http://www.newcomers-network.de/The Expat Community in Frankfurt-Rhein-Main2010-08-01 02:08:01 The chief of Germany's biggest bank, Deutsche Bank AG, was the nation's top paid manager last year with a pay packet of 9.6 million euros (12.5 million dollars), a survey released Friday showed. Josef Ackermann, 62, came in ahead of RWE energy group chief Juergen Grossmann, who earned 7http://www.newcomers-network.de/german_news/100730Deutsche_Bank_s_Josef_Ackermann_heads_up.php2010-07-30 17:38:01German television weatherman Joerg Kachelmann, accused of raping his partner and holding a kitchen knife to her throat, was released from custody pending trial Thursday, court officials announced. Kachelmann, 52, was arrested and remanded into custody in March after being charged with assaulting his long-time girlfriend in their apartment following an argumenthttp://www.newcomers-network.de/german_news/100729German_weatherman_released_from_custody.php2010-07-29 13:18:01Hello I am looking for a tandem partner to speak English or Italian. I could offer German instead. Look forward to hearing from you. Best regards Estherhttp://www.newcomers-network.de/forums/index.php?showtopic=15262010-07-28 21:38:02The billionaire co-founder of the international supermarket chain Aldi, Theo Albrecht, has died aged 88, the company said Wednesday. Albrecht and his older brother Karl co-founded the supermarket in their home city of Essen, Germany, after World War IIhttp://www.newcomers-network.de/german_news/100728Aldi_supermarket_co_founder_dies_aged_88.php2010-07-28 17:28:02The blame game intensified Tuesday between the organizers, city planners and emergency services after the weekend crush at the Love Parade in Duisburg, Germany, in which 20 people died. Criticism focused on Duisburg's mayor Adolf Sauerland, who reportedly knew about town planners' security concerns four weeks ahead of the music festival, according to leaked notes from a meeting, seen by the WAZ media grouphttp://www.newcomers-network.de/german_news/100727ROUNDUP_Blame_game_intensifies_over_de.php2010-07-28 08:58:01Nearly quarter of a million people have so far seen taken the once-in-a-decade chance to see the renowned Oberammergau Passion Play, organisers in Germany said Tuesday. The play, chronicling the death of Jesus Christ, is only staged every 10 years, in the tiny Bavarian Alpine town of Oberammergauhttp://www.newcomers-network.de/features/100727Once_a_decade_German_Passion_Play_draws.php2010-07-28 08:48:01Love Parade organizer Rainer Schaller appeared Monday to shift the blame onto police for the weekend stampede which left 19 people dead, saying they made the decision to open more gates at the festival entrancehttp://www.newcomers-network.de/german_news/1007262ND_German_Love_Parade_boss_says_police.php2010-07-27 08:48:02State prosecutors in the German city of Duisburg began Sunday investigating the circumstances that led to the deaths of at least 19 people and hundreds of injuries at Saturday's Love Parade music festival, officials saidhttp://www.newcomers-network.de/german_news/1007253ND_Investigation_begun_into_19_deaths_a.php2010-07-26 10:28:02 Duisburg, Germany (dpa) - State prosecutors in the German city of Duisburg began Sunday investigating the circumstances that led to the deaths of at least 19 people and hundreds of injuries at Saturday's Love Parade music festival, officials saidhttp://www.newcomers-network.de/german_news/1007253ND_Investigation_begun_into_19_deaths_a.php2010-07-26 07:48:01Amongst Europeans it is a commonplace that, for understandable reasons given their turbulent recent history, Germans set a lot of store by stability. Which may explain why, according to opinion polls published Wednesday, Angela Merkel's at-times riotous centre-right coalition is at a record low in the opinion pollshttp://www.newcomers-network.de/features/100721Crisis_confirms_the_German_way_Merkel_s.php2010-07-23 09:18:01