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Big Brother is watching you: German counter-terrorism Prof. Dr. Grimm already explained why he criticizes the idea of banning the NPD. Now, Oliver Heuthe asks the former judge of the highest court in Germany how international terrorism has impacted civil liberties in Germany.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: The Vanished Musicians 3 In this program we will find out how Australias Musica Viva came into being. But thats really the end of the story, when Richard Goldner and Walter Dullo organised a memorial concert for Dullos teacher Simon Pullmann, who died in Treblinka in 1945... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Germany`s Christmas Eve is great Stephanie from the Templa School in Melbourne loves the German Christmas traditions. The fourteen-year-old student and her friends Laura and Ellen have been to Germany, celebrating Christmas Eve. Niels Büngen talks with the students about their e... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hope for the Tasmanian Devil They are the symbol of Tasmania: the Tasmanian Devils. But now, the species is threatened by a facial tumour disease, which has drastically reduced the population. Niels Büngen visits the Tasmania Devil Conservation Park and talks to park directo... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Germany fights right-wing extremism The right-wing terror cell NSU has shocked Germany. The abbreviation stands for national socialist underground. It is believed, that this small group killed 10 people during the last decade. But how can the German government deal with Neo Nazis th... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website About greatest hits and the future of radio Is radio a thing of the past? Will it be replaced by online radio stations and online services e.g. Twitter and YouTube? Oliver Heuthe, Pamela Rauleder and our guest Diana Frankovic from Fritz-Radio in Berlin talk with callers in Australia about t... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gina Rinehart is the richest woman in Australia AC/DC make millions, every year with rock music and filled stadiums. Quite impressive, but peanuts, compared to the Forbes list of billionaires. The new number one is Gina Rinehart. The mining entrepreneur from Perth is worth 9 billion Dollars. Ad... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: Cityscapes – Blog Twelve cities, twelve subject matters, that's the base for a global online project, produced by the Goethe Institute. 36 artists blogged for 12 months, using photos, audio, video and text. Trudi Latour talks to webmaster Jochen Gutsch about the ou... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: The Vanished Musicians 2 Dr Albrecht Dümling talks about the Spivacovski brothers, classical musicians of high caliber, who immigrated to Australia in the 1930. As victims of Nazi persecution their story forms part of Dr Dümling "Die Verschwundenen Musiker". When the pi... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who`s at the top of Australia`s rich list in 2011? Adrian Plitzco and Oliver Heuthe talk about people who earned most of the money, in Australia.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Erotic aspects in flowers Photographer Eva Rugel has already shown her art in exhibitions in Berlin and Japan. Rugel, who is originally from Freiburg, has finished her study at Melbourner´s NMIT for Photoimaging. Her final work is currently part of the exhibition "Monocu... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to protect your "name"? If you want to start a business, it is not only necessary to have a great idea and product, it is also essential to have a great name. A catchy name and a smart logo set you apart from your competition and help to attract customers. However, once ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website About twelve brave sisters and the commercialization of Christmas In todays letter from Sydney, Wolfgang Müller tells us about a famous Christmas concert that might not be for free anymore. Furthermore, we hear about twelve brave sisters who fight against coal seam gas extraction near their convent.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Famous Germans in Australia: father and son on the high sea In our new series we discover prominent Germans who are part of the Australian history. The first episode is about the story of a father and son from East Prussia. Reinhold and Georg Foster sailed around the world with Captain James Cook. Althoug... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German art treasures in Australia In 19th Century, German painters were highly esteemed in Australia - in particular in Victoria. Yet some decades later those German artists were almost forgotten. Art historian Beatrix Ahrens is working at the University of Freiburg. She has done ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Family happiness, just an illusion? More and more people are getting divorced in Australia and Germany. Many people prefer living in a shared house or as a single rather than starting a family. Is the domestic happiness a thing of the past, or do we still have happy families in Aust... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Australia, keep on dreaming of free dental care More and more Australians cant afford a visit to the dentist and more children are having problems with their teeth. The latest reports on dental health call on the government to introduce a national dental scheme. Oliver Heuthe and Pamela Raulede... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do we need a state insurance for the dentist? More and more Australians cant afford a visit to the dentist and more children are having problems with their teeth. The latest reports on dental health call on the government to reintroduce a national dental scheme. Oliver Heuthe and Pamela Raule... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Euro crisis: get rid of Greece Why does the Euro struggle that much? And what is the last resort to safe the Euro? Economist Dr. Oliver Marc Hartwich sees several problems Europes politicians face now. Wolfgang Müller talks with him about the time bomb Greece and the future of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: The Vanished Musicians 1 Dr Albrecht Duemling is musicologist, music critic, curator of the world renowned exhibition "degenerate art". After many years of intensive research, he just published his latest book, "Die Verschwundenen Musiker". It deals with the mainly but no... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German easy-going dudes: travelling for free Marcel and Frauke are having a great time down under and they dont pay for their accommodation. They are testing Australian hotels, travel and adventure tours for free. They publish their experiences on their blog. Patrick Wauthier speaks with the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Six white boomers – in German! In year 8, the students of the Viewbank College in Rosanna learn German. The students also like singing German songs. The class and her teacher Clare perform one of the most popular Australian Christmas songs - in German.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The success story of a german couple and their bratwurst 20 years ago, a newspaper ad changed the life of butcher Elmar and his wife Anette. Spontaneously, the Dierens took the chance and sold their butchery to start a new life in Perth. The couple tells Sindi Montero about their difficult start and how... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A license plate or a flute: the best Christmas presents, ever The same procedure every year: what is the best Christmas present? A book, a DVD or something more fancy? It is especially hard to find the right present for family and friends living in Germany. However, some of our listeners dont struggle with t... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An icy Australian centenary Douglas Mawson was two years old, when his parents immigrated to Australia. But instead of the heat of the outback, he was more attracted by the icy cold of the South Pole. 100 Years ago, he led a scientific expedition during the Heroic Age of Ant... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: Goethe remixed Trudi Latour talks to the web master of the Goethe Institute, Jochen Gutsch about an international web project, called Goethe.rmx. The name doesnt only relate to the organization hosting the platform, but also to the content, the ballad Der König... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hildegard Knef is back She wasnt exactly the norm. During the uptight 50s in Germany, Hildegard Knef didnt do what others did to please. Her charm was anything but cute and tame but invoked a long bygone era of glamour that seemed to transcend idealisms and norms. Knef ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Let` s go to Australia – for true love Do Germans still emmigrate to Australia? Or is the migration boom a thing of the past? Wolfgang Müller has taken a look at Germans who immigrated for different reasons. Every week, he talked to someone who has left Germany in the pursuit of happ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Animal ethics: are we allowed to experiment on animals? Rabbits with red eyes or apes with cut open sculls - even in 2011 cosmetics and medicine is still tested on animals. Many researchers claim, that we wouldnt have made medical progress without animal tests. After all, is it right that scientists us... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will handwriting disappear? In the 21 century, people primarily communicate electronically. We write applications on the computer and we send e-mails to public authorities. Except for recipes, postcards or diaries, there are hardly any hand written documents. Will the handw... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Royals in Australia – again! Australia is going to receive royal visitors, this week, again. The Crown Princely Couple of Denmark is visiting the bride`s home. How excited is the Danish community? And how will the royals be received by other Australians? Oliver Heuthe spoke w... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Power struggle in the South China Sea The conflict had been kept behind closed doors. But during his last visit to Australia, US President Barack Obama threw that door wide open: America is ready to openly interfere in the conflict over the Spratly Islands. Australia could play an imp... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: The Devil and the Princess Princess Mary was born in the home of the Tasmanian devil. And this endangered animal is the subject of the conversation between Trudi Latour and Ute Wegmann, who recently published the book Wild Whiskers and Tender Tales, together with Dr Anthony... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A German photographer in the outback His photography is pure and plain. Tobias Titz from Germany lives and works as photographer in Melbourne. For almost ten years he has a passion for portraits. With his Polaroid camera he sometimes discovers the outback. His latest project is about... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beethoven comes to Canberra An exceptional exhibition of European culture is set to open in Australia on Saturday. Handwritten shows the manuscripts of Beethoven, Bach, Goethe und Mozart. Usually the hand written exhibits are part of the Berlin national library. But now the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Germans: after the Second World War in South-Australia Peter Monteath is editor of the book „Germans". It tells the story of the first Germans who moved to South-Australia. Jenny Beyen speaks with Peter Monteath about the book. We are broadcasting one episode every week. This week, they talk about t... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In the thick of it: Biophilia – everyone wants to love a living creature This is the concept of life on a German farm in Solingen. The therapist Kerstin Wenzel combines the therapeutic work with animals. No matter if one likes Lamas, donkeys or Jacob sheep, Kertins Wenzel finds the right therapeutical counterpart for h... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sustainable building – DIY Saving the environment while building houses is possible nowadays. To turn the construction industry in to a more environmentally friendly business can save resources and energy. But how does it work? This is the topic of our new series. Christoph... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Let` s go to Australia – with a German newspaper Do Germans still emmigrate to Australia? Or is the migration boom a thing of the past? Wolfgang Müller takes a look at Germans who immigrate for different reasons. Every week, he talks to someone who has left Germany in the pursuit of happiness d... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living abroad: how to share German traditions with the children? How to make sure that future generations still identify with the German culture? Many German expats ask themselves: how can I combine the Australian culture with my German one? How to keep German traditions, such as celebrating Christmas Eve, aliv... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In conversation: Petra Maitz Petra Maitz is a visual artist who works in cooperation with a Prof of Biochemistry and a Prof of Reconstructive Surgery, creating crocheted corals and vaginas. Whats more, she connects these works conceptually not only with science but also with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website G'Day Mister President! Oliver Heuthe sums up the Australian press: everyone talks about Barack Obama`s visit in Australia. Beside his speech at the Australian parliament the press is also interested in the politicians` wardrobe. The Age noticed that Governor-General Que... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Victoria Prize for Swiss researcher from Melbourne 22 Years ago, professor Andreas Strasser immigrated to Australia. This week, he was honoured with the Victoria Prize for his research in cancer. Oliver Heuthe talked with him about his prize, cancer and his passion for soccer.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Australian Students in Switzerland Five Australian students spent one year at the University of Fribourg, Lausanne, Neuchatel and Zurich to study French or German. As part of their social studies, they researched a topic that was discussed by the Swiss at the time of their stay. He... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Insider: steady markets in Australia? Asia is considered the market of the future. But Australia is also an interesting place for internal investors. The German company Merck is the oldest pharmaceutical company in the world. For over 100 years the company has been operating in Austra... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Germans: National Socialists and refugees Peter Monteath is editor of the book „Germans". It tells the story of the first Germans who moved to South-Australia. Jenny Beyen speaks with Peter Monteath about the book. We are broadcasting one episode every week. This week, they talk about t... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Student Exchange Programs Christan Schneider, Coordinator Science and Education, is based at the Swiss Embassy in Canberra. He works with SAAN (the Swiss-Australian Academic Network), and communicates with Australian and Swiss universities about their student exchange prog... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Let` s go to Australia – where the work–life balance is better Do Germans still emmigrate to Australia? Or is the migration boom a thing of the past? Wolfgang Müller takes a look at Germans who immigrate for different reasons. Every week, he talks to someone who has left Germany in the pursuit of happiness ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sustainable building – Australia's star rating system Saving the environment while building houses is possible nowadays. Turning the construction industry in to a more environmentally friendly business can save resources and energy. But how does it work? This is the topic of our new series. Christoph... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Goodbye civil servants? Secret documents from Sydney suggest the planned privatization of a large number of penal institutions. Already, private security companies run a few jails, but could they cope with sex offenders and murderers? Some of our listeners tell Oliver He... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In the thick of it: Germany’s next über-host? Everyone knows Thomas Gottschalk. No? For two decades the man with the weird suits and blonde curls has been Germanys preeminent talk show host. After a stunt-gone-wrong, Gottschalk recently announced his departure from the popular Saturday night ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In the thick of it: Germany’s next über-host? Everyone knows Thomas Gottschalk. No? For two decades the man with the weird suits and blonde curls has been Germanys preeminent talk show host. After a stunt-gone-wrong, Gottschalk recently announced his departure from the popular Saturday night ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In conversation: Certificate of Excellence for German School At this years November festival, the German International School had something special to celebrate. Germanys Consul General Dr Steinbach presented the Quality Certificate Excellent German School Abroad, signed by the President of the Federal Repu... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Palace of Tears in art: a piece of German history in Melbourne The Palace of Tears is a building in Berlin - now it is in Melbourne, too. The German artist Henriette Kassay-Schuster created a video installation about this special piece of German history. Together with the Australian artist Hermione Merry, she... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melbourne’s forgotten sights: Parliament (2/2) German speaker Rita Jenkins is one of Melbournes special tour guides, a so called City Greeter. Being a volunteer she takes visitors to the most interesting places in town - free of charge! We became curious about her knowledge of forgotten places... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Traces of English missionaries: the Torres Straight Islands The Torres Straight Islands, in the north of Australia, have an exceptional history. In 1871 English missionaries came to the archipelago. Nowadays, you still find traces of the missionaries` impact on the islands. Stefan Armbruster visits the isl... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Germans: during the First World War in South-Australia Peter Monteath is editor of the book „Germans". It tells the story of the first Germans who moved to South-Australia. Jenny Beyen speaks with Peter Monteath about the book. We are boradcasting one episode every week. This week, they talk about t... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Insider: overpriced housing Living in Australia is expensive. Despite the current downturn on the housing market, Australia remains one of the most expensive countries to rent. Up to 60 % of the income is spent on covering the monthly rent. Nicolas Perren is a Swiss arc... