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Freya von Moltke held onto her uncensored correspondence

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The bottom half of Kang Sunkoo’s Statue of Limitations

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Christine Wunnicke’s glittering absurdist jewel of a novel

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There’s a colorful history behind the history

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Babylon Berlin is back

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An entire unimportant young lady alone with her questions

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Haven’t made it through Robert Musil

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In a country where 20th century history weighs heavily

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No the pickle ornament is not a beloved German holiday tradition

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Ever wondered about what happens to items left behind

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Ceramics in the Bauhaus tradition

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Neither scientific study nor psychoanalytic text

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Making Marvels at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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String theory is the relatively new big idea

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My country was no longer the land of religious tolerance

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Anna Funder looks back on Stasiland

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Charlotte Salomon’s Life? or Theatre?

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There’s a reason why Adorno’s defenders might gravitate toward depression

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Heimat is a Space in Time

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Monsters lurk in the Nietzschean deep

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Kudos to Heartbeat Opera in NYC

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The jewel heist from Dresden’s historic Green Vault

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Strauss and Hofmannsthal operatically imagined in 1919

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I didn’t want to learn tourist or business German

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Locally printed emergency money fom World War I

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Merkeling along has not served the country poorly

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More compelling testimonials about November 9

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German unification was shaped by both the East and the West

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It’s November 2019

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Julia Franck Heike Geissler Maxim Leo Norman Ohler and Bernhard Schlink

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A colorful GDR-era mural by Josep Renau

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Neues Deutschland once the party newspaper of the SED

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In memoriam Ingo Maurer

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Beyond Checkpoint Charlie

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Beyond Bauhaus Modernism in Britain

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Inadvertently or not most of today’s far right speak in Heideggerian terms

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Lotte Reiniger created more than 70 silhouette animation films

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There’s still time to see Point of No Return

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The question of how much and what kind of fun

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He is a fine writer who combines great insight with shocking ethical blindness

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Germany’s Jew’s are increasingly a target of violence

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Thirty years later David Hasselhoff is still looking for freedom in Berlin

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Democracy is in trouble

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Walzwerk a restaurant in San Francisco’s Mission District

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Whether we needed them or not

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In Thomas Mann’s War

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Every translation of a classic work is also a reinterpretation

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It feels like more books about race have been published

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The Bauhaus may have never had a proper music department

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The stylishly straightforward Bauhaus Museum Dessau

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Berlin’s rebuilt Stadtschloss has become a national monument

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Thousands of artworks from the Nazi period lie hidden away

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Mounting an exhibition containing swastikas

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In memoriam Sigmund Jahn

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It’s Clara Schumann’s 200th birthday

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Luisa Beck recalls WEB Du Bois’s formative experience

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Adorno was right

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They complain that they do not have enough money to do research on these objects

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The far-right AfD party is turning up the pressure

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In praise of Richard Strauss’s Salome

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Germans have been getting naked in public for over a hundred years

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Nearly thirty years after German reunification

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In the summer of 2019 the political scene in Berlin is in greater flux

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He does not give press interviews

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Gabriele Tergit wrote Kasebier in 1931

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Empty Hearts by Juli Zeh

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Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself

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Else Ury’s Nesthakchen books for young readers

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German ambassadors in Buenos Aires almost got to live in a house in the trees

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Here’s a friendly reminder from the Bauhaus Archive

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Welcome to Oldenburg Indiana

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Quick there’s been a death on the dullest border in Europe

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Dystopian fiction about Brexit Britain has become a German literary trend

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Audre Lorde spent formative years in Berlin

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Luxury renovation has become a tool for displacement

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When people discuss together in conditions free of domination

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German pacifism is here to stay

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In memoriam Artur Brauner

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The Magic Flute meets Weimar Berlin

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Did we really need a prestige TV reboot of Das Boot

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At first glance the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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The James Simon Gallery on Berlin Museum’s Island

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Rammstein was a tough proposition

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In 1963 Hans Traxler concocted an elaborate literary hoax

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The house by the lake in Gross Glienicke

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Eva Trobisch has made a drama of tragic accommodation

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Thomas Stuber’s In the Aisles

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An exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn aims to show us

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Brexit party MEPS turned their backs during the EU anthem

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In 1917 the Boston Symphony declined to perform The Star-Spangled Banner

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Bachmann’s vision is so original

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The story of Ms. Landecker and Mr Reimann

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We’re witnessing a new intensity of disucssions with our visitors

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But of course honesty is only synonymous with Germany if you don’t know much

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Laserstein’s portraits look astonishingly modern

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In Elvia Wilk’s Oval Berlin is where the late capitalist apocalypse

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We won’t rebuild we won’t restore

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The history of African-Germans in the Third Reich

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Resettled refugees are participating in apprenticeship programs

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It’s only in Ms. Merkel’s absence that Germans realize how different she is