Berlin’s guerrilla gatekeepers
What a terrible design featuring the Brandenburg Gate tells us about Berlin’s charming – and very un-German – carelessness
What a terrible design featuring the Brandenburg Gate tells us about Berlin’s charming – and very un-German – carelessness
It may be clichéd but it’s true: Germans have no sense of humour. The Economist’s Berlin bureau chief explains why
It may be clichéd but it’s also true: Germans have no sense of humour. Our Berlin bureau chief explains why
Andreas Kluth asks why Germans like learning about their past from Anglo‑Saxons
In Berlin, victims of the Nazis are being remembered with brass plates, embedded in concrete in the streets where they lived
American-style informality has reached Germany, and it is producing some friction. Andreas Kluth, back home from California, speaks from experience
