This week, PopXport will pass a major milestone as it broadcasts its 300th episode. PopXport is DW’s music magazine that showcases excellent musicians and bands, highlights the latest trends and reports on major music events like the Berlin Music Week and the Echo Awards.

To celebrate this achievement, PopXport is looking for your help. Write to popxport@dw.de and tell us your opinion: What do you think about popXport? Everyone who participates will automatically take part in a drawing for an iPad mini.

The Strange World of max x., a Euromaxx series on DW, received gold at the New York Festivals. The quirky protagonist max x., played by British filmmaker David Packer, is a hapless hero, wrestling with the pitfalls and challenges of technology and modern life in his daily struggle for survival.  Last November, the series already won an Award of Excellence and an Award of Merit in the category Comedy Series at the Accolade Competition in California.

Difficult Past – A School and its Dark Nazi History, a segment in DW’s People and Politics series, was awarded bronze at the New York Festivals. An effort to understand and work through the trauma of the Holocaust is at the heart of the television production by DW journalist Alexander Feist. It traces the fate of Jewish students from the Friedrich Eugens Gymnasium, a German secondary school, during the Holocaust. Heinz Stern, a former student now residing in Israel, recounts his experiences nearly eight decades later.

 

Another first for DW: We will be broadcasting our first television series in Bengali starting April 13, 2013: Onneshon will cover science, technology, the environment and medicine and will be shown every Saturday at 6:30 pm as well as Sunday at 1:30 am and 3:30 pm on Ekushey TV in Bangladesh. Onneshon is produced by DW’s Bengali team in Bonn and will be hosted by DW’s Debarati Guha.

In addition to presenting the latest scientific developments, our reporters will also report on the different aspects of everyday life in Germany and comment on the sometimes surprising differences between Germany and South Asia. Multimedia content from the series will also be available online at www.dw.com as well as being distributed by DW’s online partners.

Ekushey TV is one of Bangladesh’s most popular private TV stations, with programming available via cable and satellite. It provides television services to more than 32 million homes in Bangladesh. Ekushey was the first Bangladeshi TV channel to broadcast content via live stream, which is available online at www.ekushey-tv.com.

Peter Limbourg will be the new Director General of Deutsche Welle (DW). On March 15, the Broadcasting Board elected the current Senior Vice President of News and Political Information of ProSiebenSat.1 TV Germany as the successor to Erik Bettermann with a clear majority. Bettermann, whose term as DW’s Director General will officially end on September 30, 2013, has been in charge of Germany’s international broadcaster since 2001.

“Together with my colleagues, I hope to further enhance Deutsche Welle’s journalistic standing and its multilingual and multimedia programming. Intensifying DW’s cooperation with Germany’s public service broadcasters ARD and ZDF is another goal I have set myself,” said Limbourg.

 

Video content from Kick Off! is now being highlighted on Bundesliga.com – the website of Germany’s professional soccer league. Kick Off! offers a weekly look at the German top-flight – including highlights from the week’s action, interviews with players and coaches and an inside look at the league and its fans. It’s aired onn DW in German, English, Spanish and Arabic – and addressed to soccer fans around the globe.