The biggest news stories this October concern scientific breakthroughs and conflict in the Middle East.

Paula presents November's news. There are reports on immigration, sports, and—once again—extreme weather.

Through the Berlin-based project Klappe Auf!, pupils in rural Brandenburg made this short film on children’s rights, in particular those relating to privacy and nonviolence.

With the help of crowdfunding, German cartoonist Joscha Sauer produced NICHTLUSTIG (NOTFUNNY), an animated series starring his distinctive zany characters. NICHTLUSTIG—which centers on the Lemming Family—examines everyday and extraordinary situations with sarcasm, irony, and cynicism.

In Part 2 of Joscha Sauer’s irreverent animated short, Poodle is annoyed when an unexpected visitor shows up just as he and Death are about to have breakfast, the Lemming dad chatters away with an unusually quiet homeowner, and the scientists hatch a plan to recover their toilet.

NICHTLUSTIG is a cartoon by Joscha Sauer known for its crass and irreverent humor. In Part 3, an unexpected power outage leads to all kinds of confusion in the various households.

Chaos rages on in the various NICHTLUSTIG households! The power may be back on, but that’s created a whole other set of problems.

The Lemming family decides to buy the house after all, now that it appears to be sufficiently dangerous. And in the end, all those who died in the fire meet Death and Poodle, and joyfully proceed toward the light at the end of the tunnel…

“Das Tagebuch” (“The Diary”) is a one-year short film project by Jan Herdin that was created as part of the Media Design program at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences. Lisa is a lonely teenager growing up in a single-parent household. She finds it difficult to get along with her fellow classmates and has a crush on her teacher, Mr. Weber.

Mr. Weber finally understands what it is that Lisa wants from him – and lays down the law. Meanwhile, Dennis — furious at having been snitched on — runs off with Lisa’s diary.

In this short film, a child prepares to leave behind her familiar everyday life on Earth, and begin anew – on Mars.

After her apartment burns down under unexplained circumstances, a workaholic moves in with an old acquaintance from her school days. It’s clear that the two of them don’t really share a strong bond.

The two young women, both somewhat lost, ponder the loss — and meaning — of an apartment. In the end, they realize that you can also be happy in the rain…

Diane and Franca take us through the basics of the verb machen, which in this video has been translated as "to do." Depending on the context, machen could also mean "to make." Try it out both ways and viel Spaß beim Lernen!

Jenny and two friends take us through the conjugations for the verb wissen ("to know") in multiple tenses. Viel Spaß beim Deutschlernen!