Whereas previous generations were influenced by punk, techno and other subcultures, the modern German teenager is already dreaming of settling down in the suburbs, according to researchers.
Spies should have the right to keep communications data relating to minors aged under 16, a senior member of Germany's domestic intelligence service has said.
Financial crises and an uncertain future are making young Germans risk-averse and driving them into a cultural mainstream – although they're also the most socially tolerant generation ever, a new study claims.
Young people are aware of the need to care for and protect the environment but place it low on their list of personal priorities, a new study has found.
The federal police have warned teenagers that a new trend of taking 'selfies' while standing on the tracks of train lines is putting their lives at risk.
The government's special commissioner for drug dependency said on Thursday that doctors need to start assessing teenagers for addiction to the internet.
Police in TĂĽbingen, Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, warned against calls for vigilante justice on Friday after a video showing teenaged girls attacking a classmate was uploaded to social media.
Politicians have called for e-cigarettes to be banned in school playgrounds in Bavaria to discourage children and teenagers from using the flavoured substitute cigarettes.
Germany's 'Youth Word of the Year' comes from a Turkish word meaning boss or chief. 'Babo' is the best teenage slang word of 2013, according to a vote organised by dictionary publisher Langenscheidt.
The number of teenagers regularly drinking themselves into a stupor is dropping, according to new figures, although around 700,000 say they get smashed once a month.
The man who gave millions of German teenagers their first information about sex and love has died at 85. <i>Bravo</i> magazine's original “Dr Sommer” Martin Goldstein gave frank advice to readers after spending his own childhood dodging Nazis.
More German children and teenagers got dangerously drunk in 2008 than at any time in the past decade, leading to a surge in hospitalisations, the federal government’s drug commissioner announced Tuesday.
Two German teenagers arrested after beating a 50-year-old man to death at a regional express train station in Munich are likely to be charged with attempted murder and could face long jail sentences, police said on Sunday.
A 16-year-old who threw a party at her parents’ new home in Lippstadt while they were on vacation got more than she bargained for when more than 200 teenagers rampaged through the house, torturing the family’s rabbits, ripping off wallpaper and peeing on the carpets.
