The Free University was founded in 1948 in what was then the American Sector of Berlin. The reason was that the venerable Humboldt University happened to be in the Soviet Sector, and had been taken over by the Soviet military government. Non-communist students had trouble even enrolling there, much less Read More …
The ZKM Center for Art and Media opened in 1997 in Karlsruhe, Germany, in the center section of this former factory building. Aside from being a museum, the ZKM includes Institutes for “Visual Media”, for “Music and Acoustics” and for “Media, Education and Economics”, which means that the whole place Read More …
Bad Hersfeld was only called “Hersfeld” until 1949, when they finally got state permission to use the coveted word Bad in their name. It is a town of 30,000 people in the eastern part of Hessen, conveniently located on the regional bicycle route R1 and also on the main railway Read More …