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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

WWF urges stronger political alignment on key priorities: phasing out fossil fuels, ending ecosystem destruction and scaling up climate finance Bonn, Germany (12 June 2025) – As delegates convene 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 ...

While laying pipes at the Academic Museum of Art in Bonn, western Germany, construction workers made the surprising discovery of a 200-year-old cornerstone, which sheds light on the building’s origins ...

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