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Let` s go to Australia – thanks to laptop & and mouse Do Germans still emmigrate to Australia? Or is the migration boom over? Wolfgang Müllers takes a look at Germans who immigrate for different reasons. Every week, he talks to someone who has left Germany for the pursuit of happiness down under. To... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sustainable building – Australia is on to it Saving the environment while building houses -is possible nowadays. To turn the construction industry in to a more environmentally friendly business can save resources and energy. But how does it work? This is the topic of our new series. The firs... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Money, money, money, must be funny, in a rich man’s world Greece is not the only one struggling with debt. More and more average joes are spending more money than they have. Oliver Heuthe and Patrick Wauthier talk to listeners about their experiences and opinions. How much debt is too much? Or should no-... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doris Eichholzer, Bodybuilder Doris was trained as a nutritionist and now successfully applies this knowledge to her training in bodybuilding. Doris Eichholzer recently gained the second placement for New South Wales when competing with the Natural Body Building Federation and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Girlpower made in Germany: the boxer Alesia Graf A new German sport star for Australia - the female boxer Alesia Graf. In her career, the 31 year old boxer has won many titles, including two World Championships. Oliver Heuthe talks to the Belarus-born athlete and finds out why she wont even stop... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SBS Your language app – whenever, wherever SBS has launched the new SBS Your language mobile application. It enables you to listen to your favourite SBS radio programs anytime and anywhere, on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. You can listen to live streamings of a program or get Audio on dem... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Youth Mailbox: German Rocksongs Once a month Switch On broadcasts a brand new project of the AGTV and SBS German Radio - the Youth Mailbox. Students are able to produce their own features, and were going to get them on air! This time, it is all about Rock music. The Catholic Lad... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website „Anonymous“ – the Shakespeare myth in cinemas Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth are just some of the famous plays by English poet William Shakespeare. Shakespeares work has been entertaining the world for over four centuries. For almost the same amount of time, there have been rumours about ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: Yeshe and Cye – World Music (2/2) World Musician Yeshe Reiners and his musical partner on the violin, Cye Wood introduce us to two songs, recorded in our studio at SBS by our clever technician Rod Monson. One deals with freedom fighter Jean Batailleur from Quebec, who fought again... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschaftsinsider - saving the Euro Eurozone leaders fear that should Greece deliver a "no" in a national vote on last weeks bailout package it may plunge the country into a disorderly default and spread financial contagion to Italy and Spain. But leaving the Euro is more than Gree... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melbourne’s forgotten sights: Parliament (1/2) German speaker Rita Jenkins is one of Melbournes special tour guides, a so called City Greeter. Being a volunteer she takes visitors to the most interesting places in town - free of charge! We became curious about her knowledge of forgotten places... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poetry Slam – Poetic arts 2.0 Reading out poems is so last century - today, theres Poetry Slam. In a Poetry Slam, the contestants have to present a self written text within a short time. Michael Jakob is such a Poetry Slammer. He tells Adrian Plizco about the art of Poetry Sla... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melbourne Cup - the race that stops a nation One of the worlds most prestigious horse races is over: the Melbourne Cup. For the 151st time, the race took place in Melbournes suburb Flemington. This years winner was the French horse Dunaden. He won in a spectacular photo-finish. Jenny Beyen a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Insider: Fair Work Australia Qantas is flying again, but the debate about the strike and lock-out is not over yet. The dispute left hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded at airports around the world. Protecting publics interests in situations like this is one of the go... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Germans: art and science Peter Monteath is editor of the book „Germans. It tells the story of the first Germans who moved to South-Australia. Jenny Beyen speaks with Peter Monteath about the book. We are sending one episode every week. This week, they talk about German ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Qantas’ strike-struggle Qantas refused to bring domestic and international passengers to their destinations - on purpose, one could say. Qantas is struggling with unions in Australia, so the passengers had to stay put. Oliver Heuthe talks to his colleague Patrick Wauthie... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Close-down at Deutsche Welle – the end of an era On the last weekend of October, Deutsche Welle broadcasted in German for the last time. The program is now aired on the internet only. This change is the result of financial constraints and recent developments in international media and technology... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melbourne’s forgotten sights: skyscrapers and art German speaker Rita Jenkins is one of Melbournes special tour guides, a so called City Greeter. Being a volunteer she takes visitors to the most interesting places in town - free of charge! We became curious about her knowledge of forgotten places... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Germans: about missionary and aborigines Peter Monteath is editor of the book „Germans. It tells the story of the first Germans who moved to South-Australia. Jenny Beyen speaks with Peter Monteath about the book. We are sending one episode every week. This week, they talk about German ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Camp over? The Occupy Melbourne movement For almost a week, the supporters of Occupy Melbourne camped on City Square. On Friday, the camp was shut down by the police. Some people were arrested, a few were even injured. Both police and protesters blame each other for the violence. Christi... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly review October 17 - 22, 2011 - The week in hindsight. A summary of highlights, interviews and features of the past six programs. Broadcast every Sunday night.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gaddafis death as a chance for Libya Libyas Ex-dictator Gaddafi is dead. That was announced by the Libyan Interim National Council. People in Bengasi and Tripolis celebrated this event. Adrian Plitzco talks to his colleague Patrick about the reactions of politician worldwide and poss... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Schaubühne Berlin – a German highlight at the Melbourne Festival The world renowned theatre group Schaubühne Berlin takes part in this year 's Melbourne Festival. They are presenting the play Hedda Gabler by the Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen, an absolute highlight of the festival. Adrian Plitzco visited a reh... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melbourne’s forgotten sights: Flinders Lane & Collins Street German speaker Rita Jenkins is one of Melbournes special tour guides, a so called City Greeter. Being a volunteer she takes visitors to the most interesting places in town - free of charge! We became curious about her knowledge of forgotten places... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The sunny side of car racing – the World Solar Challenge The Australian car race World Solar Challenge pits up to 40 solar cars against each other on a race from Darwin to Adelaide. One of the contenders is a team from the German University of Bochum. Their car, the Solar World Gran Turismo, is designed... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Insider: Slovakia and the Euro-crisis The Slovak government has played a special and rather tragic role in the EU's struggle with the Euro-crisis. Wolfgang Müller speaks with political scientist Stefan Auer from Melbourne's La Trobe University about the historic background.  ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A new German soccer star für Australia The German soccer star Ariane Hingst has been more successful than most of her male colleagues. She has won the World Cup and Euro Cup several times and is now seeking a new challenge in Australia. In October, Hingst signed a contract with the New... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Zealand fears oil-catastrophe For two weeks now, a container ship is loosing oil at New Zealand's east coast. Up to 400 tonnes of oil already ran into the sea. The stricken ship is about to break apart and sink. Experts are trying to pump oil out of the ship but the weather ma... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Occupy Wall Street – protests against banks and greed From New York to Nairobi, and Madrid to Melbourne, demonstrators around the world have taken to the streets in a show of support for the US based Occupy Wall Street movement. They are rallying against corporate greed on a global scale, but they ar... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Millions for myki – and still unsafe? A couple of years ago, Melbourne was going to make transport-ticketing fair, safe and easy. Hundreds of millions were invested into the myki-system. Now experts found, that the high-tech solution can be hacked. One of them, cryptography-expert Dav... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melbourne’s forgotten sights: Forum-Cinema and Graffiti-Street German speaker Rita Jenkins is one of Melbournes special tour guides, a so called City Greeter. Being a volunteer she takes visitors to the most interesting places in town - free of charge! We became curious about her knowledge of forgotten places... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: Marina Shine – Deputy Director Goethe Institute Marina Shine is the deputy director of the Goethe Institute and the director of the language department. She talked to Trudi Latour about the courses on offer, the participants and the philosophy behind the Goethe Institutes successful approach to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: Dr Arpad Sölter Formerly the head of the department of Strategy and Evaluation at the Goethe-Instituts head office in Munich, Dr Arpad Sölter arrived in Australia in September 2011. He had hardly time to move in as the new director of the Goethe-Institut Austral... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mad Square: 7 New Objectivity and “degenerate” art By the mid 1920s a new style emerged that came to be known as Neue Sachlichkeit or New Objectivity. In this last part of the serious Dr Jacqueline Strecker guides us through this room and the one entitled degenerate art, the name stemming from the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website European Day of Languages It serves to further the understanding between peoples in a multicultural world and has been celebrated in Europe since 2001. In 2011 the Goethe Institute and its partner organisations from France, Italy and Spain got together in Sydney to introdu... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Swiss Expat Congress2 The Congress of the "Swiss-abroad" was held in Lugano this year. Rudolf Wyder, The Director of the agency (ASO) explains its networking role among the Swiss within and outside Switzerland. Councellor, Derrick Widmer, explains the funding and fut... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Swiss Expat Congress 2 The Congress of the "Swiss-abroad" was held in Lugano this year. Rudolf Wyder, The Director of the agency (ASO) explains its networking role among the Swiss within and outside Switzerland. Councellor, Derrick Widmer, explains the funding and fut... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fiction and reality: the solar-car Tim Skerra from the German University of Bochumdreams of cars - of solar cars, which make no noise and don't need any petrol or gas. How close are scientists to building those cars as a mass-produced item? Christian Froelicher talks to Tim Skerra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Euro 2012 and the hooligans The Euro 2012 starts in June next year. Will the hosts Poland and Ukraine be able to hold a peaceful soccer party? Niels Büngen talks to hooligan expert Maurice Illi about the Euro 2012.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Legal or illegal? The never-ending argument about cannabis A 14-year old Australian is in investigative custody in Bali. Indonesian police says, he bought cannabis from a drug dealer on the streets. The public authorities in Australia and Indonesia are now arguing about the legal consequences for the teen... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thomas Broich and the dark side of the German Bundesliga For several years, Thomas Broich played football in the German Bundesliga. But after a while, his play became worse, the media started banging on him and he wanted to end his career. He then decided to give football one last try - in Australia. Si... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: Yeshe and Cye – World Music Singer/songwriter Yeshe Reiners left his home in Germany at 16 to learn about the music of Africa. Since then hes been playing all across the world, integrating the different styles and instruments into his own evocative songs. Hes just released h... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Swiss Expat Congress 2011 The Congress of the Swiss-Abroad was held in Lugano, in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. Federal elections will be held soon and two candidates, Helen Freiermuth (currently living in China) and Corina Hemmi-Pleisch talk about their diffic... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Max & Moritz in Melbourne At the Fringe Festival in Melbourne this year is a German classic: „Max & Moritz. It is a mix of play and musical with puppets and real actors. The puppeteer Megan Cameron chose this old story of Wilhelm Busch about two naughty boys because she ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The idea of conceptual art Olav Nicolai was born in Berlin and is a conceptual artist. At the moment, he is showing his work in Melbourne. With his exhibition, he wants to show people the idea of conceptual art and make them become a part of it. Patrick Wauthier talked to O... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Insider: occupy Wallstreet For two weeks now, people are protesting in New York against social inequality. The main theme of the protests: Occupy Wallstreet. They demand higher taxes for the wealthy and criticise the acquisitiveness of many banks. Wolfgang Müller talks to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Youth Mailbox: Visiting Germany Once a month Switch On broadcasts a brand new project of the AGTV and SBS German Radio - the Youth Mailbox. Students are able to produce their own features, and were going to get them on air! This time, Kim talks about visiting her grandparents in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German Metal in Melbourne – the band Blind Guardian The Metal-Band Blind Guardian was found in the German cities Krefeld und Meerbusch 27 years ago. But they do not only have fans in Germany, they are very successful in Australia, too. At the moment, they are touring Down Under for the second time.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kids have rights – a radio play by the German Saturday Schule Going to school, having time to play and meeting friends - these are some rights of children all over the world. At least, this is how it should be. But there are still a lot of countries in which children have to work. The students of the German ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschaftsinsider-History of indigenous Australians Analysis of a 100-year-old lock of hair has shown that Aboriginal Australians were the first to separate from other humans in Africa tens-of-thousands of years ago. Dr Peter Forster from Munster University in Germany says the journey to Australia ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In conversation: Ute Wegmann’s wild animals Ute Wegmann is a freelance photographer with a heart for animals. Originally from Germany, she has been living in Australia for 18 years now. After taking on personal responsibility for an injured bird a few years ago, she became interested the li... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mad Square: 6 Metropolis At the time of German modernism, Berlin was the third biggest city worldwide. Dr Jacqueline Strecker guides us through the room within the Mad Square exhibition, which is dedicated to the idea of Metropolis.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Silver Circus is in Melbourne The famous Silver Circus is in Melbourne for the next weeks. The director is Anton Gasser, a Swiss. In 1969, he came to Australia and in 1976, he founded the circus. Frauke Feldmann visited Anton Gasser at the Silver Circus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Freddy Quinn – an Austrian icon turns 80 Freddy Quinn sold over 60 million records and was the face of the 1950s in Germany. With songs like Heimweh or La Paloma, he became on of the most successful artists in Germany. On Tuesday, Freddy Quinn turned 80 years old. Christian Froelicher ta... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ullrich Böhme, a German organist-legend in Australia Ullrich Böhme has been the organist at the famous Thomas-Church in Leipzig for 25 years. In that church, Martin Luther once preached and even Johann Sebastian Bach played the organ in the 18th Century. Christian Froelicher visited Ullrich Böhme ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Australia goes “Wiesn” – the Oktoberfestseason The Australians are fixed by the German Oktoberfest. There are a lot of pavilions around the country with German beer, traditional costumes and folk music, especially in Queensland. Niels Büngen talked to Peter Mierzwiak of Tourism Australia abou... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Insider – is there still hope for the Euro? The members of parliament in the German Bundestag will vote on Thursday about the European Financial Stability Facility. They have to decide if they want to further financially support indebted countries like Greece. Wolfgang Müller discusses the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Swiss circus in Australia The famous Silver Circus is in Melbourne for the next weeks. The director is Anton Gasser, a Swiss. In 1969, he came to Australia and in 1976, he founded the circus. Christian Froelicher visited Anton Gasser at the Silver Circus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly review September 19 - 24, 2011 - The week in hindsight. A summary of highlights, interviews and features of the past six programs. Broadcast every Sunday night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kaurna, an indigenous language with a German twist During the 19th Century, the German missionary Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann started documenting an indigenous language in Australia; Kaurna. It was spoken by the indigenous people of Adelaide and the surrounding hills. For years, Schürmann did resea... