistic director of the Mozartfest Würzburg. Throughout history, the genius and beauty of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music has frequently provided comfort during times of crisis — and it continues to do so today. "As a composer, he is a figurehead, especially when there is a sense of hyper-stimulation and polarization," Meining tells DW. That is why the motto of Germany's largest Mozart festival this year is "Evoked Beauty: Mozart the Idol." Mozart as an idol of modernity The opening concert of the festival, featuring the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, demo...

For decades,Marilyn Monroe's white dress billowing above a subway grate, red lips and platinum-blonde hair have represented the epitome of Hollywood glamour. The iconic scene from the movie "The Seven Year Itch" (1955) is perhaps one of the most famous moments in film history. Very few women of the 20th century achieved the iconic status Monroe did while simultaneously being ferociously judged for their appearance. This was clearly visible that September night in 1954, when the legendary subway grate scene was filmed in New York City. Hundreds of photographers and onlookers watched as Monroe repeatedly posed above the ventilation shaft, her dress swirling upward as she tried not to reveal too much, all the while looking as if she were having the time of her life. Ironically, the entire sc...

The interwar Weimar Republic period is often referred to as a "Golden Age" of culture and creativity in Germany. It was a time when groundbreaking movements, from Bauhaus architecture and experimental cinema to avant-garde art and theater, flourished against the backdrop of economic catastrophe and extreme political polarization. In cities such as Berlin, where speakeasies, cabarets and hedonistic nightlife were the norm, a radical new genre of music became immensely popular. Jazz, which emerged from African American communities in the Deep South, was first brought to Germany by pioneering artists from the US, UK and France after World War I. Josephine Baker, the US-born dancer, actress and jazz artist who found fame in 1920s Paris, became a huge star in Germany after her sensational deb...

Skip next section Kai Havertz: Arsenal and Germany's man for the big moment05/28/2026May 28, 2026Kai Havertz: Arsenal and Germany's man for the big momentKai Havertz has a habit of scoring winning goals for his club and Arsenal hope he can do it again on SaturdayImage: Marvin Ibo Güngör/GES/picture allianceGermany forward Kai Havertz is set to play in his second British Champions League final on Saturday. Havertz is in the right place at the right time. If he can deliver in the Champions League final in Budapest on Saturday, he will join a rare list of players to have scored in multiple Champions League finals. More than that though, he will have cemented his place as one of the most successful German footballers of all time. Click here to read DW's full analysis of what Saturday's game...