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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 ...
News Germany » Bonn: Low river level grounds hotel ship in Germany's Bonn
A hotel ship has run aground on the Rhine in the German city of Bonn due to low water levels in the river, the fire brigade said on Thursday. The ship, carrying 75 passengers and 40 crew members, all ...
News Germany » Bonn: The (new) Bonn identity
BONN, Germany — Bonn’s reborn. Again. The quiet, cozy university city on the banks of the Rhine experienced its first unlikely reincarnation when it became the capital of West Germany after World War ...
News Germany » Bonn: West Germany: C'est Si Bonn
Under the disapproving gaze of two stuffed giraffes, West Germany’s leaders met in 1948 at Bonn’s zoological museum to draft their new constitution. Far from welcoming their decision to make Bonn West ...
News Germany » Bonn: Germany: Fast Drive to Bonn
A black, Czech-built Tatra limousine pulled up outside Bonn’s White House, the Villa Hammerschmidt. Out stepped two East German diplomats, chilled from their unannounced eleven-hour journey over the ...
News Germany » Bonn: How Beethoven’s suffering created some of the world’s most joyous music
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 ...
News Germany » Bonn: Beethoven’s Bonn: A musical tour of the composer’s home city
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 ...