At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

The University of Freiburg, in partnership with the South German Class Lottery (SKL), has once again examined the state of ...

Jenny Erpenbeck became a writer when her childhood and her country, the German Democratic Republic, disappeared, swallowed by the materialist West. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger first traveled to ...

Walking through Weimar, Germany, the legacy of the Holocaust seems inescapable. Stolpersteine — German for “stumbling blocks” ...

Beyond the Wall. By Katja Hoyer. Allen Lane; 496 pages; £25. To be published in America by Basic Books in September; $35 In the eyes of its critics, the communist-run part of Germany was never a ...

Depopulated towns in Germany’s ex-communist east have come up with a novel scheme to bring back life: offering people several weeks of super-cheap housing to give would-be residents a taste of the ...

In all the lands where the hammer and sickle seek to blot out the cross, a pitiless struggle goes on to render unto the Red Caesars the things that are God’s. Last week the spiritual combat zone was ...

Eisenhüttenstadt offered a chance for two prospective residents to live rent-free in furnished apartments on a trial basis — 2,000 people applied from around the world. EISENHÜTTENSTADT, Germany — ...

What wears a uniform, stamps pass ports and has a title 53 letters long? Answer: Angehoriger des Zolls der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik —a member of the customs office of the German Democratic ...

A show at the German Historical Museum honors Wolf Biermann, whose music and moral stance endeared him to audiences across the once divided country. By Christopher F. Schuetze Christopher Schuetze ...