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The impact of a German missionary on an Australian language During the 19th Century, the German missionary Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann started documenting an endangered language: Kaurna, the tongue of the indigenous people of Adelaide. Even during the early days of colonization, only few people were still ab... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taste the Waste – how we are wasting our food Almost half of the food produced in Germany gets thrown away, either by the industry or by the customers. The German journalist Valentin Thur made a movie about the wasteful use of food: Taste the Waste. Robert Cramer watched the documentary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mad Square: 5 Bauhaus and Constructivism The Bauhaus is considered politically as well as artistically radical. It was founded by Walter Gropius, who tried to bridge the gap between art and craft and forged a new kind of creative designer, skilled in both the conceptual aesthetics of art... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Insider - rare earth metals The race is on to find new deposits of rare earth metals which are used in energy-efficient bulbs and many other green-energy products. China produces nearly 95 percent of the worlds rare earth materials but Australian and German companies are te... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In conversation: theatre for kids During the school holidays this October, a theatre performance for kids will be put on at the Bondi Pavilion. Its called The Secret of the Seven Marbles and deals with Australias immigration history. This is obviously the specialist field of autho... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German Art in St. Kilda – a portrait of Maria Leonard St. Kilda is well-known as the home of Melbournes artists. They are from all over the world and, naturally, some are even German. The artist Maria Leonard has lived and worked in St. Kilda for over 40 years. Frauke Feldmann visited her and talked ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greece and its debt crisis The Greek economy seems to be in a downward spiral. The government is fighting with its strict austerity program yet still heads towards bankruptcy. Its EU-partners become more and more anxious and some want to refuse Greece any more financial aid... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On a string - of myths and marionettes Norbert Hausbergs best friends are wooden and come with strings attached: he gives shows in Australia and New Zealand with his handmade marionettes. His program includes German myths and fairy tales like Snow White and Rumpelstiltskin. Moreover, t... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics 1, 2, 3 – Germany’s Pirate Party Established in 2006, the German Pirate Party seems to raise up in Berlin, gaining more and more influence. Concentrating on soft topics - like more transparency for state affairs, internet extension and free education - the movement has just enter... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Palestine – a future country? For more than 60 years, Palestinians have been struggling to build their own state. Now, the Palestinian Authority has decided to ask the United Nations for a full recognition, which would equal the independence of the land behind the German river... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly review September 12 - 17, 2011 - The week in hindsight. A summary of highlights, interviews and features of the past six programs. Broadcast every Sunday night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Palestine – a future country? For more than 60 years, Palestinians have been struggling to build their own state. Now, the Palestinian Authority has decided to ask the United Nations for a full recognition, which would equal the independence of the land behind the German river... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: German internees in WWI When Nadine Helmi did some research at the internment camp Trial Bay, she came across a treasure, the professional photographs of Paul Dubotzki, one of the internees of WW1. 7000 people with German and Austrian heritage were locked up in NSW alone... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschaftsinsider - Our new Consul-General Hans-Dieter Steinbach is Germanys new Consul-General in Sydney. During his diplomatic career, he has served in some of the most interesting hotspot around the world. He tells the SBS Radio Wirtschaftsinsider that hes looking forward to his time in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mad Square: Dada Curator Dr Jacqueline Strecker leads us through the fourth room of the Mad Square exhibition, containing works of the Dada period, for example by George Grosz.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melbourne’s forgotten sights (4/4): Manchester Unity Arcade Es ist noch nicht lange her, da war Rita Jenkins bei uns im Studio zu Gast. Rita ist ein so genannter City Greeter, das heißt sie zeigt Besuchern im Auftrag des Tourismusbüros von Melbourne kostenlos die schönsten Plätze der Stadt. Und: Rita k... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who was Jürgen Corleis? On the 11th of August, the German foreign correspondent Jürgen Corleis died at the age of 82. Corleis fell in love with Australia when he first came here, so he decided to spend the rest of his life in Sydney. The journalist and author worked for... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radioworkshop – How to produce a radio feature in 90 Minutes… Once a year, the Monash University in Melbourne cancels all lectures and courses in favour of workshops and presentations hosted by German companies in Australia, including SBS. Pamela Rauleder and Frauke Feldmann took some microphones and produce... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opal diggers searching for precious rocks With the next big supermarket 300 Kilometres away, water out of a stinky well and venomous snakes under the bed, life isnt easy for Monika Schlatter and Fred Mücke. However, the search for opals makes them stay in the Outback of Queensland. Fred ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art made of sticky tape Federation Square has just been decorated with 30 kilometres of sticky tape. Its no malicious mischief but art made in Austria. One of the artists responsible for the Squares new costume is Christoph Katzler. To finish his artwork he has used abou... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ten years after September 11 Ten years ago on Sunday the earth moved. The impact of September 11 in 2001 varies around the world, but virtually no-one was immune. And for much of the world, it represents the two worlds they have known: before September 11 and after. You know ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: Alban Gerhardt Alban Gerhardt is considered one of the best Cellists worldwide. On the 17th of September he will play the Cello Concerto No 1 by Shostakovich with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. He won many awards, recorded CDs and has even had music written f... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mad Square: Political Posters Curator Dr Jacqueline Strecker shows us the third room of the Mad Square exhibition, containing political posters of the time after WWI, the time of the 1919 revolution.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In conversation: Alban Gerhardt Alban Gerhardt is considered one of the best Cellists worldwide. On the 17th of September he will play the Cello Concerto No 1 by Shostakovich with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. He won many awards, recorded CDs and has even had music written f... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melbourne’s forgotten sights (3/4): financial district German speaker Rita Jenkins is one of Melbournes special tour guides, a so called City Greeter. Being a volunteer she takes visitors to the most interesting places in town - free of charge! We became curious about her knowledge of forgotten places... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschaftsinsider - Martin Hildebrand, immigration expert The High Court of Australia has put the Governments entire offshore processing strategy for asylum seekers in doubt. After spending hundreds of millions of tax dollars on keeping asylum seekers away from the mainland, the Government is now looking... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Donkeys as curative animals For a long time, donkeys have been considered as plague in Australia. However, some experts say that they have a curative effect, for example on disabled children. In Queensland a family from Karlsruhe holds a farm of donkeys. Niels Büngen has be... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Donkeys as curative animals For a long time, donkeys have been considered as plague in Australia. However, some experts say that they have a curative effect, for example on disabled children. In Queensland a family from Karlsruhe holds a farm of donkeys. Niels Büngen has be... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Youth Mailbox – a summer in Germany Once a month Switch On broadcasts a brand new project of the AGTV and SBS German Radio - the Youth Mailbox. Students are able to produce their own features, and were going to get them on air! This time, three schools from Victoria have spent their... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9/11 - One decade has passed We open our phone lines to listeners who tell us where they were, when the planes hit the towers of the World Trade Center ten years ago. Surprisingly, one our callers spent that day in N.Y.C. while another of our listeners was on a plane during t... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guerrilla Gardeners – mission planting Normally guerrilleros fight with guns for freedom or independence. For a couple of years now a new movement has been trying to shape the world with greener methods. As Guerrilla Gardeners theyve decided to plant trees and flowers illegally. Robert... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In conversation: Expressionism and the art after WWI Join us in a private guided tour through the first two rooms of the exhibition currently showing at the NSW Art Gallery: The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910-37! Curator Dr Jacqueline Strecker talks with Trudi Latour about the great works ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melbourne’s forgotten sights (2/4): the old Rialto building German speaker Rita Jenkins is one of Melbournes special tour guides, a so called City Greeter. Being a volunteer she takes visitors to the most interesting places in town - free of charge! We became curious about her knowledge of forgotten places... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Insider: new money for European banks The troubled euro doesnt seem to gain ground, in spite of recent emergency measures. Newly appointed IMF boss Christine Lagarde wants the European governments to provide additional funds for the banks to avoid yet another crisis. Expectedly invest... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Extraordinary challenge: million Dollar Memo One million Dollars is a whole lot of money. Tourism Queensland has launched a competition that asks tour operators from all over the world to compete. In order to win, operators have to prove that theyre the ones with the best team spirit. German... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly Review August 22-27, 2011 - The week in hindsight. A summary of highlights, interviews and features of the past six days. Broadcast every Sunday night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Injection rooms – a back door for drug addicts? Sydney provides a special service for drug addicts: injection rooms where addicts can use under sanitary conditions, supervision and away from the streets. In Melbourne the states Baillieu-government is favouring a law-and-order approach. In this ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On silly seasons and newsworthy animals With half of Germanys population on holidays during summer, more animals tend to make the news. Cow Yvonne has been on the run trough Bavarias forests since May, and none of her persuers have been able to catch the bovine lady with a taste for the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In conversation: Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910-37 Never before did we see a showcase such as this in Australia, reflecting the great avant-garde movements of the Weimar Republic. Dr Jacqueline Strecker, the curator of this extraordinary art exhibition talks to Trudi Latour about the art works in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Insider: The international airline industry Wolfgang Mueller speaks to Patrick Diemer, CEO & Chairman of Lufthansas AirPlus about the current difficulties of the international airline industry.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Cello, my life Hes one of the best-known cellists in the world: Alban Gerhardt. Currently, the German musician is travelling around Australia to play concerts with some of the continents most important orchestras. As artist, in residence at South Melbourne Town ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melbourne’s forgotten sights (1/4): down by the river Exploring Melbourne on foot can be illuminating and free! For the last 14 years, the Melbourne Tourism Office has been offering free tours guided by volunteers, called City Greeters. Rita Jenkins is one of them. We became curious about her forgott... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website North-Frisian stories from Melbourne German-speaking author Sabine Nielsen lives in Melbourne. She was born on the German island Föhr, where all of her stories take place. Her books transport the feeling of falling and rising tide and the North-Frisian spirit. However the stories ar... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fighting over fighting dogs After the death of a four-year old girl who was attacked by a pit bull cross, Australia debates the future of fighting dogs. The Victorian government now plans to enact a new law: dog owners whose pets kill people should face tougher consequences ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indonesia: So close but yet so far On August 17, Indonesia celebrates its Independence Day, reason enough for us to ask, why Australians know so little about their closest and biggest neighbour. Dr Antje Missbach from the University of Melbourne knows the country inside out and tel... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politicians between private life and public morals Top-ranking politicians are always in the public eye. But should their lives be viewed separately from the job? A Lolita-affair recently ended the career of German politician Christian von Boetticher. Robert Cramer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In conversation: Soprano Pamela Mildenhall Pamela Mildenhall is a specialist in the field of German songs. She talks to Trudi Latour about her professional career, which led her from Australia to Germany. There she was able to make her scholarship grant last for an extra year and then used... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Visiting Melbourne’s haunted places Tired of clubbing and sitting in noisy bars, we were looking after alternatives on a Saturday night. And what would be better than a Ghost Walk through narrow alleys with spooky storys about Melbournes dark past? Drew Sinton, owner of The Haunted ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exploring Australia by motorbike Many people are dreaming of a round-the-world trip. But most of them wait until their retirement pension. However Kati and Jens Witte from the South West of Germany resigned from their jobs. Instead of travelling on a luxury liner or on the orient... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Snow chaos hits New Zealand Standstill in New Zealand: Australia's neighbour has been hit by a rare weather front from the Antarctic. Roads, highways and airports are closed. In the last few days, Wellington has seen more snow than in the past 50 years. Niels Büngen and Oli... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anarchy in the UK: What is the right answer? After violent riots shook London and other cities, the British government is now looking for answers. How can violent eruptions like these be avoided in future? In our talkback, Oliver Heuthe finds out whether similar clashes could also happen in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Berlin Wall: separating ideologies and people Ever since Germany was split in two, people were leaving the Socialist East for a life in the prosperous West. In the late 1950s however, the number of people leaving felt more like an exodus to the regime in the East. Therefore, on August 13 1961... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In conversation: German architect reconstructs Tiananmen Square In her research about the former German colony Quintao, Prof Dr Yixu Lu came across the private documents of Walter Frei. He came to Quintao as a reserve officer at the start of WW1, but actually was an architect by profession. As Prof Lu found ou... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Explore Melbourne for free! To discover Melbourne on foot is not only exciting but also free of charge! For 14 years now, the city of Melbourne has been offering free guided tours around town, shown by so-called City Greeters. One of those guides is German-speaking Rita Jenk... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Insider: Profitability of office space Australians love to discuss real estate, especially family homes. But what about office space? Is it worth it, to invest while stock markets are under pressure worldwide? Wolfgang Müller speaks with property insider Hans Henkel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Youth Mailbox: The Premiere SBS German Radio and the AGTV have launched a brand-new project: the Youth Mailbox. The premiere takes us to Marburg in Germany. Students and teachers from the Geelong Network and the Viewbank College took a microphone with them and recorded their... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Youth Mailbox: We want to know what moves you! The Youth Mailbox is the brand-new project of the AGTV and SBS German Radio: Productions made by students and teachers which SBS will broadcast. The best thing about it: you can chose your own favourite topic to talk about. Click here to find out ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today is Census-day! Millions of Australians have their pens ready to start filling in the Census Form. Every five years, the Australian government is conducting a census. People who refuse to fill in all the information have to pay an administrative fine. Adrian Plit... