Here’s some background information about the Berlin Wall, which enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in an attempt to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West. It became a symbol of East/West ...

Do all intelligence agents live like James Bond? Not those who worked for East Germany's Ministry for State Security (Stasi).

Forget the regular list of landmarks, museums, and destinations. Marriette has the real scoop on Berlin tours in English.

Ray, who lives in Abingdon, tells me: “In 1989, I and some RAF Regiment mates ran the Berlin Marathon. As you can see, the ...

In the late 1970s, as English pop dominated the world, Mark Reeder instead swore by German electronic music. He left his ...

Even 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there’s still an imbalance between eastern and western Germany. Many executive positions in the former East are still held by people from the ...

Thierry Noir, who covered the Berlin Wall with his hallmark cartoons, is showing both old and new works at Phillips’ gallery space.

August 4th has long been a date marked by moments that have shaped the course of history across the globe.One of the most ...

Fed up with the dominant political parties, many German voters are backing new leaders who have been labelled extreme.

Writer, actress and theater director, the now 60-something Emine Sevgi Özdamar arrived in Germany from Turkey as a young ...

Fed up with the dominant political parties, many German voters are backing new leaders who have been labelled extreme.