"I have little time in everyday life for idiocy," the former Liverpool manager added during a press conference.

A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.

Fatih Akin directs a stirring, thoughtful drama—based on the memories of Hark Bohm—about a German child on a remote North Sea island in 1945.

Nikole Hannah-Jones famously argued for sending her daughter to a regular public school in NYC. Ten years later, she revisits that choice.

Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".

Manfred Karge’s play about a woman acting as her dead husband was a cause célèbre in the 80s. It remains a bracing portrait of a divided person in a divided culture

When you’re young, or not so young, and strongly drawn to a genre of music, a certain composer, a particular piece, it’s often hard to explain why, even to yourself. This may be especially true of …

A rarely screened early gem, written by Billy Wilder, is accompanied by a discussion of the German émigrés who were to indelibly change Hollywood cinema.

The novelist and translator on his new edition of Ruth Rehmann’s forgotten masterpiece.

A deeply researched yet readable survey of Slav-Teuton antagonisms from the late 1800s to the present

For decades, Salzburg residents dismissed the hit musical as kitsch. Now, a dedicated space aims to reconcile movie myth and local history.

It’s an ungainly word for English speakers, which is maybe why we do not hear it often: Gleichschaltung. Yet the concept remains central for a clear view of what happened to Germany in the 1930s.

Look closely and you’ll see that every part of the text is not quite right.

The anti-fascist consensus about our Nazi past is fundamental to German democracy. But that, shockingly, is being shattered, says Jörg Lau, an international correspondent for the German weekly Die Zei...

Exit poll shows Alternative für Deutschland on 44.5% of vote in Saxony-Anhalt after huge turnout, with votes still being counted

Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under attack and may not finish his term, while the extreme-right AfD continues its ascent in the polls.

Poll to take place in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, where Bauhaus blossomed a century ago – and where AfD is promising ‘patriotic culture policy’ if it wins

Timmy: Hope Dies Last portrays stranded humpback as saviour for a divided country, igniting both optimism and grief

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Four agents are shown on top of Victor Perez Martin, and one appears to have his arm around Perez Martin’s neck. Two more agents look on.

At the German pavilion, the artist has re-created the housing estate where she grew up to tell the forgotten history of migrants, including her parents, hired under a socialist agreement between East ...

Modernist art institution fears AfD ‘patriotic culture’ push nearly 100 years after closing under Hitler

Clicking on the links now reveals blank pages and empty PDFs. "Intellectually, it’s not acceptable.”...

I recently took a daytrip to Philadelphia and visited an intriguing exhibition called The Declaration’s Journey at the Museum of the American Revolution. The show traces the evolution and global impac...

Painting by Jérémie Queyras shows former German chancellor in trademark jacket – at a time of nostalgia for her rule