Over 300 years ago, German immigrants crossed the Atlantic to reach, among other places, Pennsylvania. Their language and culture continues to influence their descendants, as DW correspondent Oliver Sallet discovered.
The list of German words that have emigrated to other languages is long: “Zeitgeist”, “Schadenfreude”, “Kindergarden”, “Katzenjammer”, “Sauerkraut” and even “Doppelgänger” are only a few examples.
Gerasimos Bekas is on the scene when the gardening season officially begins in Berlin. Rather than hiding away behind hedges and fences, Berliners dig and plant together.
Roughly 8 million Germans move house every year. So what's it like? DW's Cristina Burack shares some quirks of finding a new place to live in Germany, and learns that Germans are not afraid to be hands-on in the process.
