“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 Read more »
Berlinale Celebrates with 400 Films
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 Read more »
Exclusive Look at DANK’s New Website

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 Read more »
Video of the Week! (2/3)
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 Read more »
Feb/Mar 2010 Journal Online

The latest edition of the German-American Journal is posted online to read or download. Many are calling this the best issue yet, so make sure you check it out.
A Redesign So Soon?
A couple days a go, I wrote a blog post announcing a brand new DANK.org was coming soon and that I would have more info in the coming weeks. Well, work on the new site is coming along quickly, and it looks like the design has been finalized. I know Read more »
Video of the Week! (1/27)
Hope – The Obama Musical I thought I would save this video to post tonight, as it fits with President Obama’s State of the Union Address. Less than a week ago, this German musical premiered in Frankfurt, and it follows the historic US Presidential Election of 2008.
Change Is Coming
We have some really exciting changes coming to DANK.org this year. Over the next several weeks I will be posting some details on the new DANK.org, which will definitely be getting huge redesign.