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today is Census-day! Millions of Australians have their pens ready to start filling in the Census Form. Every five years, the Australian government is conducting a census. People who refuse to fill in all the information have to pay an administrative fine. Adrian Plit... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The heritage of the GDR Our talkback program Pünktlich um 9 on the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall - It stood for 28 years and divided a nation. Now its been another two decades since the fall of the wall. But what remains after the collapse of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Rann stays in office Since the replacement of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by then deputy Julia Gillard, leadership changes by democratic vote seems to have gone out of fashion. This week South Australian Premier Mike Rann got close to suffering a similar faith. Oliver H... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschaftsinsider: Observatory Hotel A holiday in a 5 Star Hotel is a dream for many. But what is it like to be the director of such a luxury business? Ralf Brügger, runs one of Sydneys top hotels. He tells the Wirtschaftsinsider that he couldnt ask for a better job.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In conversation: the German colony Quintao Planned as a demonstration model for the worlds best possible colony, it only lasted for a short while, and wasnt based on more than a lease agreement, as Prof Lu, head of the department of Germanic Studies at Sydney Uni explains.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melbourne Bike Share For more then a year now Melbournians have had the option to hire public bikes. At over 50 automatic stations - around the CBD and all around the clock - but only if one brings or hires a helmet. Dominika Jaschek and Oliver Heuthe went on tour... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Race of a different kind: the beer can regatta Its probably the craziest competition in the world: the beer can regatta in Darwin. Once a year Australians and tourists alike build vessels out of beer cans for this special race. Niels Büngen reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Insider: deal needs to be improved The United States has narrowly avoided a debt default that could have wreaked havoc trough the global economy. Despite the consent, stock markets worldwide reacted negatively. So is the budget deal a success? Wolfgang Mueller speaks with financial... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Cyril Tuschi Cyril Tuschi is a German film maker from Berlin. Hes in Melbourne to promote his controversial two-hour documentary on Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The Russian oligarch suffered a fall of Shakespearean proportions when he took on Vladimir Putin in 2003 a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschaftsinsider: The US at the edge of financial darkness The Australian share market has fallen steeply as investors begin to lose confidence that the US will reach an acceptable resolution on raising its debt ceiling. The Wirtschaftsinsider explains what stands in the way of a comprehensive bipartis... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: Prof Dr Yixu Lu When Prof Lu got her place at the languages department of the University of Beijing, she didnt know that German would be at the centre of her successful career. It could have been any language that was allocated to her. After completing her course... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A good deal? The deal between Australia and Malaysia to exchange asylum seeker for refugees whilst official now is still causing heated discussions. Pamela Rauleder reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Massacre in Oslo On Friday, a 32 year old Norwegian caused a horrible bloodpath in Oslo and Utoya, an island close to Oslo. He killed 76 people, Norways worst post-war tragedy. Christian Froelicher talks with Patrick Wauthier about the latest news concerning this ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly review 18-23 July 2011 - The week in hindsight. A summary of highlights, interviews and features of the past six days. Broadcast every Sunday night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In the thick of Germany: Love Parade’s tragedy A year ago, a stampede at the Love Parade in Duisburg caused the death of 21 people, with at least 500 others injured. What has changed since then? How does Duisburg deal with this tragedy? Story by Robert Cramer.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: Social Media and other Web Tools What are they and how can you use them for business? Rebecca Birkhold gives us the answers. For her degree of Master of Economics she combined a practical real life workplace research with the theory and knows all about bogs, microblogs, wikis, fa... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschaftsinsider – New Skin for old Stones German architect Chris Bosse wants to rid Sydney of one of the citys ugliest buildings: the 32-storey UTS tower on Broadway. He tells Wolfgang Mueller about his plans.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lilli’s fountain of youth – a migration story In 1948, Lilli Stahr left her home town Danzig in search for a future. Today, Australia is her home and personal paradise, and Lilli herself proof, that curiosity is a wonderful fountain of youth. Dominika Jaschek and Robin Hommes visited the 90-y... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A close look at immigration laws Migration policy and the economy are closely intertwined. Wolfgang Mueller takes a close look at recent changes to immigration laws in Perth, Australias booming metropolis.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Four degrees or more - Australia in a hot world Climate policy was a hot topic in Australia all week, triggered by Prime Minister Julia Gillard's announcement of a carbon tax. Climate policy was also discussed at the international conference "Four degrees and more - Australia in a hot world" in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stress free learning: a participative program Nr.9 - Concentration and stamina training. In the last part of the series on learning techniques with psychologist Dr Thomas Henning we take part in an experiment to find out about our personal distraction patterns. We also hear about the differe... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business insider: population growth The future size of the Australian population is a regular part of our national debate. A bigger population often means more tax revenue. But for local councils at the coalface of population, it doesn't necessarily work that way. And many mayors... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Trio Imàge in competition Trios and quartets from all over the world come to Australia to participate in the 6th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition (9-17 July 2011) - among them, ensembles from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Just as international is the T... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Amaryllis Quartet in competition Trios and quartets from all over the world come to Australia to participate in the 6th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition (9-17 July 2011) - among them, ensembles from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Christian Froelicher spoke wit... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rhein-Donau Club Perth Especially in the early days, clubs were an essential element of the social life of migrant communities. Correspondent Wolfgang Leonhard explores the birth and growth of the Rhein-Donau Club Perth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trust your feelings more than your mind It is not always easy to make a right decision - especially for those people who work in politics or the business world. Wolfgang Mueller asks a psychologists, why making the right decision has become even harder today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What does the carbon tax exactly mean for us? Everyone is talking about the new Carbon Tax; its details were announced in Canberra on the 10th of July. But a lot of citizens are more confused than ever. Why? Because they do not know the facts, experts say. Christian Froelicher talked to one o... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As goalkeeper in Gallipoli.... He just obtained the Australian passport when the Australian Handball Federation invited Pascal Winkler to participate at the historic 2010 Tri-Nation Gallipoli Tournament. Pascal Winker reflects on the impressions he gained at this historical si... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Austrian cattle farmer in North Territory The footage we saw on TV was shocking: Cattle was tortured in abattoirs in Indonesia.The Australian government stopped the live exports immediately. This week, the government suddenly stopped the ban. But this is not only good news for farmers in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stress-free Learning – a Participative Program 8 Pendulum In the series about Better Learning Techniques with psychologist Dr Thomas Henning we find out today how to use the idea of a pendulum in order to avoid getting distracted by unnecessary thoughts and phantasies.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: Rebecca Birkholt Rebecca Birkholt is German. But she thinks entirely global. She just finished her MA in economics in English, here in Australia. Combining practical work experience in a the real company situation with academic research, she wrote about the possib... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschafts-Insider-Branding A strong brand is invaluable as the battle for customers intensifies day by day. Branding is all about a company's personality its the topic of this edition of Wirtschftsinsider. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What counts in chamber music The Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition is one of the most prominent of its kind. From 9-17 July 16 selected piano trios and string quartets from all over the globe will compete for 100.000 Dollars in prizes. Patrick Wauthier speaks ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Long live sport Everybody wants to be fit, healthy and full of energy. One way to achieve this is to get active and to play sports. And that is exactly what SBS Pamela Rauleder did; she visits personal trainer Carolin Buncle in Melbourne.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Compulsory conscription ends in Germany Germany officially phased out military conscription on Friday, July 1. Forthwith, it's not compulsory for Germans to attend compulsory military training which in the past 54 years lasted for periods between 18 months and, towards the end, six mont... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hunter Valley for Insiders The Hunter Valley is home to approximately 80 wineries - no doubt a paradise for wine lovers. But also admirers of plants and flowers can loose themselves in the famous Hunter Valley gardens. Tour guide Wolfgang Hees is taking us on a tour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It gets greener in Canberra From July 1 onwards, for the first time in history, the Greens will hold the balance of power in the senate. Nine green senators will be in the Upper House. As the partys senators almost double, Green will me an important force in future process o... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bananafarmers in Queensland 13 dollars - that is what you have to pay for a kilo of a bananas these days. And prices are expected to stay that high till the end of July, or might even rise more. But what is annoying for the consumer, threatens many farmers in Queensland. Nat... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How the Greek Crisis effects Australia Experts fear that if Greece goes bankrupt, the financial sector could suffer a shock; a shock similar to the one that lead to the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers three years ago. In Europe and the USA, banks had to be saved by gove... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Problems for cattle farmer continue to grow The film-shots, that have been shown in Australia during the last weeks, shocked everybody: The pictures, recorded by the animal rights group Animals Australia, show how Australian cattle are tortured to death in Indonesian slaughterhouses. Austra... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living in old age „Everybody wants to get old, but nobody wants to be old. On the one hand a lot of people wish to have a long life, but on the other hand nobody wants to get older. The reality is very different. Its not just that we as individuals are getting ol... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly review June 20-25, 2011 - The week in hindsight. A summary of highlights, interviews and features of the past six programs. Broadcast every Sunday night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Go back to where you came from The SBS Show "Go back to where you came from" has touched us all in some ways. There were tears and there was empathy. How or if it change people's perception of the refugee issue you can hear in our talkback program with Adrian Plizco and Patrick... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stress free learning - a participative program Nr.7 - Directing awareness to the inside In this installment of our series with psychologist Dr Thomas Henning we find out how to direct our attention to the inside to increase the ability to focus and concentrate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Refugee camps for CEOs The SBS TV series "Go Back to Where You Came From" is based on the idea that reliving a genuine refugee experience will make the problem's human dimension more visible. Volker Euler tells Trudi Latour about the aid organisation Crossroads, based in H... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Insider: Closing of the Melbourne Consulate Wolfgang Mueller talks to Markus Gilbert from the German Australian Chamber of Commerce and asks how the loss of the German Consulate in Melbourne will affect the chamber's work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A German Pastoral Worker in Melbourne In today's Hausbesuch, we visit Silvia Drescher in Melbourne. The German pastoral worker first came to Australia ten years ago, working as an AuPair in Sydney. After going back to Germany and studying and working in her native Bavaria, she decided... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No end to Greece’s woes Greece is not yet out of the woods. The fifth tranche of a 110 billion euro rescue package (12 billion euro) will be transferred to Athens only if the parliament puts the savings plan of the government into action. The savings plan in Athens is th... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Go back to where you came from On June, 21st a special TV event starts on SBS ONE: "Go back to where you came from" sends six Australians on a journey they will never forget. They cross the ocean on an old, leaky fishing boat and share in this way the lot of refugees. Ivan O'Ma... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vienna's masterpieces in Melbourne On June the 18th, the Exhibition "Vienna Art & Design" opened in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. It's an exciting journey through the creative mindset of Vienna's foremost painters, architects and designers at the beginning of the 20th... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly review June 13-18, 2011 - The week in hindsight. A summary of highlights, interviews and features of the past six programs. Broadcast every Sunday night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How much bureaucracy can you take? In our talkback show 'Pünktlich um 9' we talk about bureaucracy; how much bureaucracy is healthy and when does it start to disturb our life unnecessarily? It's not just about the extra strain on our brain cells, but can also cost the government b... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Felix Halter,Gourmet Chef Felix Halter, Chef with the Gourmet Academy tells us how we can produce beautiful specialities with the assistance of a combined steam and heat cooker, a novelty from Switzerland.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschafts-Insider The state of Australia's Economy Es knirscht im Getriebe der australischen Wirtschaft. Der Bergbausektor läuft auf Hochtouren, dagegen lahmen Einzelhandel, Bausektor und verarbeitende Gewerbe. Michael Sauermost von Germany Trade und Invest hat sich das Wirtschaftsdilemm... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stress-free Learning – a Participative Program 6 Increasing Attention Having mastered the autogenic relaxation, a prerequisite for effective learning, we are now finding out about how to increase our attention span. Psychologist Dr Thomas Henning talks to Trudi Latour about the Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Practical use of renewables... Solar taxi, plane or boat, the Swiss believe in showing by example how to attain ecological mobility. Markus Meli, the Swiss Consul General talks about the safe crossing of the Pacific of the solar boat Planet Solar Turandor, whereas the Swiss... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A new sound in the Trinity Church Alexander-Mathias Murer is a tenor from Austria. Recently, he migrated to Australia with his family. But Alexander Murer is also a music teacher. He is now using his skill for the early musical education in the Trinity Church in East Melbourne. Ad... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Insider: Summer Olympic Games in London In about one years time London will host the Summer Olympic Games the third time. But organisation and hosting of such an event is not cheap: the overall costs are expected to add up to 7 billion Pounds. In order to make the most of their monez, t... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turtle-killer: plastic Turtles have been living in the oceans around Australia over 100 Million years by now. Researcher in Moreton Bay, Brisbane, examined turtles that were washed ashore and discovered, that one third of them perished because they ate plastic waste. Pa... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin for Insiders Adrian Plitzco takes us to the Northern Territory. Although Darwin is well-known for its beautiful nature, its pubs are also more than worth visiting. Tour guide Bernd Molitorisz shows us the secret locations for drinks and more. Get ready for som... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Italy’s vote on Bunga-Bunga In a two-day referendum the Italian population decided to give nuclear power a miss and also voted against Silvio Berlusconis judicial immunity. Christian Fröhlicher speaks with Oliver Heuthe, who researched on the current political situation in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The best apps for your trip to Europe The most popular time to visit Europe is (early) summer, namely June, July and August. It's the high season for tourists, and the favourite time for Australia's German community to visit their former homeland or land of their ancestors. But what d... