After World War II, the Soviet Union transformed their occupied zone in Germany into the German Democratic Republic. One of the many communist states in the Eastern Bloc, East Germany developed a ...

East German Campers Keep Traditions Alive Considerable Participation spans multiple generations. Explorations of a submerged ...

We Americans complain of Big Brother’s unblinking eye in the post-Patriot Act, corporate e-mail era—as well we should. But, as The Lives of Others makes plain, things could be worse. Set in East ...

The SVT Görlitz express train, once used to whisk privileged travellers from the former East Germany to Western destinations, will roll again in 2025 after years of restoration. "The first journeys ...

Recent trends in German life expectancy show a considerable increase. Most of this increase has resulted from decreasing mortality at older ages. Patterns of oldest old mortality (ages 80+) differed ...

With its boxy design, cramped interior and notorious clouds of blue smoke billowing from its exhaust, the Trabant is often referred to as the worst car ever made. But somehow the plucky East German ...

The new movie from the rising writer-director, shot in Sangerhausen, which explores "the alchemy of encounter" amid "a societal climate shifting to the right," debuted at Locarno and is now screening ...