Imagine throwing away a piece of paper and being watched for years because of it. In East Germany, this was the reality. One ...

Walking through Weimar, Germany, the legacy of the Holocaust seems inescapable. Stolpersteine — German for “stumbling blocks” ...

German cinema, especially as it relates to the way in which Germans in the former communist East Germany looked upon the west, is the focus of a planned film series culminating in a lecture by Michael ...

Near the East German village of Wandlitz, nine miles to the east of Berlin, is a most unusual settlement. It is a walled-in compound of semi-forested land and wide lawns, within which sit some 20 ...

When Karl-Marx-Stadt changed its name after the collapse of East Germany, no one thought to tell the man himself. A monumental bust of Marx, his mane of hair and voluminous beard forming a halo around ...

Spare, high-domed Alfred Kantorowicz was one of East Germany’s leading intellectuals, onetime intimate of Heinrich Mann, Romain Rolland and Ernest Hemingway, the founder of a guild of anti-Nazi ...

The celebrated German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck considers the relics of an earlier age in a newly translated essay collection. By Ryan Ruby Ryan Ruby is the author of “Context Collapse: A Poem ...