STUDENTS of contemporary civilization may find an analysis of modern Germany a particularly fruitful and rewarding study. Nowhere will they discover the forces which contend for mastery in a modern ...

Three years ago I was contacted by an editor of Rowohlt, one of the biggest book publishers in Germany. She said she loved my articles in the Zeit, the prestigious German newspaper I’ve been writing ...

Germany's political stability and economic sway have until recently earned Chancellor Angela Merkel unprecedented global influence and power. Postwar Germany has become the financial powerhouse of ...

In the summer of 2006, Ilkay Gundogan was a 15-year-old boy, Germany was hosting the World Cup, the sun was shining and his every day was about football. He took in most matches at an official local ...

I don't live in Germany, but I am a tour guide in the Hasidic community in New York, and Germans are definitely my biggest customer demographic. The first time I did a tour for Germans, I felt very ...

Two art exhibitions currently on display in Berlin raise important questions about the relationship of certain modern German artists to the Nazi regime (1933-1945). In Part 1, we discussed the ...

When Philipp Lahm was part of the Bayern Munich youth team, his coaches fretted about his size. Physically so small and slight, he was far behind his team-mates. Though a gifted athlete and naturally ...

Hamburg is Germany's second-largest city and its most important port. Like other great European "second cities" such as Marseille, Glasgow and Barcelona, this northern port city has a special pride.

In works like "Ships Departing," artist Paul Klee's childlike abstractions evoke music and the world of the imagination. Klee left Germany in 1933 and died in his native Switzerland in 1940. His work ...