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Julia Klöckner has been pursued across Germany by gossip columnists this summer, but is there another agenda afoot?

For Luke Rainey, growing up gay in Portstewart, fashion was an escape

From bus attacks to Holocaust comparisons, some in the Jewish community report a surge in hostility following arms sales restriction

Zubok argues that the West played a key role in creating the Russia we face today

Radical policy shift a response to series of fatal attacks and to rise of far-right AfD

For her role in Petra Volpe’s feature the German actor shadowed nurses in Zurich but found even in wealthy Switzerland working conditions are tough

One owner of queer cafe-bars has filed 45 police complaints in the last 18 months, all linked to homophobic violence

Residents have backed grassroots plan to force landlords with more than 3,000 flats to sell their holdings to the city

Germany chancellor says Israel ‘is defending itself against attack’

With large Jewish, Israeli and Palestinian communities, debate about the war is messy, conflicted and shifting. For the country’s Irish population, navigating it is complex

Brazilian-born Oziel Inácio-Stech is suing a school over what he alleges is inaction in the face of abuse

Wild Geese: Property investment specialist and entrepreneur Adrian O’Sullivan lives in Berlin, Germany

Gideon Sa’ar given promises of German support but hears criticism of aid distribution programme

Like the enchanted gift in a fairy tale, a city will change you in ways you can’t predict, and not all of them will be kind

Shane O’Brien addresses 400 demonstrators in Berlin as lawyers prepare to file emergency motions over deportation order

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Lawyers say the move undermines civil liberties for EU citizens

Alexandra Hildebrandt welcomed her first child in 1977 and has had eight since turning 50

Housing, quality of life and healthcare in both cities are ‘night and day’, says couple

Paschal Donohoe confident US pharma will not walk away from long-term investment in Irish plants and people

Party doubled its support to win 152 seats in the Bundestag in Sunday’s federal vote

Russian agents suspected of stoking anti–Green sentiment with vandalism and bumper stickers of party leader

Berlin-based writer’s latest novel, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth, revolves around sculpted objects, absence, death and faith

Acclaimed Irish architect Dominic Stevens experiments in and excels at writing too

Eyewitnesses say vehicle aimed directly at area of market popular with families in city of Magdeburg with driver arrested at scene

Reductions in expenditure painful but necessary step in light of a dramatic slump in city income, says city mayor

Good prices, low emissions and unlimited luggage allowance of fast train between European powerhouse cities give planes a run for their money

To celebrate Food Month, Irish Times writers abroad reveal favourite foods and restaurants in their various postings

Once the cornerstone of the country’s remembrance culture, the slogan’s meaning has become increasingly blurred

The French-Senegalese film-maker won this year’s Golden Bear in Berlin for her breathtakingly imaginative new release

What’s Next For?: Liam Cagney, a musicologist based in the German capital, is writing a book about Berghain, the city’s fabled nightclub

Neubrandenburg’s town council has voted to ban the LGBT+ rainbow flag from its train station

Polish man Czeslaw Kukuczka was shot in the back as he tried to escape to West Germany

Far-right AfD’s collapse of inaugural sitting of Thuringia state parliament provides timely backdrop to new play in which populist governor sparks constitutional crisis

Green leadership steps down in Germany three days after party ejected from new Brandenburg state parliament in Potsdam after polling just 4%

Chancellor has lost his three-year-old hero factor in recent elections. He has even been dropped from SPD posters

The far-right Alternative for Germany party’s Björn Höcke wants a ‘180-degree shift’ in the country’s view of its past and condemns the postwar ‘guilt cult’

After years of costly on-off renovations, Berlin's Pergamon Museum closed its doors entirely last October, will reopen partially in 2027 and fully in 2037

German fans insist the best way to tap into the Friedrich feeling is to follow the gaze of figures in his paintings, often with their back to the viewer as they take in wonders of nature

A new train tunnel running under the memorial has been described as ‘macabre’ given how many Sinti and Roma were deported by rail to their deaths