At the Wie.MAI.KAI Convention in Wiesbaden, it’s all about Anime and Manga, ‘cosplay’ [an acronym for ‘costume’ and ‘play’] and other aspects of Japanese youth culture. A video from RheinMain TV

"Mama arbeitet wieder" (Mom’s Going Back to Work) is a German TV drama focusing on gender roles. For Mark, everything is perfect: he has a wife and two kids, a house, and a successful career as a construction engineer. But now, his traditional family is about to morph into a modern one.

In the series finale, Corinna finds Mark on her doorstep standing in the pouring rain. Judging from the melancholy French chanson in the credits, there seems to be a spark of hope for them.

The painter Katharina Kuczinski discusses how different viewers interpret her paintings differently.

In the third part of the interview with woman painter Katharina Kuczinski, we hear more about the key moments that brought her to painting, and about her experiences with exhibitions.

In this first segment, Yabla’s own reporter Diane interviews artist Monika Kaeser about her exhibition in the Faust Archive and Museum in Knittlingen, Baden-Württemberg. Ms. Kaeser takes impressions of carvings etched in the walls of medieval towers by those imprisoned there long ago and transforms them into fascinating watercolor images!

In this second of a two-part series, Diane resumes her interview with artist Monika Kaeser and our tour of her latest exhibition. Comprised, in part, of rubbings taken from medieval sites left by the socially ostracized, her work “in the present breathes [life into] the past and the future is born.”

Yabla's own Tina interviews the artist Benno Treiber and his wife about their fascinating work and their lives in Germany and Spain. Enjoy!

At the Majolika Ceramic Works in Karlsruhe, Cettina finds out about the origin of the Bambi, a German award for television and film. As it turns out, the small deer has become the symbol of Majolika due to their involvement with the design of the trophies.

Please come in and watch the great Yabla magician's magic show. He will not only mesmerize you. He will take your breath away!

Check out this interview with members of the indie rock band Madsen, who were about to go on stage at the Hessentag Festival with German bands Juli and Wir sind Helden. Brothers Johannes and Sascha Madsen discuss their music plans and how it’s best not to think about it when you are on the stage in front of 50,000 people. A short clip from their song “Mein Herz bleibt hier” [“My Heart Stays Here”] is included. Viel Spaß!

With “Leb deine Träume" [live your dreams], Luxuslärm present yet another catchy and sentimental song. Here is the official video.

Here is the official video for "Tell It Like It Is" (Sag es, wie es ist) by Luxuslärm.

Luxuslärm can rock the crowd live too, here with their song “Signs” [“Zeichen”].

In the second part of our interview, the German pop-rock band Luxuslärm talks about their plans for the immediate future.