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wolfgang Leonardt visiting SBS from Perth SBS correspondent Wolfgang Leonardt emigrated with his family from Berlin to Australia. In 1950 the stateless family arrived after the War in Perth. The passionate chess player talks to Robin Hommes about building up his new life down under. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Welcome to the world of herbs and spices Todays visit gives us the chance to learn more about the spices we use in our daily cooking. If you think of curry, maybe Germany does not come into your mind. However, a German spice house Gewürzhaus does just that. Eva and Maria Konecsny are si... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly review June 6-11, 2011 - The week in hindsight. A summary of highlights, interviews and features of the past six programs. Broadcast every Sunday night.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: Zafer Senocak Jihad is nothing but the fight of men against women Zafer Senocak is one of the leading voices in the German discussions about multiculturalism. Born in Ankara and grown up in Germany, he questions our concepts of national and cultural identity... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Welcome aboard! Every time we hear this greeting, we travel by airplane. However, many of us depend on this travel mode to go on holidays or to visit friends or relatives. Over the last years the aviation business has changed, and the Australian market has expand... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tasmania for Insiders Ruhe, Wellen und das Geräusch von Möwen, das erwartet Sie an der tasmanischen Ostküste. Mit Adrian Plitzco geht es dieses Mal nach Tasmanien. Viele lange Strände und Granitfelsen laden zu ruhigen Spaziergängen ein.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Swiss Pavilion@CeBIT Australia For the first time a number of leading Swiss ICT companies have joined to represent their products and services at this important industry fair at Darling Harbour. Company representatives explain their products and talk to Ursula about their impre... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Watch out for swear words! If you swear a lot, todays show is a must for you. The newly introduced regulation by the Victorian government punishes swearing in public places much harder than in the past. Adrian Plitzco talks about the new regulation and its impact. Learn mor... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Insider: Black day for the share market The Australian share market has suffered its worst fall this year - down more than two percent. In real terms that's a loss of $33 billion of the value of the Australian market. What's behind the dive? Share trader Markus Müller paints a picture... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: Good Bye Klaus Krischok On the 1st of June the time for our cool Goethe Institute director was up. After five years in Australia, he is now going to Israel. This maybe difficult call for a German cultural representative is surely appropriate for this elegantly competent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Holidays in Australia, or not? Not that long ago, tourists and Australians agreed: Down under is great for holidaying. These days, Australians have discovered the attractions of overseas travel. In this talkback Oliver Heuthe, Adrian Plitzco and Linda Striebing discuss destinat... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschaftsinsider: Video games are know-how Little known fact: Australia is one of the leading locations for the development of video games world wide. One example is the title L.A. Noir. Unfortunately, the Australian government isnt actively cultivating this technological know-how as much ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kooljaman for insiders Adrian Plitzco takes you to hidden, but extremely beautiful places all over Australia. This time we go to Kooljaman - and no, thats not in Jamaica. This small gem of a place is located 220 kilometres north of Broome right on the tip of the Dampier... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My home is my principality My home is my castle - but why stop there? More than 40 years ago, a farmer in Western Australia decided to test a theory. He founded his own state. The Principality of Hutt River still exists. It lies about 600 kilometres north of Perth and count... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sweet 16 and ready to vote? The election in the small German state of Bremen was a historic one. For the first time even 16 year olds were allowed to vote. In todays talkback program, Oliver Heuthe asks our listeners, if this is a suitable age to start voting. Some listeners... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CeBIT Australia For three days, CeBIT is open to everyone involved in the I.T. industry. The Australian branch of the German based exhibition has become one of the largest in the Asia-Pacific region. The event was officially opened by Australian Foreign Minister ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coober Pedy for Insiders Adrian Plitzco takes you to hidden, but extremely beautiful places all over Australia. Coober Pedy is surrounded by sand, but has to offer so much more. The little town is known for its opals and travel guide Bernd Molitorisz talks about the secre... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website We visit the City of Bendigo There are some 55 ethnic groups living in the Greater Bendigo region, located in Central Victoria. From mid-May 2011, they are being served by SBS Radio, on 95.7 FM. SBS Radio is unlike any broadcaster in the world as it aims to communicate, educa... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Visa for Superman only Based on changes in immigration policies, the Australian Government introduces new visa regulations on the 1st of July 2011. If you are not a highly skilled, young engineer with several years of international experience, and willing to work in rur... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is “Big Australia” history? More than a year ago, the Australian Government announced that in 2050 up to 36 million people could call Australia home. In his first report, Minister for Sustainable Population, Tony Burke sticks to his ministers title and calls for a sustai... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Düsseldorf to Baku After Germany 2011, the Eurovision Song Contest will move to Azerbaijan in 2012. The country is home to around 9 million people. Despite the victory in Düsseldorf, most people dont know more than the capitals name: Baku. Oliver Heuthe speaks with... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SBS goes Eurovision! SPS-reporter Pamela Rauleder flew all the way from Australia to the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf. More than 40 European nations participated in this competition and our reporter Pamela tried to speak to most artists in person. Pamel... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stress-free Learning – a Participative Program – 4 Quick Relaxation Following the exercises that taught us awareness, calm and gravity, we are completing the first part of Dr Hennings program. The quick autogenic relaxation exercise combines the knowledge and practical skills weve learned so far and will be follow... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschafts-Insider Renewable Energies Die Reduzierung des Co2 Ausstoßes und der Gebrauch alternativer Energien steht heute in der politischen Diskussion an vorderster Front. Die Ansichten, wie wir in eine umweltfreundlichere Umwelt gelangen prallen oft hart aufeinander.Albert Goller,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quiz-Master Richard Morecroft and his „Letters and Numbers“ Oliver Heuthe speaks with Richard Morecroft, the host of SBS quiz show „Letters and Numbers. Morecroft, well-known for presenting the ABC morning news, started with the successful SBS quiz show in 2010. Letters and Numbers is based on the French... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The UN’s Rule of Law and its limitations? The international reactions of political leaders to Osama bin Ladens death were characterized by relief and general support. However, the United Nations have recently emphasized the importance of the Rule of Law, which is a principle of governance... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stress-free Learning – a Participative Program – 3 Gravity The third exercise in Dr Hennings training program for better learning skills is called gravity. We learn to feel another physical dimension of our bodies in preparation for the final exercise in this part of the program, combining the last 3 part... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: The Loss of Biodiversity With the increase of CO2 in our atmosphere the oceans turn sour and the crustaceans lose their ability to form their shells. But this is only one of the many reasons for the decreasing biodiversity we are experiencing on earth today. "Australia is... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschafts-Insider Camera No1 from Bavaria ARRI, are the makers of legendary film cameras from Munich. For more than 90 years the family-owned company has been part of many Oscar winning film projects. However, despite its ground breaking achievements, ARRI has a low profile outside the wo... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sydney for Insiders Most of the great places to visit are not published in any travel guides. Adrian Plitzco takes you on a journey to discover or even re-discover Australia. This time, Adrian speaks to experienced travel guide Anja Kuethe-Soll in Sydney. Anja talks ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly Review Listen to our weekly highlights, to gain an insight into the typical content of our nine weekly programs, which - depending on where you live - are broadcast live from Monday to Friday 9-10am, and Tuesday/Thursday/Sunday 8-9pm. This week's compila... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is quality worth the money? Is quality worth the money?   Imagine you are looking for a new television or car, would you prefer a product made in China or made in Germany? Due to globalisation, the business world has become one big market place in Australia. D... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What’s the role of a curator? In order to find out more about the work of a curator, Linda Striebing met Brigitte Remmen, who is the current curator of the Art Gallery at St. Francis' Pastoral Centre. Brigitte explains what her role as a curator involves and how she discovers ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschafts-Insider Water & Climate Change Climate change is reducing our water supply while population growth adds demand. Günter Hauber-Davidson is a leading expert in water conservation. He tells the Wirtschafts-Insider how Aboriginal communities are involved in efforts to use water ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: Snail Sex and Climate Change Snails can decide freely about which sex they want to take on, can dig into the soil for months on end during drought and come back to life as long as 16 years after serving as museums exhibit as soon as moisture enters their display cabinet. The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stress-free Learning – a Participative Program – 2 Calm Today well go over to the exercise called Calm in the psychologist Dr Hennings training program. It allows for deep body relaxation. If you are a participant, you are advised by Dr Henning to conduct this short exercise a couple of times a day unt... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “Made in Germany” meets Australian “shall be right” Wolfgang Goedtner started his journey to Australia in the late 1970s, when he immigrated in order to work as a mechanic. Meanwhile, Australian John Dyke bought a flight ticket to Germany starting his new life overseas. Pamela Rauleder met the two ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly Review: 24th April 2011 Our week in hindsight. A summary of the highlights, interviews and features on the program of the past six days.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stress-free Learning – a Participative Program – 1 Awareness Today well go interactive. Over the next few weeks you can participate in Dr Hennings exercise program for stress-less learning. After putting the exercise program into its context of autogenic training, we will start with the exercise awareness. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschafts-Insider remote controlled pace makers Implantable heart pacemakers have been in use for more than half a century and have helped thousands of patients live longer. The electronic devices are continuously getting more efficient and could soon be linked to the internet. Remote monitorin... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CeBIT 31.5-2.6.11 new Participants The Swiss-Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) is participating for the first time at CeBIT Australia. Marcel Svatos, General Manager of the Chamber talks to Ursula Schappi about the challenges it presents to new participants to fin... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CeBIT 31.5-2.6.11 @ Darling Harbour The yearly three-day IT Industry Fair is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle is visiting to mark this occasion and here, Doris Schnyder, Senior Account Manager with Hannover Fairs gives us insight into ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week's highlights In a bid to showcase our output to the time-poor (or just to busy being busy), we now broadcast a weekly review, every Sunday, featuring excerpts from our six preceeding morning shows. In this week's review, we broadcast highlights from Monday's T... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschafts-Insider Australia's two-speed economy Ford cuts jobs in Victoria, Toyota operates on a reduced schedule, the building industry is in a slump is the economy really as strong as we are made to believe? ANU Economist, Dr Timo Henckel, says Australia has a two-speed economy. &... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation: Dr Henning – Learning how to learn Whenever we learn something, new synapses are formed in our brains. If we are stressed however, this process is blocked. Trudi Latour speaks to Dr Henning, a psychologist from Cologne, who has developed a program which aims at learning how to lear... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mementos in a can They say that nothing conjures up forgotten memories like taste and smell. And that, eventually, every expatriate will come to lust for some of those mundane mementos. They come in cans, glasses and vacuum bags, and some can be bough in every well... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Female Diggers to the front In early April, a sex scandal shook up the Australian Defence Force. Only a short time later, the Australian Government acted and has announced a number of reviews that will investigate the incident as well as the role of women in the armed forces... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Successful start to the Festival of German Films To coincide with the „Golden Lola, the German Film Awards 2011 in Berlin, the Audi Festival of German Films has started in Australia. It presents todays best German works, as well as those of the past ten years. In todays talkback, we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melbourne needs a green future Melbourne is Australia's fastest growing city, tipped to overtake Sydney in a few decades. While this poses many challenges to already stretched public transport services, it also offers many opportunities, says Lord Mayor Robert Doyle. In his add... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschafts-Insider First Olympic Win for Australia In a departure from the traditional green hockey surface, the colour of the pitches for London 2012 Olympics will be the striking colour combination of blue pitch and pink surrounds. The award-winning synthetic grass surface is an Australian devel... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschafts-Insider: Prefab houses from Germany European building standards have proven hard to translate to the Australian market. The devil is in the details, and the cost. But a new company is trying to change this by thinking big: With imported prefab houses, directly from Germany. Wolfgang... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Storm and Stress in Down Under Between April 7th and 18th filmlovers in all major Australian cities will celebrate the Audi Festival of German Films. One of the festivals highlight: Goethe. A wonderful film about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of the greatest poets of th... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Goethe invites to the Festival of German Films Between April 7th and 18th, lovers of German films will come together to celebrate the 10th birthday of the Festival of German Films. It's a highlight not only for Germans living in Australia, and if you haven't been to the last ones, this might b... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melbourne laughs- 25th International Comedy Festival Once a year, Melbourne invites people for 3 weeks of laughter. People from all over the world come to celebrate the International Comedy Festival. The German Comedian Henning Wehn represents Germany as the German comedy ambassador. Oliver Heuth... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Swiss Festival 2011 - A feature The Swiss Festival in West Heidelberg, Victoria, is Australia's biggest gathering of migrants and expats from Switzerland. Its ninth edition, on April the 3rd 2011, drew more than 1200 guests from all over Victoria. They were entertained by artist... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 25 years after Chernobyl Current events at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan bring back memories of another catastrophe 25 years ago. On the 26th of April 1986, an accident occurred at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, then USSR, which still impacts the environment... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschafts-Insider CO2 Steuer Prime Minister (ms) Julia Gillard says she is determined to price carbon pollution but the Opposition is sceptical. Part of the problem is the lack of detail surrounding the new tax. The Wirtschafts-Insider has asked two experts what we know abo... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Im Gespräch – Keep Surfing That the surf on an ice cold artificial river in Munich attracts even Australian surfing greats, might be astonishing to some. But Bjoern Richie Lob proves it with his film Keep Surfing, in the making for 10 years. The filmmaker will travel to Syd... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Australia to Germany - in a Postie van Back in 1969/70, Helmut Schmidtmann from Stuttgart drove an "International Harvester" from Melbourne to Germany. He was accompanied by a teenager from the Netherlands, Gus Pegel, and an Australian salesman from Melbourne's western suburbs, Martin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NSW goes to the polls On March 26, around four million people will vote a new parliament in NSW. Labor Premier Kristina Keneally has inherited a controversial government legacy, but still she has hopes to lead her part to victory. Her Liberal counterpart Barry O'Farrel... