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Lothar de Maizière, 75, East German prime minister in 1990.; Joachim Grosskreutz, 75, who worked at the Komische Opera in East Berlin both before and after the fall of Communism.; Iris Gleicke ...
Newspapers on Monday morning carried a striking – and stark – political map of Germany in 2024. The Berlin coalition colours – red, green and yellow – are almost nowhere to be seen.
Gerlinde Schultze, 46, from Berlin, poses with her 1-week-old purebred East German shepherd puppy, Xaver, and Xaver's mom, Virginia. As the country celebrates 17 years of reunification, some ...
How different it was when I was based in the old West Germany in the mid-1980s as the Financial Times' correspondent in Bonn (a capital described by an American colleague as "the size of Chicago's ...
East, West Germany still divided over whose dogs are superior Originally published October 3, 2007 at 12:00 am Updated October 3, 2007 at 2:02 am Gerlinde Schultze beamed as she lifted up her week ...
Germany’s historical Drang nach Osten— push toward the East —has more often than not involved expansion and conquest at its neighbors’ expense. Now West Germany is looking eastward again ...
The stark east-west divide in national vote share from Germany’s national election on Sunday has been revealed in new data. News agency Reuters has created a map using result figures that show a ...
Editor’s note: Janko Tietz, a business writer for Der Spiegel in Hamburg, Germany, is a fellow with the Arthur F. Burns program. He is a contributing writer for the Oakland Tribune. June 15 ...
NPR's Guy Raz reports from the eastern German city of Schwerin that since East Germany adopted the West German currency ten years ago, the road to economic reform in the East has been rocky.
"Women in Divided Germany" is the title of an exhibition 35 years after reunification. It sheds light on the realities of life for women in former East and West Germany.Were women in communist ...
In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from ...