Art / Culture in Germany
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GERMANY, 2015/05/02
Gunter Grass, the German novelist, social critic and Nobel Prize winner, died of undisclosed causes on April 13 in the German town of Lubeck. He was 87 years old. Grass wrote additional than 30 plays, novels, books of poems, essays and memoirs. He was the author of “The Tin Drum”, an epic treatment of the Nazi era.
A broad-shouldered man with a drooping mustache, Grass spurned the German tradition of keeping a cool intellectual distance, insisting that a writer’s business was to be at the frontline of moral and political debate.
For a lot of, he was the voice of a German generation that came of age in World War II and bore the burden of their parents’ guilt for the atrocities of the Nazis.
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GERMANY, 2014/02/14
An historic synagogue in Essaouira, Morocco is to be refurbished in a joint project with the German Foreign Ministry.
It will be the second synagogue to be restored under a appropriate German government program.
Tuesday’s announcement came as the Moroccan Ambassador in Berlin, Omar Zniber, launched an exhibit at the embassy’s cultural center of photographs of Moroccan Jews from the 1960s inclunding new photos of synagogues in the country, both pre- and post-renovation.
