The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), now the biggest opposition party in the Bundestag, is steadily gaining support, with some polls suggesting that the AfD has pulled ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s... Read more »
Following the end of World War II in 1945, a defeated Germany was divided into four occupation zones, controlled by the Allied powers: the United States, France, Great Britain and the Soviet... Read more »
(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||;w[q].push([“_mgc.load”])})(window,”_mgq”); Munich Airport in southeastern Germany shut down all flight operations for nearly seven hours overnight on 2-3 October after multiple drone sightings near the airfield, affecting thousands of passengers and forcing... Read more »
Elisabeth Kaiser is from Gera, in the eastern state of Thuringia. When the federal commissioner for eastern Germany was born in 1987, Germany was still divided. Two years later, the Berlin Wall... Read more »
It was a football game for the history books: On March 28, 1954, 53,000 spectators at Ludwigspark stadium in Saarbrücken watched Saarland battle West Germany to qualify for the Football World Cup,... Read more »
Just over 50 years ago, 1. FC Magdeburg lifted the European Cup Winner’s Cup — a feat no other east German side has replicated. Now, after a long journey in the lower leagues,... Read more »
Last month, Matthias Blübaum did something no other German chess player had in 35 years by qualifying for the World Championship Candidates Tournament. The 28-year-old did so by coming second at the FIDE Grand... Read more »
Following the end of World War II in 1945, a defeated Germany was divided into four occupation zones, controlled by the Allied powers: the United States, France, Great Britain and the Soviet... Read more »
Between old sofas and broken fridges, boxes of baby clothes and crates of cassettes, hidden treasures dot Berlin’s streets. In one such collection of unwanted stuff, Berlin musician Eno Thiemann discovered a... Read more »
Only four months after the government took office, satisfaction with the ruling coalition of the center-right Christian Democrats and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and center-left Social Democrats (SPD) has fallen to a... Read more »