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My wide-ranging interview with Der Spiegel

A new study highlights persistent structural disparities in wealth and leadership positions between East and West Germany, 36 years after reunification.

The sinister reach of East Germany’s Ministry for State Security did not end in 1990. According to the British press, the Stasi is still with us.

Citizens of former East Germany who faced surveillance and harassment still show higher psychological distress and systemic inflammation decades later. A new study reveals how "soft" authoritarian rep...

Stolen trade secrets boosted the country's output—to a point.

Older adults who lived in socialist East Germany show better cognitive health today than their West German peers. Researchers attribute this unexpected mental resilience to the longer compulsory schoo...

Grievance politics has grown in the east of the country where I was born. But west Germans have hard questions to answer too, says writer Carolin Würfel

Am 18. August 1976 verbrannte sich der evangelische Pfarrer Oskar Brüsewitz vor der Michaeliskirche in Zeitz. Damit setzte er ein Zeichen gegen die Kirchen- und Bildungspolitik der DDR. Sein Fanal ers...

The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 took many by surprise – not least the British still occupying much of the city. Here's how they reacted.

German officials warned Thursday against the romanticisation of communist East Germany at a time the far-right and Moscow-friendly AfD has sometimes expressed nostalgia for the fallen regime.

Commemorative events, exhibitions and an art installation at the Brandenburg Gate will mark the 65th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall in Berlin on Thursday. Politicians and other pub...

When I was a kid in the early '70s, my family lived in West Germany for five years while dad was stationed on various U.S. military bases. We saw West German TV

A landmark pension reform is triggering backlash from eastern Germany and exposing deep divisions within Chancellor Friedrich Merz's party. Why is Germany's pension system under pressure? Why the res...

The Baade 152 was the first jet airliner built in Germany. It crashed on its second flight and took East Germany's aircraft industry down with it.

Born in the former East Germany, I was caught between two systems. But it’s a mistake to think of the ‘in-between’ as life’s waiting room, says writer Carolin Würfel

A debate on how to deal with the legacy of former communist East Germany has been sparked after people attending an event organized by the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Dessau sang the C...

Many endangered species now live in the area that once formed the border between East and West Germany. Environment Minister Carsten Schneider recently visited the "Green Belt," and DW went along for ...

Dieter Gerhardt, a pivotal figure in the anti-apartheid Struggle who became a high-ranking Soviet spy, has died at 90, reigniting debate about his controversial actions and motivations.…

Thousands of athletes in former East Germany were subjected to state-sponsored doping — and many still suffer lasting health effects. But support for victims is not enough, German commissioner says.

Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a population slump in the east lays bare the existing divisions

Eureka Entertainment brings us Frank Beyer’s Trace of Stones – released as a part of their Masters of Cinema series – along with three documentaries, one being an insightful, feature-length film on Fr...

During the heights of Beatlemania, one Fab Four gem soon found its way across the Iron Curtain and frightening the very top of the East German state.

Eureka Entertainment announces INTO THE FOREST: FOLKTALES AT DEFA, a major new Blu-ray release bringing together five classic fairy and folktales from the renowned East German studio DEFA. Available t...

Show at Martin Gropius Bau gallery in Berlin is biggest ever celebration of an East German female artist in a state museum