<b>British star architect David Chipperfield unveiled Berlin's <i>Neues Museum</i> (New Museum) Thursday after a more than decade-long restoration to repair bomb damage dating from World War II.</b>
Some 100,000 German books will be available in digital format via an ambitious new online platform <i>libreka!</i> when the Leipzig book fair kicks off on March 12.
The German state ban on religious symbols and clothing for teachers discriminates against Muslim women who wear a headscarf, Human Rights Watch (HRW) told The Local on Friday.
A film on women's survival after two decades of guerrilla war in Peru, "The Milk of Sorrow," has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday.
<b>Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a team of Germany's top directors have turned their cameras on their own country, producing short, sharp vignettes sizing up the reunited nation, writes AFP's Deborah Cole.</b>
A newly discovered document has reignited a dispute between Germany and Egypt over the rightful ownership of the iconic 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti this week.
The remarkable true story of a German who helped save the lives of more than 200,000 Chinese during the Japanese invasion of Nanjing during World War II came to the Berlin Film Festival this week.
<b>The Berlin International Film Festival might have several entries tackling the foibles of the corporate world this year, but as Daniel Miller reports, the Berlinale itself is also all about business.</b>
Michelle Pfeiffer said she has fewer role choices now that she is 50 but the upside is that her on-screen lovers keep getting younger, as she unveiled her new Stephen Frears drama "Cheri" Tuesday at the Berlin Film Festival.
The 59th annual Berlinale kicked off on February 5, promising 11 days packed full of films, parties and red carpet star sightings. There’s no better way to while away the post-holiday winter blues in Germany than losing yourself in velvety cinema darkness.
The German language is “on its deathbed” in the field of science, the Council of German Culture (<i>Deutscher Kulturrat</i>) said this week. Their figures indicate that just one percent of the world’s published scientific works currently appear in German.
<b>As the departure of Berlin's world famous polar bear Knut appears imminent, Roger Boyes, correspondent for British daily The Times, muses why the German capital needs more Bowie and less bear.</b>
<b>Berlin might be a magnet for modern-day artists, but the city is also staging an ambitious ten-exhibition “Cult of the Artist” show veering from Jeff Koons to Paul Klee. Daniel Miller separates the wheat from the chaff so you don't have to.</b>
More than 60 years after the end of World War II, disputes over war booty rage on as Germany seeks, with mixed success, the return of treasures looted by the victorious Red Army.
A comparison of East and West German versions of the all-time favourite German children’s TV series <i>Sandmännchen</i> has opened this week at Frankfurt’s Museum for Communication.
The next Berlin Film Festival will showcase Eastern European and German cinema from the Cold War that seemed to foreshadow the end of European communism, organisers said late on Tuesday.
One of the long-ignored chapters of World War II hit German screens this month with a harrowing account of the mass rapes of German women by Russian soldiers as the Nazi regime crumbled around them.
German film director Werner Herzog is among the 15 filmmakers who have made next year’s Oscar shortlist for best documentary film, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills has announced.
Russia on Monday returned precious 700-year-old stained glass windows to a Frankfurt an der Oder church that were seized by the Soviet army at the end of World War II.
The new head of Germany’s famed Bayreuth opera festival, Katharina Wagner, narrowly avoided an auto accident early on Friday morning when she took the wheel after the driver of the car suffered a heart attack and died.
