Erich Kästner's books for children shows that that difficult ideas don't have to be kept from young readers

Nervousness surrounds the search by the world's most admired orchestra for a new chief conductor

"Just how much Germany has changed is nowhere more visible than in the eyes of its most reluctant ally, Britain"

"It is perhaps best to see the British and the Germans as an odd couple with a tendency to lurch from throwing dishes to mutual admiration."

In his epic novel 'The Tower' Uwe Tellkamp brilliantlydepicts the grotesque idiosyncrasies of the GDR’s bureaucracy

'With readership in decline, the German press faces not only a dire economic challenge but an identity crisis'

Can Adolf Hitler ever really be a figure of fun?

'Angela Merkel's mobile phone is her instrument of power. What happens when this tool of democracy is subverted by our most important ally?'

Will the real Angela Merkel please stand up? After reading Stefan Kornelius’s official biography the German Chancellor remains a mystery

A new volume of reports by the Frankfurt School shows their number to be at best naive and at worst dangerously misinformed