From Hammer Horror to kitsch to electronic music, to coincide with the publication of his new book The Alienation Effect, ...

The second world war was won in the cafés of central Europe – the intellectual milieu that produced Edward Teller, Leo ...

A first draft of Germany's future coalition agreement reveals strong alignment on EU policy – except for one key point.

Founded in Weimar by brothers Martin and Sven Fröhlich, AFF Architekten has East German roots. Today, they run the practice together with Ulrike Dix, Monic Frahn, and Valentino Vitacca as a collective ...

For the National Socialists, everything was political. All forms of culture — from theater and cinema to painting and literature — were turned into instruments of propaganda and antisemitism ...

Babelsberg Palace in Potsdam is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Once the summer residence of Emperor William I, it is now a popular excursion destination.

The friend who tried to mediate the disagreement was met with scorn. “Any sentence that starts with ‘however’ or ‘but’ is just nonsense.” ...

In 1968 the Marxist historian Perry Anderson published a seminal essay entitled “Components of a National Culture”, analysing how Germanic intellectuals working in fields such as philosophy, economics ...

Meanwhile, the Weimar Plus format – which includes Poland, Germany, France, the U.K., Italy, Spain and the EU – has emerged as another active grouping. Macron’s Paris initiative can be seen ...

Central European designers and architects who fled fascism brought modernist ideals to Britain, reshaping its urban fabric.