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‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’
A few weeks after the German publication of his debut novel in 2024, author Matthias Jügler received a call from an employee at the German government agency tasked with investigating...
Telegraph takeover by German buyer cleared by culture secretary
The culture secretary has cleared Axel Springer’s £575m takeover of the Telegraph, paving the way for the end of almost three years of uncertainty over the ownership of the...
Ukraine war briefing: German defence giant sparks row after comparing Ukraine drone makers to ‘housewives’
German defence giant Rheinmetall has sought to ease a row caused by its CEO when he likened Ukrainian factories producing drones to “housewives” making weapons in their kitchens. In...
Struggling humpback whale stranded for third time on German coast
The fate of a humpback whale stuck in shallow bays off Germany’s Baltic coast hangs in the balance after it became stranded for a third time.The roughly 10-metre-long (33ft)...
In an Istanbul market, I came across an old German phrase book – and a reminder of how not to speak to migrants | Carolin Würfel
A few weekends ago, I went to the flea market in Bomonti, a neighbourhood on the European side of Istanbul. I go there regularly, and over the years I’ve...
Alexander Kluge, author and key film-maker in the New German Cinema movement, dies aged 94
Alexander Kluge, a German film-maker and author who elevated cinematic collages into an art form and won the top prize at the Venice film festival in 1968, has died...
Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96
The influential German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas has died at the age of 96, his publisher has said.Habermas, a towering figure in the intellectual history of postwar Germany,...
German twist in the Telegraph tale shatters Lord Rothermere’s dreams
After three years, a series of failed bids stretching from the US to Abu Dhabi, internal rebellions and even changes in the law, it should be no surprise that...
