Germany

As the country prepares to host Europe’s biggest footballing extravaganza, here are my insider tips for navigating Germany like a local

A new book tells the story of a German film-maker who tried to break with the country’s past

In Mallorca, native islanders are turning against tourists

This week’s European elections could leave Italy’s right wing PM as the continent’s biggest power-broker

While the European Parliament looks set to take a turn towards the right, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the AfD will gain influence

The elusive F1 legend’s 10-year silence has fuelled a media frenzy in Germany

The Champions League final explains why sport is so compelling – because it tells and retells the tales that we long to hear

Born an East Berliner, Jenny Erpenbeck has won the International Booker for her sensitive insight on life behind and beyond borders

Germany’s most successful club finished third in the Bundesliga and ended the season without a trophy – despite Harry Kane’s best efforts

The army has lost its allure as a career for young Germans and as a result, numbers are dwindling

Younger voters are being heavily courted by the far-right ahead of the European elections

How one night of music inspired Kandinsky’s Blue Rider movement

‘Leitkultur’ called for a consensus on civil norms but it was – intentionally – misunderstood

During their party conference, the AfD wallowed in self-pity but it was entirely self-inflicted

Beethoven’s fascination with the Enlightenment eventually led him to adapt Schiller’s poem An die Freude (Ode to Joy) into his Ninth Symphony

In Spargelzeit season, it’s hard to find a restaurant that doesn’t offer a special Spargel menu

Germany should accept the gift of 20,000 elephants from Botswana’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, with both remorse and open arms

ECM has been producing stylish jazz since 1969. But with its founder now 80, where do its solemn, spacious sounds go next?

Scientists cannot provide evidence that homoeopathic treatment works, but the Greens’ fandom is too ingrained to ‘follow the science’

The Eisbach river offers the city’s residents an eccentric gift: a surfing wave in landlocked Bavaria

The CDU Party has already announced it will scrap the law if it wins next year’s election

The capture of Daniela Klette has put the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, back in the headlines. Why do they still hold such fascination?

The ever-escalating frequency of strikes is taking its toll on our efficiency and economy

Alienating Britain and France is a catastrophe for European security, but could this allow the chancellor to gain ground at home?

Brexit supporters claim Germany’s crisis proves we were right to leave the EU. That’s puerile, illogical stuff

Daniela Klette, a former militant of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, was finally arrested last month after decades on the run

He arrived in the US as the “James Dean of Germany” but that promise would never truly be fulfilled

Germany’s tax system is at the heart of the country’s institutional sexism

Beneath Weimar, beneath that endangered republic, was always the sense that life was fleeting

Germans demonstrate a remarkable zeal for pursuing fraudsters

Sneering at another country with problems of its own making won’t solve our own

As good a musician as Keith Richards, the German was never entirely comfortable in the limelight