This week we'll see how Beethoven is inspiring Iraqi youth. We'll also see how German and Polish artists are not that different and see when a book becomes a piece of world literature.

This week: The Myth of the Alps exhibit, Pianist Ragna Schrimer, Innovative Architecture

This week: A Cold War Comedy that came true; A visit to Pyongyang, North Korea; The Manhattan Art Scene

This week: An architectural pilgrimage to a village in the Swiss Alps and a new website for artists and writers who want to deal with the with the war in the Balkans

This week: The Wagner Festival, Expensive Art vs Good Art, a Landscape Gardener in Saudi Arabia

This Week: A film on the life of an African aide worker; A look at the Syrian revolution; How does the World Heritage Site list work?: Globetrotting with the Goethe Institute

This Week: Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei is freed; Opera Diva Waltraud Meier and Russian writer Mikhail Shiskin.

This week: Censorship threatens Turkish writers; The World's Biggest Art Fair and Dancing in Berlin

Berlin's young artists; Terry Eagleton on Evil; a nuclear power plant documentary and the impact of Ikea

We'll visit the Cannes Film Festival and talk with East Germand Photographer Thomas Hopker. We'll also hear from a Berlin composer about Chopin

Japanese Filmmakers react to the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster and an artist inspired by lava stones

This week: Curators of the Vienna Biennale talk about their search for art and artists; What makes Pop Videos Museum Quality?; A new look at postwar painter Eugen Schonebeck

A tribute to poet Heinrich von Kleist; Fiction and Stage Plays about the Afghanistan war; Stephane Hessel, former WWII resistance fighter and diplomat

This week: The story of a contemporary Chinese artist under arrest; The murder of a Jewish-Arab actor and director; Photographer Thomas Struth

As the Japan nuclear crisis deepens Deutsche Welle examines the controversial choice of Gorleben as a temporary storage facility for nuclear waste. After 3 decades of study and debate Germany may have to start at the beginning to find a solution.

A conversation with Museum Director Chris Dercon; a concrete sculpture that is really a hydroelectric dam; how arab artists are supporting the revolution in the middle east

This week: Chernobyl 25 years later, Stuttgart Urban Renewal and Serbian Literature