Germany

During their party conference, the AfD wallowed in self-pity but it was entirely self-inflicted

Beethoven’s fascination with the Enlightenment eventually led him to adapt Schiller’s poem An die Freude (Ode to Joy) into his Ninth Symphony

In Spargelzeit season, it’s hard to find a restaurant that doesn’t offer a special Spargel menu

Germany should accept the gift of 20,000 elephants from Botswana’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, with both remorse and open arms

ECM has been producing stylish jazz since 1969. But with its founder now 80, where do its solemn, spacious sounds go next?

Scientists cannot provide evidence that homoeopathic treatment works, but the Greens’ fandom is too ingrained to ‘follow the science’

The Eisbach river offers the city’s residents an eccentric gift: a surfing wave in landlocked Bavaria

The CDU Party has already announced it will scrap the law if it wins next year’s election

The capture of Daniela Klette has put the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, back in the headlines. Why do they still hold such fascination?

The ever-escalating frequency of strikes is taking its toll on our efficiency and economy

Alienating Britain and France is a catastrophe for European security, but could this allow the chancellor to gain ground at home?

Brexit supporters claim Germany’s crisis proves we were right to leave the EU. That’s puerile, illogical stuff

Daniela Klette, a former militant of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, was finally arrested last month after decades on the run

He arrived in the US as the “James Dean of Germany” but that promise would never truly be fulfilled

Germany’s tax system is at the heart of the country’s institutional sexism

Beneath Weimar, beneath that endangered republic, was always the sense that life was fleeting

Germans demonstrate a remarkable zeal for pursuing fraudsters

Sneering at another country with problems of its own making won’t solve our own

As good a musician as Keith Richards, the German was never entirely comfortable in the limelight

The AfD’s flirtations with leaving the EU are helping the far right attack the union from within

The mythology around the Spanish civil war lives on in Munich

Can an Israeli-Arab exchange programme work during wartime?

The artist's landscapes inspired German romanticism and are now turning him into a green icon

The party is banking on the country turning a blind eye to its past – but the German citizens have had a wake-up call

After eight successful seasons at Anfield, Team Germany really needs Kloppo to come home

German protests against AfD’s far right extremism show us how to beat the populists

The country’s state of military readiness is laughable to other nations

Olaf Scholz is helping the AfD blend in when they need to be singled out

Unravelling the secrets of the German film-maker

Europe is not up to the challenges that lie ahead

While she became one of the most highly respected names in the history of US theatre, Hagen brought a European sensibility to Broadway

Virtually unknown on arrival in England, the painter used his contacts – as well as his talent – to rise through Henry VIII’s court