Number of Chinese studying abroad is growing
By YAO Yuxin “Entschuldigung, ”Michael Mai, 19, says “excuse me” in German as he walks through a crowd. Mai, from Shenzhen, China, has been a freshman at Leipzig University in Germany for the last 10 months. Before Leipzig, Mai studied environmental science and...
East Germany’s only car, the unreliable Trabant, now a nostalgic collector’s item
By David Liu The iconic Trabant, the most common car in East Germany, was manufactured by VEB Sachsenring from 1957 to 1991, Two years after the Berlin Wall fell, the company made the last “Trabi,” marking an end to its 3-million-strong production. Equipped with a...
Learn to love and fear animals in the Leipzig Zoo
By Ng Man Kit Harry In 2010, a cross-eyed opossum named Heidi became an international star after a German tabloid featured of photo of the creature. With more than 180,000 Facebook followers and a song named after her, the beloved creature lived until the ripe old...
Mendelssohn: the musical engineer of Leipzig
by Steven Wang Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach, who lived in Leipzig, Germany for 27 years and died there, has become the calling card for the city. But 2 kilometers southeast of the Bach Museum and St Thomas Church, where Bach worked, is an inconspicuous...
Carmen: A passionless production
By Kumiko Lau photos courtesy of Bettina Stöß Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” may not be the most popular opera, but it certainly tops the favorites list of diva lovers. The opera not only features a flirtatious and tempestuous love story, but its well-known melodies...