Husum is the capital of the Kreis (district) Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The town was the birthplace of the novelist Theodor Storm, who coined the epithet "the grey town by the sea". It is also the home of the annual international piano festival Raritäten der Klaviermusik founded in 1986.
Hildesheim[ˈhɪldəsˌhaɪ̯m](listen) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim, about 30 km (19 mi) southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of the Leine River.
Arno Schmidt was a German author and translator. He is little known outside of German-speaking areas, in part because his works present a formidable challenge to translators. Although he is not one of the popular favourites within Germany, critics and writers often consider him to be one of the most important German-language writers of the 20th century.
Eckernförde is a German town in Schleswig-Holstein, Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde, on the coast of the Baltic Sea approximately 30 km north-west of Kiel. The population is about 23,000. Eckernförde is a popular tourist destination in northern Germany.
Wannsee is a locality in the southwestern Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Germany. It is the westernmost locality of Berlin. In the quarter there are two lakes, the larger Großer Wannsee and the Kleiner Wannsee, are located on the River Havel and are separated only by the Wannsee Bridge. The larger of the two lakes covers an area of 2.7 km2 (1.0 sq mi) and has a maximum depth of 9 m (30 ft).
Nieder-Erlenbach is since 1 August 1972 the northernmost borough (Ortsbezirk) of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Lorsch is a town in the Bergstraße district in Hessen, Germany, 60 km south of Frankfurt. Lorsch is well known for the Lorsch Abbey, which has been named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Fürth is a community and a state-recognized recreational resort (Erholungsort) in the Bergstraße district in Hesse, Germany.
The Deutsche Internationale Schule Johannesburg (DSJ) is a German international school in Parktown, Johannesburg.
The German International School Washington D.C. (GISW), formerly Deutsche Schule Washington D.C. (DSW), is a private, co-educational school in Potomac, Maryland which provides students with an international perspective by combining both U.S. and German academic education. The school teaches students from over 20 different countries side by side and gives them the opportunity to earn a High School Diploma and the German International Abitur. For children age 2 through 12th grade. Knowledge of German is not required for admission to preschool and School Entry Level programs.
The German European School Manila ("GESM") is a non-profit international school offering the full K-12 program in Manila. It is an IB World School, a Cambridge international school, a UNESCO-affiliated school and a two-time recipient of the "Excellent German School Abroad" seal from German federal authorities.
Education in Hamburg covers the whole spectrum from kindergarten, primary education, secondary education, and higher education in Hamburg. The German states are primarily responsible for the educational system in Germany, and therefore the Behörde für Schule und Berufsbildung is the administrative agency in Hamburg. The Behörde für Wissenschaft und Forschung has the oversight for universities and colleges.
The Bremen school shooting was a school shooting that occurred on 20 June 1913 at St Mary's Catholic School (St-Marien-Schule) in Walle, a quarter of Bremen, Germany. The gunman, 29-year-old unemployed teacher Heinz Schmidt from Sülze, indiscriminately shot at students and teachers, killing five girls and wounding more than 20 other people before being subdued by school staff. He was never tried for the crime and sent directly to an asylum where he died in 1932.
Deutsche Schule Lissabon is a private German international school situated in the Lumiar district of Lisbon, Portugal. Founded in 1848, the Deutsche Schule Lissabon is the oldest German school in the Iberian Peninsula.
The German School London is a school based in the grounds of Douglas House in Petersham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is accredited by the German government's Central Agency for German Schools Abroad, as a "Deutsche Auslandsschule".
Schmidt's Girls College is an international German school for Christian and Muslim girls, located in East Jerusalem. It was founded in 1886 and approximately 500 pupils attend the school today. It includes a grundschule program, as well as the Deutsche Internationale Abiturprüfung program. It also offers a Tawjihi program. Although it is owned and supported by the German Association of the Holy Land, it is currently in the care of the international convent of the Sisters of the Congregation of Jesus. Lessons are taught in German and the spoken language outside of class is English. The teaching staff is composed of both Arab and German teachers.
The German International School Cape Town is a German international school in Cape Town, South Africa. The school has English and German streams, available for primary school, middle school, and high school. The German stream is available for grades 1–12 while the English stream is available for grades 5–12.
The Goethe-Schule Buenos Aires belongs to the Goethe School Association, a nonprofit Civil Association that brings together the parents of students. Since it is a German School Abroad (DAS), it is sponsored by the Federal Republic of Germany. It is a recognized cultural exchange school that teaches and promotes the German language. It is located in the town of Boulogne, in the province of Buenos Aires, 20 km north of the center of the City of Buenos Aires and includes three levels: kindergarten, primary school and secondary school. The school has more than 1500 students in the three levels. A fourth section of the school is the Humboldt Academy, an educational institution dedicated to teaching foreign languages, mainly German, where courses for adults and children are taught outside of the school’s regular classes.
Arno Stern is a German-born French pedagogue and researcher.
