Thirty years after the events of 9 November 1989, five German writers reflect on the day they woke to a united country by Jenny Erpenbeck, born in East Berlin in 1967 To set foot in a forbidden zone: ...

BERLIN — Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany's capital on Saturday with open-air concerts, art installations and official events commemorating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kai Wegner, Governing Mayor of Berlin, lights a candle at the Berlin Wall Memorial during the central commemoration ceremony to ...

In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist West and the socialist East — spent the year competing to see who could showcase the best cultural, ...

It is no coincidence that this year’s Berlinale Retrospective was titled “Lost in the 90s.” The burning problems of the present day, genocidal wars, dictatorship and increasing social decline, bring ...

Berlin, the once-divided city that epitomized the Cold War, commemorated the fall of the wall 36 years ago on Sunday with a memorial ceremony on Bernauer Strasse, a street that was split in two when ...

Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall stood for 28 years at the front line of the Cold War between the Americans and the Soviets. It was built by communists to cut off East Germans from the supposed ...

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