The 2011 swimming season is now open! The people of Fehmarn, an island in the Baltic Sea, enjoy their first dip in the sea at pretty brisk air and water temperatures. Carina Kühl, from the Rural Youth Group Fehmarn, reports. Video provided by

In this second part of the report about Sebastian Vettel’s return to his hometown Heppenheim after the formula one victory in Abu Dhabi, he shows the audience that he also has a sense of humor.

In this report on RheinMain TV, the Wiesbaden Museum’s provenance researcher Peter Forster discusses his work researching works of art stolen from Jews during the Third Reich.

If you are into animation, check out this clip about the Twelfth International Weekend of Animation in Wiesbaden.

The concept is learning through rap. Conveying knowledge through rap music is what this different approach to learning is all about and it seems to catch on quickly with students.

On occasion of the commemoration of the Holocaust victims, Hesse’s Minister President Volker Bouffier visits the Isaak Emil Lichtigfeld School in Frankfurt and talks to the Jewish students about tolerance and mutual acceptance.

The party to celebrate Formula-One world champion Sebastian Vettel’s victory continues. His friend, the popular comedian of mixed Turkish and German descent, Bülent Ceylan, as well as the majority of the people of Heppenheim are at the party.

Diane has just ransomed herself from the claws of Markus, the soul snatcher, and already she abandons herself to the vice of gambling. Have fun with this second part of our Yabla Exclusive video from the Middle Ages. This Yabla exclusive video contains many expressions using the obsolete "Royal We" or Pluralis Majestatis.

The Paulskirche in Frankfurt temporarily houses an exhibition to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz. The theme is the persecution and annihilation of the Sinti and Roma.

The Story of Soup-Kaspar is an old children’s story from the 19th century which appeared together with a number of other moral stories in a book, written by German psychiatrist Heinrich Hoffmann, called Struwwelpeter.

In this RheinMain TV report provenance researcher Forster continues his account of how the Museum Wiesbaden came to own a large collection of stolen art from the Third Reich.

Hamburg is Germany’s second largest city and has a wide variety of attractions for young and old. RheinMain TV invites you to a virtual sightseeing tour of the city. Enjoy!

German comedian Michael Mittermeier produced a documentary about his Burmese collegue Zarganar, who was arrested and sentenced to 35 years imprisonment for joking about the Burmese regime. Mittermeier talks to “dpa video” about his documentary and the role of humor in the fight against totalitarian systems. Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

Do you believe in witches? In the Middle Ages many people did, and so-called witches were simply burned at the stake. Larissa Anton made a film about the history of witches.

German champion alpine ski racer Maria Riesch likes to show her glamorous side as well sometimes. In an elegant evening dress she celebrates her bronze medal win at the Kandahar slope at the trendy club P1 in Garmisch. Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]