Germany

In “People of the 20th Century,” the photographer set out to document every type and profession in the fading epoch of prewar Germany.

In Fatih Akin’s coming-of-age drama, a twelve-year-old German islander witnesses the end of the Second World War from a perilous, momentous remove.

“Good Girl,” by the German-born writer Aria Aber, asks what it means to want to belong to a society that wishes you harm.

The author discusses his story “Autobahn.”

As populist parties surge in the eastern part of the country, the ruling coalition is stumbling and the traditional political spectrum is being scrambled.

Though known for his gloomy landscapes, Caspar David Friedrich was chasing the sublime—the divinity, in all of nature, that made us seem small.

Nazism influenced the mercenary group’s twisted aesthetics, but so did Wagnerian Hollywood spectacle.

Feline residents of Walldorf, Germany, can’t go outside when certain birds are breeding. Is it cruelty or conservation?

“Filmmakers for the Prosecution” tells the story of how two scions of Hollywood contributed crucial evidence and made a documentary that was suppressed by the U.S. Army.

The tech company Wirecard was embraced by the German élite. But a reporter discovered that behind the façade of innovation were lies and links to Russian intelligence.

A mishmash of conspiracy theories and imperial nostalgia has found purchase with the country’s far-right factions.

Once, it sparked dreams of community and counterculture. What’s gained—and lost—when flower power is electrified?

Marcel Ophuls’s 1969 film about France’s collaboration with German occupiers during the Second World War broke a quarter century of media silence.

Even small cities have fine companies—and they’re all supported by the state.

In the wake of Russia’s attack, Germany has reoriented its energy policy and committed to dramatic military expansion for the first time since the Cold War.

The country embarked on an ambitious plan to transition to clean energy, aiming to lead the fight against climate change. It has not been easy.

Michael Sandel thinks that the Biden Administration is fulfilling its most important task: breaking with the faith that American meritocracy works.

She was the first woman to hold the office of Chancellor—and the first postwar Chancellor to leave the office on her own terms.

Güzin Kar’s documentary “Your Street” addresses a deceased victim of racist violence in post-reunification Germany and asks what places a society should allot to the shameful parts of its past.

As negotiations continue, it helps that Germans have experience building coalitions and that the largest parties aren’t extreme.