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschafts-Insider - Eftpos future Australias Eftpos payment system has so far been free of charge for customers. But thats about to change. A new fee structure will slug thousands of small businesses with higher bank charges which are likely to be passed on to customers in the fo... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hand to heart - who doesn't love Mercedes Benz and BMWs? But Wolfgang and Gerhardt love them so much they have dedicated their live to them. Trained as car mechanics in Germany they established a Mercedes Benz/BMW workshop in Melbourne over 30 years ago. Pamela Rauleder visited Peter Star Motors in Brae... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conflict about German backpacker in Victoria Backpacker and locals face a conflict in Lilydale, Victoria. Lots of German and international tourists use the carpark near the lake as a campground. Many locals get more and more angry. Niels Buengen was in Lilydale.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Australia celebrates the diversity On March 21, Australia traditionally celebrates Harmony Day, the day of diversity. This day is dedicated to the world and celebrates the diversity of all Australians. The event is sponsored and supported by the Australian Government. It aims to un... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Dustyboots" turns 20 The Swiss country and road music band Dustyboots celebrates twenty years of music making. Its lead singer and founder, Alex Gwerder, talks about some of the band's highlights, including its latest recording at the Ardent Studio in Memphis. &nb... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Even journalists leave Tokyo Some scientists believe that it is only a matter of hours until major problems at the Fukushima plant have to be resolved. Otherwise, it could come to a nuclear meltdown, the second biggest atomic catastrophy since Tshernobyl in 1986. While the Ja... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Not much Work, but a lot to Travel Australia is one of the most popular destinations for backpackers. Nice beaches, palms, Koalas and and here and there a job. Lots of people think that life as a backpacker in Down Under is very easy and simple. But the situation has changed, becau... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Modern Australia–More than just beaches Australia and Germany have strong ties with one another. But the German Understanding of Australia is full of clichés. This is the opinion of Australian ambassador Peter Tesch. He thinks that Australia has a very outdated image in Europ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Socceroos dare to take on Germany again After last year's defeat against the Germans in South Africa, Australia's national soccer team will try once more to beat the 'National 11'. Led by German born coach Holger Osieck, the Aussies will try to beat the Germans on their on turf in Moenc... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hope and fear of Japanese in Australia Since the mega-quake, there have been new aftershocks, accidents in nuclear plants, and after the first cleanup there are gruesome discoveries. For the Japanese a difficult time begins. The images have shocked a global audience, however Japanese n... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Muotathal Mountain Man „Muotathal Mountain Man, is the title of a song by Dustyboots, a band that plays Road Music, a mix of Country, Rock and Blues with roots in the Muotathal, a high valley in central Switzerland. Uschi Suter, a longtime Sydney resident introduces t... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Behind the scenes. The daily life of a politician In early March a delegation of German politicians came to Australia. One of them was Professor Dr Egon Jüttner, he is a member of the Christian-Democrats(CDU). What is the daily life of a politician? Oliver Heuthe talked to him and asked him why... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschafts-Insider 100311 Two weeks ago the Federal Government announced a plan to introduce a carbon tax before proceeding to an emission trading scheme in 2015. The announcement of the policy triggered a furious debate with calls by segments of industry to delay the i... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation – Dagmar Leupold and Yixu Lu 2 „I want to write about what I want to know, says Dagmar Leupold, speaking about her novel Die Helligkeit der Nacht. Ein Journal. For her literary work with the historic persons Heinrich von Kleist and Ulrike Meinhoff, she invented her own art-la... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Australian post-punk from Germany The Australian musician John Berrie Dyke sees himself as an electronic cultural ambassador. He is born in melbourne and lives in Frankfurt. His music is a mix between German elektro-pop, australian post-punk and new-wave. He has toured in over 30 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collecting rocks to serve racist concepts Dr. Fritz Noetling a controversial geologist, who discribed the indigenous people of Tasmania as primitive. He tried to back up his claim with stone artifacts from the early twentieth century. Who was Fritz Noetling and what has he to do with Tas... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Right or wrong? What is allowed and how can I get archive justice? Each year, the courts deal with thousands of civil cases. For example: Am I allowed to cut off a branch protruding from neighbours tree? Oliver Heuthe talks about this question with legal professional Konstantin Tringas and also clarifies the ques... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Right or wrong? What is allowed and how can I get archive justice? Each year, the courts deal with thousands of civil cases. For example: Am I allowed to cut off a branch protruding from neighbours tree? Oliver Heuthe talks about this question with legal professional Konstantin Tringas and also clarifies the ques... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business-Insider Sustainable, affordable, easy to install and mass-produced. Swiss architect Nicholas Perren who lives in Sydney hopes to turn Australia into a world leader in factory-built homes.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation - Dagmar Leupold and Yixu Lu In Conversation - Dagmar Leupold and Yixu Lu Heinrich von Kleist wanted to come to Australia in1805; Dagmar Leupold re-invented his ghost in her novel „Die Helligkeit der Nacht in 2008; and in 2011 a Kleist symposium took place at the Univer... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NZ one week after the quake A week ago New Zealand's second largest city Christchurch was shaken by a powerful earthquake. How is the mood in NZ one week after the event that tragically claimed lives and devastated the CBD? SBS' Pamela Rauleder spoke to the German journalist... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cycling the World The young German Thomas Grosserichter is an ambitious cyclist. Soon he will jump on his push-bike to go around the world in a record time. He intends to complete the 29.000 km journey in 163 days and three hours. One of his destinations will be Au... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elizabeth Scheer: The story of a Catholic Sister in Melbourne How do you devote your life to God and your fellow human beings? Why would you do that? German-born Sr Elizabeth Scheer knows the answers. For the last 21 years, she visited the sick, the lonely and the elderly in Melbourne's German community. Bef... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peace: 17 Hippies will perform in Australia They have toured in China, the United States and Israel, and are now coming to Australia for the first time: The 17 Hippies. They play Adelaide, at the Womad-Festival, on the weekend of the 12th and 13th of March. But who is this eclectic band, an... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German Defence Minister exposed for plagiarism The affair surrounding German Minister of Defence, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, currently polarizes German society. After it became known that the popular minister had cheated in order to complete his PhD, opposition leaders demand his resignation.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Profile Gaddafi: 'Revolutionary leader' turns dictator The time of Muammar al-Gaddafi as Libyan head of state seems to come to an end. Although the dictator tries anything to remain in power, protestors keep defying the military. Benghazi, the second biggest city of the North African state, is already... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation – "The theatre can't do without life" This is one of Christoph Schlingensief's principle concepts. This attitude of the German avantgarde artist led to a police station turning into the main stage and the down and outs of Hamburg Central Station into the main actors, when Schlingensie... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Insider Wolfgang Mueller talks to the Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger. On his first visit to Australia he is meeting Kevin Rudd to discuss possibilities of political cooperation. His second interview partner today is Christoph Leitl, the pr... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Way Back: Next masterpiece of Dallwitz and Weir? Burkhard Dallwitz's music is world-famous and his showcase is filled with prestigious awards. By cooperating with the successful movie director Peter Weir, the German-Australian film composer made it to the top. The latest cooperation of the two a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bookworms move to the World Wide Web According to opinions of experts, traditional book stores will have difficulties to survive. The reason: More and more people buy their tomes on the internet to keep down costs. Nevertheless, there are shops that compete on the market. Oliver Heut... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 110217 POD PROGR 1 Anna Scheer Schlingensief to be filled in Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stock exchange merger – A global trend Frankfurt and New York are about to create the biggest place of stock trading worldwide. The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) also attracts attention; especially from their counterparts in Singapore. The city state plans to spend more than eight bi... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Valentine’s Day: Don’t forget guys! One person's joy, another's sorrow: The attitude towards Valentines Day can be very different. Men either tend to forget or regard it as an annoying commercial event. Women are looking forward to receive flowers or being invited to a romantic dinn... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kleist meets Meinhof What would the 18th century German writer Heinrich von Kleist and the RAF terrorist and journalist Ulrike Meinhof have to say to each other? In her book The Luminosity of the Night author Dagmar Leupold sets up an experiment that sends the literar... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking for the right treatment When it comes to health, opinions are divided: While some prefer the classical method of consulting a doctor, others choose alternative healing methods. In Australia, too homeopathy is becoming more and more popular. Oliver Heuthe speaks with the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Uprising in Egypt: Reflection of history? In Egypt, protests against President Husni Mubarak continue and intensify. Bloody street fights between opponents and supporters occur on a daily basis. Oliver Heuthe speaks with the German-speaking Egypt insider Katja Fares about the situation in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On discovery tour in Healesville Sanctuary The Yarra Valley in the north-east of Melbourne is the home of numerous wild animals. In the Sanctuary, some highlights are koalas, platypuses or majestical birds which the people can admire in their original Australian environment. Matthias Winke... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A German boost for the A-League The Australian Soccer League becomes more and more a pool for German players. After Thomas Broich, a second professional of the 1. 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Immigrants in Australia often find themselves in search for their identity. On the one hand, they still feel associated with their home countries; on the other, they have found a new home in Down Under. In her film, Eibe Maleen Krebs investigates ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Real Estate prices affected by flood disaster There is hardly any other country, where property prices are as high as in Australia. An international comparison between the metropolitan areas illustrates that houses in Melbourne and Sydney can almost exclusively only be financed by top earners... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website China and Australia - A fragile relationship Dr Gerhard Hoffstaedter is a German Research Fellow at Melbourne's La Trobe University. He has just returned from China, where he taught Australian Studies to a growing number of Chinese students who seek to further their knowledge of all things D... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Immigration Nation, final remarks Nach der dreiteiligen SBS-Dokumentation Immigration Nation zieht Oliver Heuthe mit den Hörern ein Fazit zur Einwanderungspolitik. Trotz Reformen und der Abkehr von der White Australia Politik bleiben viele Fragen offen: Was ist so toll an Austral... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The oldest zoo of Australia The Melbourne Zoo is nearly 150 years old. It is a sanctuary for 300 species of animals, from Australia and all over the world. Many visitors come not only for watching the animals, but also to picnick. Matthias Winkelmann explored the zoo togethe... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What now, after the floods? Sybille Goss, President of the Swiss Society of Queensland and Mark Godat, both living in Brisbane, talk about the incredible damage the flooding has caused. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The end of the White Australia policy The third part of the SBS-documentary Immigration Nation shows the development of Australias policy towards immigrants in the last decades. The White Australia policy was officially abolished in 1972 under Prime Minister Whitlam. Pamela Rauleder h... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hard tons in the living room The music is loud, fast, and very hard. After it emerged in the 70s, it was reviewed very critically for a long time. By now it has many fans and has entered the living rooms of many. Matthias Winkelmann takes a closer look on Heavy Metal. He talk... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An exciting week of competitive racing Melbournes Royal Brighton Yacht Club recently hosted the Dragon World Championships. Many German teams made their way to Melbournes Port Phillip for this exciting week of competitive racing. One of them is former world champion Thomas Muller. Pame... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sturmflut in Germany - A listener recalls the ordeal 20 people are dead after the recent floods in Queensland. Grave fears are held for a further ten. The material damage is huge too, an estimated 20 billion Dollars. The tragic events and images from Queensland remind many Germans in Australia of th... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Australia: an escape from war torn Europe The second part of the SBS documentary Immigration Nation explains the time after the Second World War. In particular, it investigates the problems immigrants were confronted with, such as a lack of English skills. In Pünktlich um 9, Oliver Heuth... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Queensland's flood: The challenge ahead The worst is over, the water is gone. However, Queensland is facing a massive effort to clean its capital and the surrounding towns of waste and flotsam. In a special report, Oliver Heuthe summarises the latest developments and speaks with corresp... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Australia: Immigration Nation Part 2 It is hailed to be one of the most ambitious TV productions in 2011. The three-part SBS documentary Immigration Nation sheds light on the development of immigration policies over the past 100 years. Patrick Wauthier takes a look at part two, which... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Small animal celebreties They are cute, loved and pretty famous. The penguins in Philipp Island Nature Park. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Australia: the Immigration Nation It is hailed to be one of the most ambitious TV productions in 2011. The three-part SBS documentary Immigration Nation sheds light on the development of immigration policies over the past 100 years. Just after federation in 1901, immigration doctr... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sudan before the referendum More than five years after a devestating civil war, the people of Southern Sudan are asked to decide about the future of their country. In the upcoming referendum, they will have the chance to vote for secession from the North. Many analysts belie... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Einwohner ertragen Flut mit Fassung Rockhampton has become the focus of international reporting about the floods. German tourist Sandra Sanner has spent the past two months in Rockhampton. She tells Oliver Heuthe, how the locals are calmly dealing with the water.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2011 – same as 2010? What will be different in 2011? In Pünktlich um 9 Oliver Heuthe explains the most important legislative change this year in Australia, the introduction of a parental leave scheme. Adrian Plitzco talks about prominent people in 2011. Listeners tel... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One story for each animal There are many different animals at Werribee Open Range Zoo, for example lions, rhinos, cheetahs and wild dogs. Many of them live in a big open range area. Guide John Holman has a lot to tell about each of them. Matthias Winkelmann went along and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2010: A look back 2010 saw many natural catastrophies, such as the quake in Haiti or the floods in Pakistan. There were also events that could have been prevented, such as the mine disaster in Chile, which luckily had a good outcome. In Europe, the common currency ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2010: A year of sports There were many highlights for German and Australian sports fans in 2010. Vettel becomes the youngest Formula One champ, the AFL Grand Final is being played twice and the World of soccer meets in South Africa. Matthias Winkelmann takes a look at t... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 24 hours, eight countries, eight concerts Setting a new world record is a great way to promote his new CD, Vicente Patiz thought. So he played in eight countries in only 24 hours. Some of his fans from Saxony even came to see him in Switzerland. He tells Robert Cramer, whether this audien... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No family, but racing around Christmas Most people spend the time after Christmas with their family, resting from stressful times before. The German racing cyclist Leif Lampater is different. He travels around half the world, after a busy year in Europe to compete in more races. Pamela... