Germany

To avoid chaos, and in true German style, the country’s schools break-up for summer at different times

The constitutional court remains untouched by chaos and is still the country’s most trusted institution

The eccentric monarch’s fantastical Bavarian castles, once dismissed as kitsch, have finally gained Unesco World Heritage status

The German-American went from a sniper to an academic with a reputation for sexual frankness

The chancellor's straight-talking has, unexpectedly, boosted his popularity

The world of extremism has moved on during the past 100 years – but the core ideas of Hitler’s book have not gone away

A new book reveals the former Nazis at the heart of Das Kanzleramt, the chancellor’s office, the power hub of the young German democracy

The protest band got an ecstatic welcome in Dresden, the city where a young Vladimir Putin was stationed as KGB officer

Bergman and Hartung kept their art separate, but couldn’t stay apart in life

The place where Goethe’s antihero sold his soul has embraced the maxim: ‘When the legend becomes fact, print the legend’

Under Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz, laws were passed to this end. But, it never happened

Yes, its economy needs a reboot, but the country feels less tatty and troubled. Why?

For now, the chancellor is sticking to policy – if only to keep the AfD in check

The 81-year-old former chancellor claimed it prevented him from attending a parliamentary inquiry in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern over his role in the Nord Stream 2 saga

After 99 years, the German authorities and the Hohenzollern family have decided to bury the hatchet

A string of decisions has triggered a wave of criticism – from the public, the media, legal scholars and politicians

Fortuna Düsseldorf, in Germany's second tier, has traditionally struggled to match the passion of their neighbours. So they're giving tickets away

We’d come to think of May 8 as a liberation. The AfD thinks commemorating it is a humiliation

A new documentary is a reminder that the film director and writer was a willing and eager propagandist for evil

As tempting as the dream of an AfD-free Bundestag may be, banning the party wouldn’t make the anger and fear that fuel it disappear

Scholz’s successor will exceed expectations – but only as the bar for the chancellor-designate has been set so low

Arresting and alarming, consoling and unashamedly beautiful, two exhibitions in Amsterdam and one in Oxford are showing the work of arguably the most significant living artist

Bitter at the old politics, young Germans saw the far-right AfD as a revitalising tonic. How can the left get that taste out of their mouths?

Eighty years ago, the island was nearly wiped off the map. Today it relies on wind-farm crews more than tourists

As the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two approaches, Leipzig's Capa House offers an urgent reminder about the origins of fascism

An enigmatic Berlin exhibition inspired by Les Fleurs du mal misses the heavy velvet curtains and perfume and the sense of intoxication

Thanks to the SPD, expectations of the soon-to-be chancellor are now so low he can hardly fail to impress once in office

In common with so many of the great pioneers, the inventor could add to his own gifts the blessing of a truly formidable spouse

Mobile phone coverage is notoriously patchy due to past policy failures and slow infrastructure expansion, leaving rural areas full of dead zones

He was one half of Milli Vanilli. So was he a failure, a fraud – or an extraordinary success?

The drone has proved a game-changer in Ukraine’s defence of its country. So why doesn’t the German army have a single armed one?

A new show in the German capital is attempting to bring to life the core principles of quantum physics