East Germany

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Historikerin Katja Hoyer: „Die Geschichte der DDR ist gerade extrem relevant“

Katja Hoyer kam in Strausberg als Tochter eines NVA-Offiziers zur Welt und lebt in London. Dort ist ihr Buch über die DDR ein Bestseller. Wie blickt sie auf das Land?

04.05.2023

A little known segment of the Berlin Wall in Pankow

In the eastern district, a significant stretch of the "hinterland" wall has been preserved

13.08.2021

Dark Matter shines a bright light on Lichtenberg's exploding art scene

Industry, design, art: The riverbank between Ostkreuz and Oberschöneweide is one of the most interesting areas in Berlin.

09.07.2021

Sociologist: The CDU understands conservative attitudes in the east

Researcher Raj Kollmorgen on why the AfD have remained so strong after Sunday's state election and why the Greens are struggling in the east.

07.06.2021

A neighbourhood cinema in Prenzlauer Berg fights for survival

Corona has devastated cinemas. The Colosseum multiplex was already fighting an uphill battle and its last chance could be state intervention.

25.05.2021

Tesla production likely delayed by construction woes

A political dispute is raging over secretive construction work at the largest building site in the region. Die Linke wants to review construction documents.

29.04.2021

How the Berlin Natural History Museum is tackling its colonial past

The Naturkundemuseum wants to launch a new international excavation at the site where the "Berlin dinosaurs" were found in Tanzania.

25.04.2021

Spreepark ferris wheel makeover to begin this week

Parts of the park will reopen before its planned rebirth in 2026.

05.01.2021

Like there's no tomorrow: 100 years of Berlin nightlife

Remember all the fun we had in pre-corona Berlin? The city's swinging bars, roaring clubs and love of all things decadent and pleasurable goes back decades.

29.12.2020

Friedrichsfelde cemetery: Where the socialists lie

The graveyard in the east is brimming with Berlin history. Countless revolutionaries, resistance fighters, spies and artists are buried here.

19.11.2020

Pfand from East German trash cans

A 1981 photo from Harald Hauswald brings back memories of a now-defunct bottle deposit system.

10.11.2020

Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain, twins re-united

Both started out as working class districts. The Cold War drove a wedge between them. Now they're united once more. But what do they really have in common?

12.11.2020

Five women who changed Berlin

By and large, the writing of history has ignored the stories of women. Here are five exceptional female Berliners who have left a mark over the past century.

05.11.2020

#30: Blühende Landschaften

To mark 30 years of reunification, we're giving you 30 key phrases that charted Germany's Cold War division and reunification. Today: Blühende Landschaften

04.11.2020

Escape pod to capitalism

A flight out of the airport in the 1980s is the only our editor is sentimental about.

05.11.2020

#25: Rowdys

To mark 30 years of reunification, we're giving you 30 key German phrases that charted Germany's Cold War division and reunification. Today: Rowdys

02.11.2020

#21: Melkus RS 1000

To mark 30 years of reunification, we're giving you 30 key German phrases that charted Germany's Cold War division and reunification. Today: the Melkus RS 1000

23.10.2020

West Berlin exclaves: left out in the cold

During the Cold War, the inhabitants of the West Berlin exclave Steinstücken were surrounded by the Wall but learned some tricks to get by.

23.10.2020

#16: Eingabe

To mark 30 years of German reunification, we're taking you on a linguistic journey through 30 phrases that charted Germany's division and reunification. Today: Eingabe.

20.10.2020

Are we headed back to Stasiland?

Anna Funder's Stasiland has become a classic of the literature on communist East Germany. 30 years after reunification, the book could serve as a warning for now.

19.10.2020

From London to Halle in a pink Beetle

Of West Berlin pizzas, East German students and an unexamined Stasi file: after graduation, Catherine Hickley took a job teaching English in East Germany in 1989.

13.10.2020

#11: Sandmännchen

To mark 30 years of German reunification, we're taking you on a linguistic journey through 30 key German words and phrases that charted Germany's Cold War division, reunification and what happened next. Today: Sandmännchen.

12.10.2020

1989/1990: When anything was possible

Unforgettable years: the peaceful revolution, the fall of the Wall, reunification. We got the mayors of West Berlin and East Berlin, Walter Momper and Thomas Krüger, to sit down for a chat about that time.

08.10.2020

#7: Jahresendflügelfigur

09.10.2020

A Stasi novel for 2020

To publish a novel about a Stasi agent losing his mind is a bold undertaking. Jennifer Hofmann has done just that - and the result makes for a great read.

05.10.2020

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