STUDENTS of contemporary civilization may find an analysis of modern Germany a particularly fruitful and rewarding study. Nowhere will they discover the forces which contend for mastery in a modern ...

Germany's political stability and economic sway have until recently earned Chancellor Angela Merkel unprecedented global influence and power. Postwar Germany has become the financial powerhouse of ...

Three years ago I was contacted by an editor of Rowohlt, one of the biggest book publishers in Germany. She said she loved my articles in the Zeit, the prestigious German newspaper I’ve been writing ...

On July 19, 1937, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party opened a propogandist Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich, Germany. The gallery was filled with modern art, trussed up and defaced with mocking captions—a ...

I don't live in Germany, but I am a tour guide in the Hasidic community in New York, and Germans are definitely my biggest customer demographic. The first time I did a tour for Germans, I felt very ...

At the Phoenix ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in August 2009, a woman named Ibo brought in a painting titled Silberne Sterne (Silver Stars) by Lyonel Feininger, an American-born artist who spent most of his adult ...

Hamburg is Germany's second-largest city and its most important port. Like other great European "second cities" such as Marseille, Glasgow and Barcelona, this northern port city has a special pride.