A Novelist Who Finds Inspiration in Germany’s Tortured History
Jenny Erpenbeck became a writer when her childhood and her country, the German Democratic Republic, disappeared, swallowed by the materialist West.
By Steven Erlanger
Jenny Erpenbeck became a writer when her childhood and her country, the German Democratic Republic, disappeared, swallowed by the materialist West.
By Steven Erlanger
I’m a correspondent covering Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Here are five things I’ve been looking at, reading, watching and listening to.
By Erika Solomon
Brands, developers and even city officials are embracing the global appeal of street art, but the boom comes with questions about preserving a neighborhood’s cultural cachet.
By Isabella Kwai
Daniela Klette, a militant from the Red Army Faction, was on the run for decades. Yet with publicly available digital recognition tools, German police could probably have found her much sooner.
By Erika Solomon and Christopher F. Schuetze
Daniela Klette, who was wanted in connection with the bombing of a prison and violent robberies, was living in plain sight in Berlin, the police say.
By Christopher F. Schuetze
The TaxiFilmFest is partly a protest over the miserable state of Berlin’s taxi industry. But it’s also a celebration of the cab’s iconic place in the urban cultural landscape.
By Bryn Stole
Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers built one of the art world’s most powerful businesses by not following conventional wisdom.
By Evan Moffitt
Matthew Longo’s new book details how ordinary citizens helped speed the downfall of the Soviet empire.
By Andrew Meier
The Tacheles was once a symbol of underground culture. But with the arrival of Fotografiska, a profit-driven Swedish photography center, the atmosphere has changed.
By Mary Katharine Tramontana
In “Beyond the Wall,” the historian Katja Hoyer draws on archives and interviews to bring the eastern half of Germany back into the postwar picture.
By Kati Marton
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