Culturally, Berlin Is Ascending, if Slowly
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It was easy for culture to be overlooked amid the heady events after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Allied forces were pushing toward Berlin and the end of World War II in Europe seemed assured.
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Five years ago in Germany, a group of Berlin citizens honored Craig Ladd for flying humanitarian missions into the city at the end of World War II.
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The Good German is long on style, short on thought
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Spurned by the Nazis,  rehabilitated by communists and now restored to its former  splendor, the Bauhaus school in the eastern German town of  Dessau has had a turbulent history.
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Pornography has been elevated to an art form as never before at the Berlin Film Festival, which has spotlighted the industry and its commercial success.
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Another kind of Berlin Wall has fallen. Upstart Canadian construction toy company Mega Bloks Inc.
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You know it has not been a vintage  Berlin film festival when the leading contender for top prizes  falls somewhere between "average" and "good" in the critics'  ratings
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The show in Kassel, Germany, sustains its reputation for being an idiosyncratic, concept-driven affair.
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Luxury air travel is reaching new heights but German passengers are to be treated to an opulent experience on the ground.
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You know it has not been a vintage Berlin film festival when the leading contender for top prizes falls somewhere between "average" and "good" in the critics' ratings
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BERLIN By publicly questioning whether the big differences in living standards and unemployment in his country could ever be bridged, President Horst KÃ¶hler of Germany broke a taboo few prominent personalities in the political establishment would dare do
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Plans for what would be one of Germanyâs largest mosques are rattling an ancient city to its foundations.
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The Berlin Wall fell 15 years ago but an "Iron Curtain" still divides the city as far love and romance are concerned.
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Heated debate is raging in Berlin over what to do with the city's unique wall heritage, says the BBC's Ray Furlong.
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Berliners watched in fascination and disbelief as the Berlin Wall reappeared before their eyes last week.
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Just two days after New York&#39;s Museum of Modern Art closed its spectacularly successful temporary exhibit in Berlin, the spotlight turned to another attention-grabbing art display in the German