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where to go on New Years Eve? Some like it loud, some like it mellow. Which is the best place to go on New Years Eve in Australia? Is it an advantage that people are not allowed to use fireworks on their own, unlike in Germany? Our listeners think so. In Pünktlich um 9 Oliver... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A woman with a punch When Silke Amthauer puts on her gloves, she is not going to do some garden work or skiing in the mountains. She is a kickboxer. The boxing ring is her second home. Robert Cramer asked her, how she started and whether she could beat a two-meter-man... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Offshore-Sailing: Hobby and challenge Sailing towards the sun, thousands of kilometers away off the land, with high speed and without any motor. Offshore-Sailing can be challenging, as Benni Abels tells Robert Cramer. He loves sailing at night in particular.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Switzerland via Melbourne to China? Lukas Baumann, Swiss horseman and adventurer decided to return to Australia by car, in time for the Melbourne Cup Day 2009. He drove through 18 countries and across Australia to fulfill his dream. Lukas talks to Ursula Schappi about some memorable... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Australian Dancing “Mafia” in St. Gallen Robert Kelly, Australian choreographer and dance master travels between Australia and Switzerland where he regularly works with young dancers at the Melbourne Ballet Company and in St Gallen, at the exclusive international boarding school auf dem ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Switzerland via Melbourne to China? Lukas Baumann, Reiter und Pferde Enthusiast aus der Schweiz fuhr mit seinem alten Volvo über 37,000 Km um rechtzeitig bei der Melbourne Cup Vergabe 2009 mit dabei zu sein. Über dieses Abenteurer erzählt er Ursula Schappi und plant auch schon w... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is the Australian NBN financially viable? The latest business plan reveals the cost of the super project NBN: 36 billion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AI: Australia needs a more human refugee policy The asylum boat tragedy off Christmas Island has heated up the debate about refugee policy in Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding the perfect present for Christmas Every year the same questions: What is the perfect present for the beloved? How much money to spend? Statistics say, Australians spend 1200 dollar on presents for Christmas on average. Too much, says Oliver Heuthe, in Pünktlich um 9. Our listener... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Recollections of Christmas past in Germany Christmas is generally loaded with expectations. We are supposed to be joyful, merry, carefree and happy. These expectations are deeply rooted in our DNA, and are often based on our own recollections of Christmas past, especially from our childhoo... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Man from Snowy River While visiting the legendary Snowy River, Oliver Heuthe failed to meet Kirk Douglas, however, he experiences natural wonders that have a lot more to offer than faded memories of the classical movie. In the Snowy River National Park, located in Sou... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Riding Western style Many have dreamed of being a cowboy or cowgirl, when seeing film heros like John Wayne riding through the Wild West. Karin Ophaus has made her dream come true. She appreciates the time on horse back. Western Riding is her favourite discipline. Why... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rowing: Getting addicted to a sport Julia Ramm is one of only a few women, who participate in rowing competitions. It is a sport dominated by men. When she rowed the first time, she got addicted to this sport. She tells Robert Cramer, how much practise is needed and which rowing rou... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Refugee disaster: Any political consequences? Still it is not sure, how many people died on Wednesday, when their boat crashed against the rocks off Christmas Island. The faite of the refugees touches many. Now questions arise, whether the disaster could have been avoided, and if there will b... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding the Work-Life-Balance Especially in Australia it is a question, often asked: How to find the right Work-Life-Balance? It is not all about the balance between work and private life, but also about social activities one has to bring in line, says Professor Richard Streic... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christmas: A cooking challenge Christmas dinner is a challenge every year. It has to be special and should not take too much time. Otherwise, Christmas would become stressful. In Pünktlich um 9, Oliver Heuthe tries to figure out, how to deal with this challenge. He needs an id... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Granny goes AuPair Every year, thousands of young girls go abroad as an AuPair. They live with a host family in a completely new city and experience a whole new life. Michaela Hansen asked herself why this AuPair concept is not available for women around fifty. That... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The case Wikileaks The whole world is upset since the internet platform Wikileaks has published secret documents from American diplomats, which contain personal profiles of world leaders. Now a political scientist has suggested to kill Wikileaks founder Julian Assan... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Romania: Multicultural tradition? Romania has always been a country of many influences. Different countries claimed their rights to rule it. That is also the reason for Romanias many different culinary influences. However, there is one dish that could be described as traditionally... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website France: Crepe crush Have you ever thought about the difference between a crepe and a galette? Maybe you were noy even aware that there is one. Patrick Wauthier finds out about these French couriosities.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Russia: Traditional Stu A lot of people would think of Russia if they read Borscht on a menu. But: Strictly speaking Borscht comes from the country that is the Ukraine nowadays. Nevertheless, Borscht is a popular dish today and there are lots of different recipes to prep... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art made by guitars Adelaide has been host of the International Guitar Festival. Guitarists from South Korea, Israel, Hungary, Germany and of course Australia were in competition. The price, lots of money and a handmade instrument, was won by a woman from South Korea... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Holland’s mashed meal Compared to Hollands national dish mashed potatoes are boring. Germanys neighbour has its own version of mashed potatoes and this comes along with a lot more than just potatoes. Adrian Plitzco tries to cook Stamppott.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Viva Italia! Italian cuisine is one of the most popular cuisines in the whole world. But what is it that makes it that special? Spaghetti? Gnocchi? Tiramisu? Christian Froelicher takes a closer look at Italian dishes and their history.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The future of education (6/6): Poor yet smart In Australia students wear their school uniform every day. Therefore, nobody can figure out who has got enough money to buy expensive clothes and who has not. In Germany there are no school uniforms. Indeed, the clothes have a big influence on the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Norway: Fishy favourite? Could you name the national dish of Norway? No? Then you are not alone, as hardly anyone knows the cuisine from the far north. Fish is considered to be the main ingredient, but is that true? Adrian Plitzco takes a closer look. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Switzerland: potatoe pancake A lot of people like pancakes for breakfast. People in Switzerland also like pancakes but they prepare them quite differently by making the dough out of sliced potatoes. And then they call them Rösti. Adrian Plitzco finds out where this recipe co... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning to calm down Most Australians know Andechs Abbey in Bavarian Germany only from the Oktoberfest. However, the abbey is not only known for its beer. There is a lot more going on. For example, abbey head Johannes Eckert helps people to find their inner calm. He l... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hesse, Germany: Green gravy Normally you should be careful if your food turns green. However, not in this case. The green sauce is a well known dip in Frankfurt, Germany and it is said that even Johann Wolfgang von Goethe loved it. But what exactly is green sauce? Pamela Rau... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maritime Croatia: Obstacle: Octopus If you want to prepare something traditional of Croatias cuisine you have to be prepared: If you are scared of tentacles then you should look for some help. Feta stuffed octopus is a delicacy in the maritime part of Croatia. Pamela Rauleder takes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are You happy? It is one of the fundamental questions of life; how to become happy. Is happiness created by short enjoyable moments of silence and serenity? Or can we achieve a state of happiness by other means? In Pünktlich um 9 Oliver Heuthe picks up that top... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 25 Years Sacci (Swiss-Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry) Sacci is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year. To mark this occasion and "to tell the story" Philip Hocking, the Chamber's current President and Marcel Svatos, National General Manager, tell Ursula Schappi about the chamber's outlook, wherea... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website North Korea The exchange of artillery fire between North and South Korea renewed fears of a violent confrontation on the peninsula. China is regarded as key for the management of the communist North. But how will China's own agenda influence the peninsula? Is... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Every vote will shape Victoria" With this slogan on radio and TV Victorians are encouraged to cast their votes on Saturday. However, the question is: Who are the candidates? Where are they from? What have they already done? Pamela Rauleder examines the biography of Ted Bailli... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Every vote will shape Victoria" With this slogan on radio and TV Victorians are encouraged to cast their votes on Saturday. However, the question is: Who are the candidates? Where are they from? What have they already done? Oliver Heuthe examines the biography of Premier John... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dancing memories Ho can one dance memories of the holocaust? By exploring ones personal story and interactions with others. This is what the german dancer and choreographer Jochen Roller does in his latest work. Pamela Rauleder spoke with Roller about his producti... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Report Most Americans are dismayed about the state of the US economy with unemployment near 10 per cent and predictions of sluggish economic growth in 2011. Who is getting the blame for the mess? Former SBS Executive Producer Thomas de Vogt is checking t... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation – Wolfgang Muthspiel In the second part of my conversation with internationally acclaimed guitarist and composer Wolfgang Muthspiel well talk about the multicultural aspects of his art musical processes involved in especially the production of the CD Glow. Created in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The future of education (5/6): Culture in class Australia has always been a country with a multicultural fingerprint. This awareness has a big influence on students who are put together in one multicultural class. In contrast, people in Germany discuss the idea of such a cultural controversial ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talent on TV Stella Zigouras from Melbourne recently participated in the show Das Supertalent in Germany. There she impressed everyone with her beautiful voice. The audience was delighted - but not the jury. Oliver Heuthe speaks with Stella about her experien... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Journey of the German language Learning German may not be easy. However, a lot of students here in Australia do it - and even like it. The Goethe institute named 2010 the year of the German language. That is why there are many different campaigns still going on. Echo 2010 - the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flying baking tray? Tina Winter knows all about that- sort of… . She spends her leisure time not throwing baking trays but playing Frisbee. She told Luise Ritter what is so special about that hobby and about the different techniques of throwing the round disc. &... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Ever After The beautiful Belle shows us: It is possible to fall truly in love with an ugly beast. And then this beast even becomes a prince. Walt Disneys classic fairy tales have deeply influenced whole generations. And still they are popular today. However,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dream job in the Australian bush Peter Brendt is a member of Australias legendary Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS). The German-born medical doctor uses his expertise to help car crash victims and other fellow Australians. His patients are often in need of urgent medical attenti... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Management misery? Employer or employee - that is the question. Employees expect certain characteristics from their employers. However, what is it that makes an employer a good employer? What does a leader have to know, how should he or she treat employees? In Pünk... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschaftsreport & Berliner Philharmoniker World famous Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra is touring Asia and Australia on board a chartered Lufthansa 747 wide-bodied jet. Its the first time, the orchestra from Germanys capital is presenting itself in Australia. Flying the 128 musicians from c... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation - Wolfgang Muthspiel The internationally acclaimed guitarist and composer from Austria is one of the guests of this years Adelaide International Guitar Festival which runs from November 25 to 28. Together with his long-term colleague Dhafer Youssef, Wolfgang Muthspiel... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Future of education: Cooperation instead of Competition It is not that easy when many different characters are put together in one class at school. There are various personalities, everybody needs a certain time to comprehend and of course there is always a few who do not like each other. In the fourth... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The story of Germans in Australia during WW I Being German in Australia wasnt always easy. During the First World War, many ethnic Germans were rounded up and sent to internment camps. The so called German concentration camps became the home for many Germans during the war years, where they w... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business report: Berlin needs the Australian Dollar Berlin is known as Germanys cultural hotspot and since German reunification, it has become very attractive. However, Berlin has problems, especially when it comes to economics. Now the city has launched a campaign that should attract foreign inves... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forest fever Hunting is not what you would call a usual thing to do in your leisure time. However, Georg Staudter does exactly that. He is a trained hunter and spends his nights out in the Palatine forest waiting for wild pigs and deer. But he doesnt just shoo... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World Champion 2010 Hes the youngest Formula One Champion in History: Sebastian Vettel. The German-born hero, who lives in Switzerland and drives for an Austrian team, grabbed the title on Sunday (14 November), beating dual World Champion Fernando Alonso of Spain and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Second Generation Germans in Melbourne Cathrin Vesna Bernhardt is a PhD Candidate in the Anthropology Program at La Trobe Universitys School of Social Sciences. Her PhD is on Consuming identity: Second Generation Germans in Melbourne. The final results wont be known for a few years. Ho... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Our" new church pastor in Sydney Daniela Konraedi is the new pastor of the German Lutheran Church in Sydney. She grew up in the former GDR and migrated to the West in 1988. She studied in Hamburg and worked for many years in Germany, before coming to Australia in August 2010. Lis... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Musical battle of generations Traditional German tunes - the so called Volksmusik - divides the nation. Usually, people about 60 years and over are pleased to hear these tunes, whereas younger people are horrified by them. But in fact, Volksmusik is not the same as volkstümli... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation – Where are those shoes now? A few months ago we heard about wordlysoles.org, an independent aid organisation, instigated by the dynamic German-Australian Volker Euler. Today he tells us about the astonishing experiences he had to make when trying to send 10s of 1000s of coll... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Report & Jobs for Germans Australia is a clever country that exports some world-leading products. Poligras is an artificial turf made in Melbourne that has provided the stage for exciting hockey matches at several Olympic Games. CEO Martin Schlegel tells the Wirtschaftsrep... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lotte’s gift Every family has its own history. Sometimes these histories are fortunate, sometimes theyre tragic and sometimes theyre inspiring enough to make it to the stage. Karin Schaupp and her guitar are both the sole ingredients and part of the story of t... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “Ish bin ain Berliner“ A lot of Australians want to learn German. Unfortunately, when it comes to dialects German is less disciplined than its regulations would suggest. The Goethe institute tries to help out, with lessons in the Berlin dialect for example. Luise Ritter... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business report: Electric independence? Ceramic Fuel Cells is the name of a business in Melbourne that may lead us into a new era. The engineers there have developed practical fuel cells that transform fuel directly into electric power. The technology could make consumers more independe... