The Neo-Latin theater play "Cenodoxus" (1602) by Jakob Bidermann is now only known to some researchers in Latin and German ...

The Berlin branch of the Christian Democratic Union, the center-right party leading the federal government, is being probed ...

L ong before she died, the Austrian physicist Lise Meitner was horrified to realise that she was being written out of history ...

World leaders have urged calm after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran raised concerns about violence spreading across the ...

Publication of an intercepted cable exposed a clumsy German effort to forge an alliance with Mexico and helped propel the ...

The crypt, which has been closed for renovations for the past six years, houses coffins containing members of the House of ...

Given the incendiary news from this year’s edition, it may surprise you to learn that the Berlinale is among the more ...

Reichstag Fire's impact on Germany, founding of UK's Labour Party, neutron discovery, and notable births and deaths.

Iran’s nuclear ambitions mirror prewar Europe, and the US must make the hard choice between appeasement and taking decisive ...

A pioneering thinker who brought semiotics and psychoanalytic theory to bear upon cinematic representations of desire, de Lauretis taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from the ...

Max Beckmann “never busied himself with barricades” — or so he claimed. The German painter and printmaker insisted he was ...

The human capacity for hope is an essential quality. Without hope, there can be no improvement. But hope can also turn into delusion. The United States today is not Hitler’s Third Reich. We are ...