Gerhard Richter Festival
The 80-year old master artist captures German life, love, death and history
Berlin is celebrating a great German painter. Works of Gerhard Richter, who recently turned 80, are being shown simultaneously at three different Berlin venues, and long [...]
New German Jewry – Made by Russians
Formerly discriminated “Ostjuden” are now the backbone of Jewish life
More than 200,000 Jews have emigrated from the former Soviet Union to Germany in recent years – they are the future of German Jewry.
Those who think statically [...]
A Virtual Reconciliation
Anselm Kiefer Seeks to Repair the Heritage Shattered by the Shoah
Modern German art in an Israeli avantgarde museum would have seemed impossible only a few years ago, though there is a connection dating back from a dark past. The Nazis hated both [...]
The Euro Question
German Pundits are Talking About the Unthinkable: Could the Common Currency Collapse?
The “€-question” – hardly a dinner party conversation in Europe has gone by in recent weeks without the biggest of big questions coming up: the [...]
Ban Fascist Demons From Society
What a Democratic State Owes Its Citizens
Anti-semitism is not the problem of the Jews. Right-wing extremism is not the problem of the Turkish minority. Anti-semitism and xenophobia are problems that German society must address together. Combating [...]