While Bonn is known as a hot spot for Beethoven pilgrims, composer Robert Schumann is celebrated there too. Schummannfest director Markus Schuck told DW about his influence on American director ...

''The eyes of the world will be on you, and you carry a heavy responsibility,'' the UN special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told Afghan delegates at the first meeting on the future of Afghanistan in the ...

On the stage of Bonn’s stark modern opera house, beside the majestic river Rhine, Dirk Kaftan, the charismatic conductor of the Beethoven Orchestra, is welcoming the audience to the first concert in ...

The 62nd session of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB62) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded in Bonn on Friday early hours with a palpable sense of frustration. The ...

Climate negotiators are meeting for the first time since governments agreed to set up a fund to pay for damage wrought by the fossil fuels polluting the planet. Diplomats from around the globe will ...

He’s the towering musical genius who didn’t let his deafness prevent him from becoming one of the world’s greatest composers. Ludwig van Beethoven may have been born 250 years ago, but his story of ...

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