It has been dubbed a cold war Romeo and Juliet and drawn huge television audiences in Germany since its launch in mid-September. So popular is the TV drama about life in communist East Germany – which ...

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The ice-skating season at Lake Weissensee in Carinthia began today, with a 15cm thick ice layer allowing access to the western part. Temperatures have been low, ensuring solid ice. Around 1,000 locals ...

Forging ahead in our museum series on NPR Berlin, I wanted to say thanks for all your museum suggestions we should be looking into. We received some great ideas. Today on our weekly series, Berlin ...

The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery is 130 years old and has survived the kaiser’s imperial Germany, the Weimar Republic, and, astonishingly, the Nazi regime. It is the largest active Jewish cemetery in ...

They went through the brick gates of the cemetery, sometimes at dark, passing by the graves of famous poets, painters, and scientists. Despite the wealth of historic headstones, these researchers had ...

Weissensee is a German television series. The series is set in East Berlin in 1980 and 1987 and follows two families.