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After 15 years in Neukölln and working in German media, Zara Rahman is leaving Berlin because of dishonesty and moral hypocrisy.

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The GDR rock band Silly, poems by Alice Miller, and Katja Hoyer on the rise of fascism in interwar Weimar

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The state audit into CDU antisemitism funding finds Senator Wedl-Wilson knew she was breaking the law. Kai Wegner's response? He hasn't read the report.

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There are works of literature that so acutely respond to the moment in which they were written that they can be said to paradoxically appear “before their time.” Time, in other words, must do what it ...

The Diane Arbus show at the Gropius Bau, Berlin

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Nach SPIEGEL-Informationen durchsucht das Bundeskriminalamt die Zentrale der Deutschen Bank in Frankfurt am Main. Es geht um mutmaßliche Geldwäsche. Eine Rolle soll auch der russische Oligarch Roman A...

Harry Speirs reviews Joseph Minden's 'Answerlands', which is a must-read for anyone desperate for a break from the mundane

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As his most commercial film, 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is re-released, the critically acclaimed director says he can’t get a movie off the ground now – but will never give in to th...

Therapy practices meant to “cure” homosexuality are set to become punishable by law. A majority in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, voted in favor of a bill by D66 and the VV...