Hertha BSC, the city’s premier soccer club, celebrated 30 years of unity after the fall of the Berlin Wall and advocated for a tolerant, open-minded world with the Tear Down Walls Tour through the United States. Before their game at Allianz field in St Paul, Minnesota, the Hertha players and coaches visited Twin Cities Immersion School, the largest school of its kind in the United States, to speak to classes and kick around with students.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier opened a historic joint concert featuring Leipzig’s renowned Gewandhausorchester and the Boston Symphony Orchestra – the first of its kind featuring two world-class orchestras on a single stage.

Digital artists and musicians flocked to San Francisco, California for MUTEK.SF, the American iteration of the genre-breaking festival celebrating the cutting edge in music, art, and technology originally held in Montreal, Canada. The four-day festival took place March 2-5 in venues across San Francisco and featured a blend of international luminaries with artists from the local community. Among these were three German artists who brought their own take on visual effects and digital art to an American audience: Dopplereffekt, Emptyset, and Aisha Devi.