Topic: Germany
BERLIN (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed and 10 were seriously injured after panic broke out at a "Love Parade" music festival in Germany Saturday, police said. Overcrowding at an entrance gate to a former freight rail station where the ...
Veteran American singer Al Jarreau has been taken to a hospital in France with breathing problems. A hospital in the Alpine city of Gap says the 70-year-old fell ill before a concert Thursday at a jazz festival in the French town of ...
Pop singer Pink's tour bus catches fire during Germany tour; no injuriesPolice say a tour bus being used by the pop singer Pink caught fire on its way from Munich to Berlin, but there were no injuries. Bavarian police say a particle ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - For years Berlin's historic Friederichstadtpalast staged revue shows that seemed as old as the city itself. The famous theater in the heart of old East Germany even had a production called "100 years of Berlin." Now after years of ...
German big band leader, jazz musician Peter Herbolzheimer dies at 74Peter Herbolzheimer, a musician and big band leader who helped promote jazz in Germany, has died at 74. The head of the German Music Council, Peter Ortmann, told the ddp news agency ...
65 years after Auschwitz, Jewish survivor performs on stage with immigrant hip-hop bandEsther Bejarano says music helped keep her alive as a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz and in the years that followed. Now, 65 years after the liberation of the Nazi death ...
German punk pioneer and scandal queen Nina Hagen is writing a book about Jesus, she said on her website Thursday. The former hell-raiser, now 54, said she had come a long way from the atheism of her youth in communist East Germany, ...
There was a time when Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the Austrian conductor who turns 80 on Sunday, was vilified by the musical establishment in Vienna. Harnoncourt is one of the pioneers of what in the classical music world is known as "historical" or "period ...
Rocker Pete Doherty was hauled off stage at a weekend music festival in Germany after he began signing Nazi anthem "Deutschland, Deutschland ueber alles" during his set, reports said on Monday. Revellers at the on3 festival in Munich booed and shouted at ...
Rocker Peter Doherty was hauled off stage at a weekend music festival in Germany after he began signing Nazi anthem "Deutschland, Deutschland ueber alles" during his set, reports said on Monday. Revellers at the on3 festival in Munich booed and shouted at ...