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Word play Language is a powerful tool. The crux is: We use our language as if it wasnt anything special. Few people think about how they use language. Someone who thinks about language a lot is Bas Boettcher. He regularly performs at Poetry Slam Shows. Luis... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elastic joints Lorraine Christmann has a lot to do: Shes only 15 years old but besides school she goes to training five times a week - for three ours. Lorraine doesnt do a regular sport, she does rhythmic gymnastics. If youre thinking about aerobics, youre wrong... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Disco in Russian Dance music with eastern European influence is a huge hit around Europe and in Berlin. And Wladimir Kaminer plays a big part in this. Together with his colleges and his wife Olga he regularly organizes the so called Russendisko where he plays infe... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eat like the Austrian Emperor Even though Austria is not a monarchy any more, the Austrian cuisine can still make you feel like an Emperor. And its not just the many different flavours of coffee. Austrias cakes and desserts are well known all over the world. Pastry cook Christ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The future of education – part 3: Full-time school? Of course. While in Australia students spend most of their day at school, Germany is still discussing pros and cons of full-time schools. Even though most students can imagine better things to do than to spend their afternoons in school, Bernd Klewitz, scien... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Money costs more money! Last weeks interest rate rise by the Reserve Bank has not only been passed on but also been topped by some Australian banks. This rise sparks a new debate about new regulations in the finance sector. Politicians call the move of the banks an arrog... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poor but Sexy! These are the words once used by Lord Mayor Klaus Wowereit to describe Berlin. However, the German capital has come a long way since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Currently, the Berlin Dayz Festival shakes up the Australian art scene. We speak with... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation – What value has art? Sebastian Lang-Lessing talks in this continuation of his conversation with Trudi Latour about the value we allocate to classical music in our society. What differences can be observed in an international comparison? Since 2004 chief conductor and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Report & Jobs for Germans Food safety and consumer protection are rapidly gaining global importance as food exports soar across the globe. As populations grow and the demand for food rises, governments in many countries struggle to meet international food safety standards.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Good news for tax evaders? After years of quarrels and disagreements in the matter of tax evasion Switzerland and Germany have now signed a contract that promises better cooperation between the two countries. Therefore, tax evaders from Germany who have an untaxed bank acco... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The future of education: The horror of learning off by heart Can you still remember the dates or poems that you had to learn off by heart in school? In former times, learning off by heart was a standard method for the education of students. Today, a lot of experts say that this technique is obsolete. Bernd ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Food from a hole Keeping food in a hole? Waltraud Froihofer knows how and why. On her farm in the Fischbacher Alps in Austria she prepares Grubenkraut. This method of covering cabbage has almost been forgotten, but Waltraud Froihofer wants to keep it alive. She to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The sparkling pear Legally, champagne can only be called champagne when it is produced in the French region of the same name. But Jörg Geiger in Swabia, Germany manufactures a sparkling wine that he himself would like to call the better champagne. For this he uses ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gliding away Kai Spielberger wants to make his personal dream come true: being a pilot. At the moment he is training to become an air controller, and is working on his license for gliding. Kai tells Luise Ritter about the amazing feeling of being up in the air... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My car is my first love Everyone who owns a car knows the special relationship that can connect you with it. Especially the very first car may raise sweet memories of independence and youth. Nowadays, cars are not just cars, they are compact wonders of new technology. Ed... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Austrian-Australian party Nobody in Austria has to go to work on October the 26st: Its the national holiday there. Thats also a good reason for the Austrian Club in Melbourne to celebrate. And even the Austrian ambassador Hannes Porias joins the party. Patrick Wauthier tal... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation – Sebastian Lang-Lessing Dynamic, enthusiastic and at the top of his class, the internationally renowned conductor was born in Germany and started his career as permanent conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1993. Since then he has been engaged by opera houses and orc... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirtschaftsreport & Jobs for Germans The process of cleaning life threatening toxins from the blood of patients with kidney failure requires large amounts of water and electricity. Tests in Victoria are now exploring ways to reduce the amount of energy used in this process. The SBS ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Report & Jobs for Germans Chancellor Angela Merkel has declared multiculturalism in Germany an absolute failure. The admission has caused a global stir. Foreign Correspondent Barbara Bierach and Dr. Oliver Hartwich from the Centre for Independent Studies discuss what trigg... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation – Emma Pearson The award winning soprano was born in Australia, but now lives in Germany, where she is engaged as an ensemble member at the Hessisches Staatstheater. She talks with Trudi Latour, mainly in German, about the current Opera Australia production of t... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Future of education: What about schools in the 21st century? In Australia young people like to go to school. Students live their lives at school, not outside of it. In Germany, students get up early, try to absorb concentrated knowledge and are supposed to spend their afternoons doing homework. Thats roughl... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anything is possible! Six days, ten hours and 42 minutes, that's how long it takes to cross the Australian continent in a special wheelchair. Four Austrian quadriplegic athletes set out to show that anything is possible. After 4000 kilometres they were welcomed at the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nature versus infrastructure On the one hand, living in a big city has many advantages: There is lots to see and to experience, there are great offers of leisure facilities and on top of that, public transport eliminates the question how to get there. On the other hand, livin... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Student Exchange 2 For 14 years, Bernd Klewitz has been organising school exchange trips between Germany and Australia. After their arrival in Australia, students are taken to the Great Ocean Road, in Germany on the other hand, students get to see castles along the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German literature in Melbourne Literature is educating, enriching and can be precious, especially when it is in a language not spoken in you country of residence. Many Germans have to go on the internet or even fly home, in order to get their fair share of German books, magazin... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dusty history-news in a new environment Being an archaeologist is not an easy job. They have to dig through the dust on the floor in order to lift the dusty curtain of blurry history to learn more about peoples lives thousands of years ago. The egyptologist Dietrich Wildung explains to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Riding the rocking horse There is nothing special about wood? Yes there is! Whereas wood is surrounding our everyday life hardly anyone thinks about this natural resource, its different kinds and their ways of manufacturing. Oliver Heuthe takes a closer look at the Timber... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Free time knock-out?! Sometimes Juliane is not able to put on a skirt and a t-shirt in summertime: She has too many bruises and scratches all over her knees and arms. And the clue is: She does not even mind it. Julianes hobby is Karate. But Karate is not just about bea... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Free time knock-out?! Sometimes Juliane is not able to put on a skirt and a t-shirt in summertime: She has too many bruises and scratches all over her knees and arms. And the clue is: She does not even mind it. Julianes hobby is Karate. But Karate is not just about bea... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greek lasagne Olive oil, garlic and ouzo: There is a lot of prejudice against Greek cuisine. But in fact, Greeces isles claim many culinary characteristics. Achilles Yiangoulli from Cyprus knows about the special habits when Cypriots cook. Together with Luise R... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Australian Dream?! Fascinating landscapes, the taste of pure nature, mega cities like Melbourne and Sydney: Australia attracts a lot of people. Some just travel to the countryside, others decide to live here permanently. But a new start is not always an easy one. Fi... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thinking of Basel.... The "Roesti Clique" a group of drummers and fifers in Sydney nurture their memories of the BaslerFasnacht, or carneval. The group meets for practice in a park in the centre of Sydney. Here they talk about their motivation of keepig up their skill... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In-depth report: Lots of sun and no energy Australia is known as one of the sunniest places in the world. Therefore, using solar power to produce clean electricity should not be a problem. However, hardly any Australian takes advantage of this renewable resource. But now things change: Aus... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Future of Design Design changes according to our habits and lifestyle. We invited the design-expert Volker Albus who tells us about what a future apartment could look like. His Berlin-Dayz-exhibition „Somewhat different: Contemporary Design and the Power of Conv... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Report & Jobs for Germans Some of Australia biggest businesses are worried about their future profits as our soaring dollar is reducing overseas earnings and stock values. Many Australian investors blame the US for letting its currency slip deliberately in order to gain... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation – Running from the GDR Currently we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the reunification of Germany, a political event of possible greater global political and economic ramifications that any other over the past decades. Giving life to history, Holger Scholz tells ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michel Jungo, der Optimist Michel Jungo is Chief Planner in the production of fibre-optic components required for broadband connections. He is curious by nature and believes that new learning and cooperation will lead to the development of a cleaner Australian industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Multilingual education: a chance for our children? In days of globalisation being able to speak many languages is always a plus. But to learn a new language can be very difficult for stressed adults. So growing up multilingually is a great chance for children. But of course children don`t realise ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Multilingual education: German schools in foreign countries In 1575, the first German school was founded in a foreign country - in Copenhagen, Denmark. 25 years ago, Australia got his very own first German school in Sydney. Oliver Heuthe takes a look at the history of bilingual education abroad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Multilingual education: Fröbel-Kindergarten Sydney Learning a foreign language is easier at a young age. The German Fröbel-Kindergarten Sydney has its focus on bilingual education. Oliver Heuthe asks the director of the kindergarten Olde Lorenzen; how they manage to reach their goals? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Multilingual education: 30 years German school New York 30 years ago, the German school New York opened its gates to students from a large variety of backgrounds. However, the school aims to educate students in German and English, providing them with linguistic skills for life. Oliver Heuthe asks headm... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 071010 Wirtschaft & Jobs to be filled in Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 101007 PROGR Broadband 1 FINAL to be filled in Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What does the future hold for museums? Dietrich Wildung is an expert on Ancient Egypt. Besides running excavations in the Sahara desert, he is also experienced in making museums a success, even though expectations of a younger audience have changed significantly. Wildung is currently i... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation – Eva Haas and Berti Ludwig 2 How does an intense time such as the year-long trip across many remote regions and across 4000 m High Mountain passes, by pushbike, influence a relationship? And how does such an unusual adventure affect ones world view and future plans? These are... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 100930 Business Report & Jobs for Germans Is Middle Australia being pushed out of the justice system by soaring court costs? Solicitor Dr Wolfgang Babeck tells the SBS Radio Wirtschaftsreport with Wolfgang Mueller that the soaring cost of justice has to be urgently addressed. Re... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fabian Cancellara: A legend on wheels In Geelong, eine Autostunde westlich von Melbourne, beginnt heute die Rad-Weltmeisterschaft. Sie dauert bis Sonntag. Aus Deutschland sind neun Profis angereist, auch Österreich ist mit dabei. Die Schweiz schickt 10 Profis ins Rennen, darunter Fab... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Speeding in Australia – an expensive adventure In Pünktlich um 9 we ask our listeners about their experiences with fines for speeding and false parking. Is it safer on Australian roads than on the German Autobahn, because of the speed limits? Oliver Heuthe and Robert Cramer have a little stor... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Multicultural Health Services Dr Astrid Perry, Area Manager, Multicultural Health, South Eastern Sydney/ Illawarra talks about her team's outreach programs to migrant communities to explain the kinds of services that are available in their region. (in Swiss-German) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Europes shifts to the right Swedens election result are in line with an overall European trend: a hardly-known small right-wing party enters parliament. We discuss the goals of far-right parties in Europe and ask how they succeed in winning over voters. Oliver Heuthe investi... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation – Eva Haas and Berti Ludwig One way to safe on greenhouse gases is to us a pushbike. You might need some time however, especially if you are travelling from Australia to Germany. Eva and Berti tell us about the unusual hospitality they experienced along the way, including th... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Report & Jobs for Germans The Reserve Bank has given a clear sign it's ready to lift interest rates if Australias economic strength continues to push up inflation. Thats bad news for many business operators and farmers in Australias two-speed economy says economic expert... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melbourne – the poetry map Discover Melbourne in a very different way: the Melbourne-Poetry-Map is a website with which you can explore e.g. the Victoria Markets or the State library with an audio partner. Artists from Melbourne have written poems and Pamela Rauleder gave i... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Switch On: Radio for the young generation In Switch On we discuss if young people should be forced to do social services. We have a report about two Germans who made millions of Euros with social engagement. Besides that we present our new series about extreme hobbies and Pamela and Rober... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pünktlich um 9: German Oktoberfest In September 1810 the Oktoberfest opened its gates for the first time in Munich. Now, 200 years later it is the biggest beer-festival in the world. Every year six million visitors come to Munich to celebrate Bavarian traditions. Oliver Heuthe and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lehman brothers – 2 years after the collapse Two years ago the Lehman Bank caused a big collapse on the financial markets all over the world. In our in-depth report we speak to a broker who worked for Lehman; the advocate Dr. Alexander Schaar who represents victims and an expert on finances ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation – Volker Euler II What type of climate change policies will this new Australian Government be able to come up with? What concessions are the different players willing to make? What is the best for the economy? Trudi Latour discusses some of the options for the newl... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Report & Jobs for Germans Australia has a new government but the nations first female PM will need all her talents to keep an upper hand when the political ambitions of her ministers and her party clash with the interests of the Independents and the Greens in Parliament. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lokal 03: German bread, cakes and pretzeln If you are looking for good German pastries and bread in Victoria, you need to go no further than Mornington, one hour south of the Melbourne CBD. A German baker prepares everything like her great-grand-father decades ago. Pamela Rauleder tasted s... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aftershocks in New Zealand: state of emergency After the big earthquake on 7th of September there are still aftershocks in New Zealand. One day after the big quake Oliver Heuthe spoke to Lisa Willert in Christchurch. When the mega quake hit, the young German was only 15 kilometres away from th... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Switch On: Monash students in the studio In Switch On we talk about German studies at the Monash Uni and welcome some students in the studio. They tell us about the German week at Monash and especially about their first radio experiences in an SBS workshop. Besides that Pamela and Robert...