In his new travel series, Jan Leyers visits the Germans. The cliché suggests that they are boring, stiff, and humorless, but reality turns out to be completely different. Our eastern neighbors reveal themselves as a colorful people, surprising and endlessly fascinating.

Jan also delves into Germany's turbulent history, where the Germans have proven capable of the most beautiful and the ugliest. And it is precisely this that makes them so intriguing.

Germany is the richest and most powerful country in Europe. When things go well there, we benefit too. When things go wrong, we share in the fallout. Enough reason to want to know how the Germans are doing today, and where they are taking their country.