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The debate about Günter Grass’s criticism of Israel: how political should artists be? Schleswig-Holstein: Germany’s northernmost region is becoming a magnet for online gamblers. Impoverished professors: a growing number of college teachers are struggling to make ends meet. East Germany’s institutionalized children: a belated apology for children's suffering in the past.
Nobel literature laureate Günter Grass unleashed a storm of protest after publishing a poem accusing Israel of endangering world peace - and of planning a nuclear strike against Iran.
What do Germans think of Günter Grass’s opinions? According to a survey in the Financial Times Deutschland, a majority agree with the ideas Grass has put forward.
Strictly speaking, online poker and other forms of gambling on the Internet are banned in Germany. But in March the country’s northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein, passed legislation that gives free rein to players. It’s a controversial decision, not least because of the growing number of gaming addicts riveted to their computer screens.
Germany prides itself on its education system - and that means well-qualified and well-paid teaching staff. In too many cases, however, lecturers are working on temporary contracts. And around half of all instructors have a net monthly salary of less than 1,000 euros.
The stories of abuse in children’s homes in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s are nothing new - but now the maltreatment and exploitation of institutionalized children in the former communist East is now also coming to light.
