Not everybody was equally pleased about swimming in the freezing water, as almost 90 brave amateur athletes met to show off their stamina in a winter swim challenge on the river Elbe in Dresden, on Sunday, February 7.
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Berlinale Celebrates with 400 Films
“The birthday cake of nearly 400 films has been baked,” announces festival director Dieter Kosslick. The 60th Berlin International Film Festival begins on 11 February. The flurry of flashbulbs, the red carpet, the film stars: the Berlinale promises ten days of great cinema in the German capital. The 60th birthday of the festival, which first saw the light of the film world in 1951, is [...] Read more »
Germany in good form ahead of Olympics
The German ski-jumping team showed that they are in fine form ahead of the Vancouver Winter Olympics, which open on February 12, when they won a team World Cup event at home in Willingen on Saturday 6 February.
Michael Neumayer, Pascal Bodmer, Martin Schmitt and Michael Uhrmann secured Germany’s first victory since January 2005 with 965.5 points, beating Norway into second place.
German coach Werner [...] Read more »
Exclusive Look at DANK’s New Website
by Stephen - Webmaster February 6, 2010 » No Comments.
Progress on the next version of DANK’s National website is moving along nicely, and has moved past the main design stage. There is still a lot of work to be done before it can be launched. Since the design is basically finalized, I thought some of you would be interested in seeing what the future of DANK.org looks like.
Video of the Week! (2/3)
by Stephen - Webmaster February 3, 2010 » No Comments.
Wenn Ich Mit Meinem Dackel
Over on our Discussion Forum there were some posts with links to various YouTube Dackel videos, so I thought it would be great to feature one of them as a Video of the Week. This video is of André Rieu & the Johann Strauss Orchestra performing with Karl Moik at Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna in July 2006.