“Many people live in the world; few live in an inner world. It is up to you to decide who should live in your inner world. The world is too[...]
MAINZ-KASTEL, Germany — Two years after Gyumri and Halle consolidated their twin-city relationship (https://mirrorspectator.com/2023/04/06/gyumri-and-halle-become-twin-cities/), now another two cities have established ties symbolizing a[...]
Gyumri is known informally as the cultural capital of Armenia and for good reason. In addition to its traditional excellence in the visual arts, it hosts several outstanding music schools[...]
BERLIN — Every April Germans join with Armenians to commemorate the victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, with prominent events in Berlin and Frankfurt organized by the Central Council of[...]
BERLIN — Art is a language, like poetry, but is visual. It speaks through metaphors and allegories, communicating across verbal language barriers, through images, figurative or abstract. An exhibition has[...]
WIESBADEN, Germany — On March 30, the Wiesbaden State Theater premiered a fantastic production of Giacomo Rossini’s comic opera, “The Barber of Seville,” with bass-baritone Hovhannes Karapetyan in the role[...]
YEREVAN/BERLIN — In the first presidential visit between the two nations, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived with his wife, Elke Büdenbender, on March 30 in Yerevan. Although a German president[...]
BERLIN — There is no mystery behind the fact that Armenian art, especially in the diaspora, bears the imprint of the genocide: directly, as in representational figurative art or literature;[...]
BERLIN — On January 17, the trials of 23 people illegally arrested by Azerbaijan as a result of the attack on Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in September 2023 began in Baku. Several[...]
WIESBADEN, Germany — A benefit concert took place here on Sunday, January 12, to raise funds for projects supporting Armenian refugees from Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh). The venue was the Anglican[...]
Except for April 24, recognized internationally as the anniversary of the beginning of the Ottoman genocide, it is not common practice for major German media to observe Armenian commemorations. Recently,[...]