Heinrich Theodor Böll was born on December 21, 1917 in Cologne.  His father was a sculptor and cabinet-maker. Böll’s Catholic, pacifist family opposed the rise of Nazism.  Between 1924 and 1928, the future writer attended elementary school in Köln Raderthal, and from 1928 to 1937, the state-run Kaiser-Wilhelm classical secondary school in Cologne. … [Read more...]

Carl Zeiss (September 11, 1816—December 3, 1888) was a German industrialist who gained a worldwide reputation as a manufacturer of fine optical instruments. The firm of Carl Zeiss grew to one of the largest and most respected optical firms in the world. Carl showed an interest in technical studies very early, to the extent that he attended … [Read more...]

Immanuel Kant didn’t just redefine philosophy—he revolutionized it. The 18th-century German thinker changed how we understand knowledge, ethics, and human autonomy. But his writing, while profound, is famously dense. That’s why Kant’s most powerful ideas often shine brightest in his quotes—compact insights that reveal his deep concern with reason, … [Read more...]

Here you can find the best  Quotes of Albert Einstein - a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your … [Read more...]

“From my thirteenth year on, it was clear to me that I wanted to be either a poet or nothing at all." ("Life Story Briefly Told" H.Hesse) Hermann Hesse’s creativity has explored the duality of nature and individual's spiritual search, breaking all social rules. His novels “Steppenwolf”, “Demian, Siddhartha”,“The Glass Bead Game” have sold in … [Read more...]

Otto Gerhard Waalkes (born 22 July 1948 in Emden, Germany) is a Frisian comedian and actor. Otto Waalkes became famous in the early 70s by drawing little childish elephants he called Ottifants ('Ottiphants'). Later, he went on tour, brandishing a guitar and accompanied by Ottifants. Later still he branched into film, shooting Otto: The Movie and … [Read more...]

The Möbius strip or Möbius band is a surface with only one side and only one boundary component. The Möbius strip has the mathematical property of being non-orientable. It can be realized as a ruled surface. It was discovered independently by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing in 1858. August Ferdinand … [Read more...]

Imagine a world where morality doesn’t depend on consequences, but on intent. A world where knowledge is not discovered, but actively constructed by the human mind. Welcome to the thought-world of Immanuel Kant, one of the most influential philosophers in history-and the intellectual engine behind much of modern ethics, political theory, … [Read more...]

Clara Schumann was trained from the age of 5 with her father, the well-known piano pedagogue Friedrich Wieck. Prior to beginning her lessons, young Clara had only uttered her first words some time between 4 and 5 years old. In fact, she described herself as understanding as little as she spoke and as having disinterest in all that was passing … [Read more...]

Johannes Brahms is the German composer and is called the Beethoven’s true successor in the German music. Johannes Brahms was born in 1833 in Hamburg, however, the most important and latest part of his life devoted to Vienna. Brahms started his composing being inspired by the Hungarian and German folklore music and later became a genius of sublime … [Read more...]