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The Local's guide to Karneval

Allow The Local to explain why Karneval's boozy zaniness isn't just for Catholics or people from the Rhineland. Who needs naked Samba dancers in Rio when you have drunk Germans in clown suits in Cologne, right?
 

Karneval – the schedule

The Local's Karneval guide makes sure you're in time to get sloshed.
 

Karneval – the history

The Local's Karneval guide delves into the traditions of Teutonic debauchery.
 

Karneval – the societies

The Local's Karneval guide separates Germany's jesters from its fools.
 

Karneval – the glossary

You might know Alaaf and Helau, but The Local's Karneval guide will clue you in on Quetschenbüggel and S'goht degege.
 

Indie cinemas battle for Berlin's spotlight

Indie cinemas are a dying breed the world over... except in Berlin, home to nearly 60 small arthouse and neighbourhood venues. As Alice Harrison reports, some are even getting the red carpet treatment at this year's Berlinale.
 

Bahn CEO intervenes after railway gives teen wine as redress

Deutsche Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube has personally intervened after a 16-year-old girl thrown off a train on one of the coldest nights of the year was compensated by the company with a bottle of wine.
 

The Best of the Rhineland in Februrary

This month Rhine-online, the Rhineland's leading English-language website, offers some Karneval insight, uncovers a Mapplethorpe retrospective in Düsseldorf, and dines the Michelin-way in Königswinter.
 

Guttenberg calls for NATO reform, blasts Iran

Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg called for quick reform of the NATO security alliance on Sunday, claiming "we talk too much and achieve too little."
 

Munich S-Bahn victim may have thrown the first punch

The two youths who allegedly beat to death businessman Dominik Brunner at a Munich S-Bahn station had been drinking but it was Brunner who threw the first punch, news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
 

Swiss data to be bought this weekend: report

German tax investigators were in France this weekend to buy the now-notorious stolen Swiss bank data on 1,500 alleged tax cheats, magazine Focus reported Saturday.
 

Conservatives taking a battering on atomic energy, minister warns

Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen has intensified his calls for a quick nuclear energy phase out, warning his conservative colleagues the issue was politically damaging, daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported Saturday.
 

At least 94 Catholic abuse cases suspected: report

The abuse scandal in Germany's Catholic Church has continued to widen with at least 94 clerics and laypeople suspected of committing sexual abuse since 1995, news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
 

Portnoy's Podcast: Roger Boyes, the Pinkelwurst and Guido

The Local is proud to present the second podcast of Portnoy's Stammtisch, our regular column about life in Germany. Can Roger Boyes beat Portnoy and Konrad at their own game?
 

Don't mess with Bavaria

Loud, proud and fiercely independent, Bavaria is Germany's Texas. But are laptops starting to beat out lederhosen? Lois Jones takes the former kingdom's temperature.
 
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