After three great years as DANK National’s webmaster, it is come time for me to make my exit. I am proud of what I was able to create for DANK over the last several years and as a result this decision wasn’t made lightly. There are exciting things I Read more »
The upcoming DANK National Convention got some positive attention in this weeks North Almanac… German-American convention set in South Hills By Deana Carpenter For The Almanac The South Hills will soon play host to German-Americans from across the country. The German American National Congress, known in German as Deutch Amerikanischer National Read more »
The German cuckoo clock Chalet style is the most popular of all the styles but the German cuckoo clocks come in many sizes and shapes. The chalet cuckoo style originated near the close of the nineteenth century in Switzerland not in Germany. Also during the end of the 19th century the Swiss Chalet style Read more »
While many living in Erzgebirge (ore mountains in saxony) make their living carving Nutcrackers and other finely crafted wood items, there are three distinct families that have started nutcracker manufacturing companies that have garnered them fame and respect throughout the world. The Steinbach family has been making their famous Steinbach nutcrackers for over two hundred Read more »
KELVINFILM, a Germany-based film production company sent us some information on an upcoming reality show they are working on and we thought some of our readers may be interested in participating. DANK is not involved in this project.
Here’s another Mashup…this time mixing Ausrian entertainer DJ Ötzi (you may know him from his popular cover version of the Bruce Channel song “Hey Baby”) and the Black Eyed Peas. Check out the video below for a surprisingly good mix of “I Gotta Feeling” and “Ich will mit dir fliegen” Read more »
I came across this interesting mashup of Nena’s “99 Luftballons” and 3 Culcha Candela songs (“Somma im Kiez”. “Solarenergie”, & “Partybus”) by Mashup-Germany and they go together very well. Have a listen…
I saw this played on “Anderson Cooper 360″ the other night and I had to post it here. This is a commercial for a German game that consists of a dackle (dachshund) that you feed what looks like a Play-Doh substance and try to be the person to collect it Read more »