It’s West Berlin, 8th June 1982, and a ragged-throated Mick Jagger is more than ready for some post-show refreshment. Staring ...

For months, the East Germans and Soviets had threatened a new Berlin cri sis if the West Germans persisted in their plan to convene the Federal Republic’s electoral college in the western half of the ...

Russia’s invasion of a sovereign Ukraine is a stark echo of the Cold War: A formerly Soviet-dominated country tries to make its own way in the world, its putative success highlighting for Russians a ...

Q&A with Frederick Taylor, expert in modern German history. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Nov. 9, 1989, the barrier between ...

OMA’s 1987 proposal for a residential development at Checkpoint Charlie. Image © Office for Metropolitan Architecture The 1980s in Berlin was a strange decade: The ...

Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the barrier that divided West Berlin from East, and enclosed the West from the rest of East Germany. From 1961 to 1989, the iconic ...

In early August 1961, a letter arrived at the Berlin Zoo’s administration office. A visitor’s annual pass had been taken away because she’d fed animals without permission. Not so very long before, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about cinema and TV series in Europe. This article is more than 5 years old. An installation on the movie 'Das Leben der ...