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Bavarian politician Heike Heubach will become the first deaf member of Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, this week. Heubach, a 44-year-old Social Democrat (SPD), is slated to take the seat of current SPD lawmaker Uli Grötsch, who is leaving the Bundestag to serve as the commissioner of Germany's Federal Police. Heubach stood as a candidate in the Augsburg-Land constituency in the 2021 parliamentary elections, but she was narrowly defeated. The president of the German Federation of the Deaf, Helmut Vogel, called Heubach's selection for the Bundestag "a significant step for the sign-language ...
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Star US film director Wes Anderson plans to produce at least part of his next film at Germany's storied Babelsberg Studio in Potsdam, located just outside Berlin. The title of the film has not been revealed, but Medienboard, a film funding agency for Berlin and the surrounding German state of Brandenburg, named Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera and Bill Murray as stars. "After filming had to be postponed last year due to strikes in the US, it is a great pleasure for Berlin-Brandenburg that the exceptional director and newly crowned Oscar winner Wes Anderson is filming in the Babelsberg studios," ...
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The German Catholic Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, who led the Vatican's charitable and disaster-relief work for a number of years, died in Rome on Friday. He was 89 years old. The German Bishops' Conference (DBK) announced his death. The German clergyman moved to the Vatican in 1980 after being appointed vice president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity by then-Pope John Paul II. In 1995, Cordes was named leader of "Cor Unum," the Vatican's charitable and disaster-relief organization, which he continued to lead until 2010. He was made a cardinal in 2007 by then-Pope Benedict XVI, a fellow G...
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Patriarch Neofit, the leader of the Bulgarian Orthodox church, died on Wednesday evening at the age of 78, the main secretary of the church council said. Patriarch Neofit died of multiple organ failure in The Military Medical Academy of Sofia after a long illness, said Bishop Gerasim. The head of the church had been receiving treatment there for a lung disease since the end of November 2023. Neofit had been elected as head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in February 2013 and was also Bishop of the capital Sofia. Neofit was born on October 15, 1945 in the Bulgarian capital and became Metropoli...
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Russia is suspected of being behind a violent attack in Lithuania on Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, a close ally of the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who died in an Arctic prison just over three weeks ago. Volkov, who served as Navalny's chief of staff, lives in exile in Lithuania. He was attacked and injured outside his home on Tuesday evening. The 43-year-old was combative following the altercation. "We will carry on and not give up," he said in a video published on Telegram on Wednesday. He called the violence a "typical bandit" behaviour by Russian President Vladimir Putin...
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Russia is suspected of being behind a violent attack in Lithuania on Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, a close ally of the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who died in an Arctic prison just over three weeks ago. Volkov, who served as Navalny's chief of staff, lives in exile in Lithuania. He was attacked and injured outside his home on Tuesday evening. The 43-year-old was combative following the altercation. "We will carry on and not give up," he said in a video published on Telegram on Wednesday. He called the violence a "typical bandit" behaviour by Russian President Vladimir Putin...
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Russia is suspected of being behind a violent attack in Lithuania on Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, a close ally of the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who died in an Arctic prison just over three weeks ago. Volkov, who served as Navalny's chief of staff, lives in exile in Lithuania. He was attacked and injured outside his home on Tuesday evening. The 43-year-old was combative following the altercation. "We will carry on and not give up," he said in a video published on Telegram on Wednesday. He called the violence a "typical bandit" behaviour by Russian President Vladimir Putin...
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German actress Hanna Schygulla, best-known for her extensive collaboration with the late German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, is to be recognized with the German Film Academy's lifetime achievement award at the German Film Awards in May. Schygulla, 80, starred in Fassbinder films including "The Marriage of Maria Braun" (1979) and "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1980). She also worked with other acclaimed European directors including Wim Wenders, Jean-Luc Godard and Fatih Akin. "Hanna Schygulla is an institution of German and European cinema," actress Alexandra Maria Lara, the president of the Ge...
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German actress Hanna Schygulla, best-known for her extensive collaboration with the late German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, is to be recognized with the German Film Academy's lifetime achievement award at the German Film Awards in May. Schygulla, 80, starred in Fassbinder films including "The Marriage of Maria Braun" (1979) and "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1980). She also worked with other acclaimed European directors including Wim Wenders, Jean-Luc Godard and Fatih Akin. "Hanna Schygulla is an institution of German and European cinema," actress Alexandra Maria Lara, the president of the Ge...
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German actress Hanna Schygulla, best-known for her extensive collaboration with the late German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, is to be recognized with the German Film Academy's lifetime achievement award at the German Film Awards in May. Schygulla, 80, starred in Fassbinder films including "The Marriage of Maria Braun" (1979) and "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1980). She also worked with other acclaimed European directors including Wim Wenders, Jean-Luc Godard and Fatih Akin. "Hanna Schygulla is an institution of German and European cinema," actress Alexandra Maria Lara, the president of the Ge...
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