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Anne, a backpacker from Hannover, volunteered for five months in an orphanage and a hospital in Indonesia - a very rewarding experience.

The exciting movie Exit Marrakech by Oscar®-award winner Caroline Link runs in Sydney and Melbourne on April 9, during the special event Oriental Night. A discussion with Goethe Institute director Dr Arpad Sölter about the movie and the state of...

Thousands of Victorians are about to witness some real "Swissness", at the annual Swiss Festival at Melbourne's Queensbridge Square (Southbank). The six-hour event promises to be bigger and better than ever. An interview.

Moses Iten was born in Switzerland, lived in South-America and now in Australia. He is the co-founder of The Swiss Conspiracy, investigating hidden musical links within the diaspora and bringing their roots up-to-date.

Campaigners for a statue in Sydney honouring up to 200,000 women forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during the Second World War have been bombarded with correspondence from Japan opposing the plan.

Silvi is a 47 year old woman who gets dumped by her husband after decades of marriage. The film explores the challenges and opportunities a break-up offers.

Most German speaking migrants in Australia have a deep desire to pass on their language to their children. It's part of our heritage, of who we are, it connects us to our children and the place we once called home. But how does bilingual education...

The opening film Banklady was well recieved by the audience of the German Film Festival in Australia. The action film is based on a true story and set in West Germany during the 1960s. The star of the film Nadeshda Brennicke tells us more about he...

In February, the Swiss Club of Victoria celebrated its 115th anniversary. The club operates from its attractive club house in Melbourne's Flinders Lane and has various sub-groups, such as the four presented in this interview.

On Sunday the 6th of April, several thousand visitors will flock to the Swiss Festival at Queensbridge Square in Melbourne. It's the Swiss community's biggest yearly event in Australia, and promises numerous highlights, such as great food and a re...

In last week's program we talked to German actors about their movies. We chatted with an expert about luxurious ships and met a German couple who lives in the rainforest.

"Was für eine Woche!?" with CJ Delling weds Michelle Obama with the Cardinal of Limburg, gets knighted by Tony Abbott and switches off everything for all times in honour of "Earth Hour".

It's good to have big dreams but be careful how you make them come through. German actress Nadeshda Brennicke shows in her movie "Banklady" how it can go terribly wrong and how in real life she made it to the top.

Ann-Helena Schlüter is a young German-Swedish pianist who currently tours Australia. She tells Oliver Heuthe more about her studies of the famous composer in Leipzig and she explains why Bach's spirit is still around.    

Quitting the rat race for a whole year and traveling the world: For most people, this remains a dream. But a German journalist in Sydney, Karen Eriksen, decided to live the dream, by sailing from Europe to Australia, together with her husband and ...