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Solo Sunny review – a rueful East German gem of ambition, loneliness and faded dreams

Konrad Wolf’s 1980 drama follows a singer trying to escape the drab compromises of GDR life, capturing the melancholy of thwarted ambition with warmth and wit

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29

‘We were broke, but fascinated by freedom’: exhibition showcases East German artist Gabriele Stötzer

Show at Martin Gropius Bau gallery in Berlin is biggest ever celebration of an East German female artist in a state museum

The Guardian - UK · Jun 29

What iconic fashion photography looked like behind the Berlin Wall in '70s and '80s East Germany

Published in Sibylle – the "Vogue of the East" – Ute Mahler's fashion photography shows how fashion looked in everyday life in the GDR

Digital Camera World · May 16

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‘I shared a single bed with my mother for three years’: Sung Tieu on her monument to immigrant workers in Venice

At the German pavilion, the artist has re-created the housing estate where she grew up to tell the forgotten history of migrants, including her parents, hired under a socialist agreement between East Germany and Vietnam – then abandoned

The Guardian - UK · May 12

Stasi secret files: How James Bond was spied on by East Germany

Stasi files show that 007 violated the GDR border four times at Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin. The whole thing happened during filming for 'Octopussy.' A dangerous scandal in the middle of the Cold War, observed and documented by the Stasi.

Euronews · Feb 24

‘No topic is too difficult’: children’s series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy

In Fritzi’s Footsteps tells story of a girl growing up in Leipzig who witnesses the fall of the Berlin Wall

The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2025

Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever

Once considered progressive, then later derided, a new exhibition is exploring the developments’ place as part of a collective experience

The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2025

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Women born in East Germany have lived between two worlds. That’s why we’re shaking up art and politics

The stories of curator Kathleen Reinhardt and provenance expert Lynn Rother show how exclusion can be turned to powerful insight, says writer Carolin Würfel

The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2025

‘We are all Vietnamese and came to Germany to build a better life’

After the Vietnam War ended, thousands travelled to Germany. A recent anniversary has stirred a sense of reflection.

Al Jazeera · Jul 7, 2025

Germany’s post-Holocaust moral remaking is being challenged by the rise of the far-right – and wars in Gaza and Ukraine

Current conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza (now spreading across the Middle East), have placed Germany in a difficult position, forcing it to reconsider its role in the world. A uniquely German sense of guilt and shame for the Holocaust “inseparably” ties the Israel-Palestine conflict to “Germany’s unquestionable solidarity with Israel”,…

The Conversation · Nov 12, 2024

Thirty-five years since the wall fell, Berlin is divided – over what to do with crumbling communist buildings

The 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, an event that powerfully symbolised the collapse of communism in eastern Europe and signalled the end of the cold war, is an opportune moment to take stock of what remains of East Germany (GDR) in the capital of Germany.

The Conversation · Nov 6, 2024

As a former East German athlete doped by the state, I see how our past pain is fuelling the far right

In east Germany, our history is shrouded in lies and silence. Until we break their hold, support for extremism will flourish, says academic and author Ines Geipel

The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2024

Ikea Paying $6.5 Million To East German Prisoners Forced To Make Their Furniture

The compensation is part of Germany's commitment to 'deal with dark chapters of its own history'

International Business Times · Nov 3, 2024

Success of far-right AfD shows east and west Germany are drifting further apart

Likely win in Thuringia and second place in Saxony highlight how eastern voters are asserting their own political identity

The Guardian - UK · Sep 1, 2024

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The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2024

Decades after Germany’s reunification, views still differ on its cultural divide

Letters: Ruth Strassl, born in West Germany, and John Green, who spent several years living in East Germany, respond to an article by Carolin Würfel

Al Jazeera · Jul 4, 2024

UEFA Euro 2024 finals stage reopens east-west football divide in Germany

Of the 10 host cities staging UEFA Euro 2024, only one is in the former East Germany. Can the playing field be levelled?

The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2024

What’s ‘wrong’ with east Germany? Look to its long neglect by the wealthy west

The far-right AfD is leading the polls in former GDR regions – and longstanding bias in German media and politics is partly to blame, says German-British historian Katja Hoyer

The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2023

East German dissident singer Wolf Biermann celebrated in Berlin exhibition

Exile in 1976 spawned mass protest movement and led to exodus of some of GDR’s top artists and actors

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The Guardian - UK · May 10, 2023

From rampaging teens to female assassins: why has East German culture become so cool?

Is Britain’s sudden appetite for the GDR an unhealthy obsession? Katja Hoyer, author of Beyond the Wall, examines the new wave of books and shows about life under the Stasi in the vanished state

The Guardian - UK · Apr 25, 2023

‘The GDR was safe for me’: Disney drama tells story of former East Germany’s first black police officer

Samuel Meffire was the face of an ad campaign to show a different side to the former GDR but later served time for armed robbery

France 24 · Apr 5, 2023

'Beyond the Wall': The GDR seen from an East German perspective

On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, symbolising the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Plenty of books, essays and documentaries have been devoted to the historic turning point, but hearing from East Germans about how they experienced the four decades of the German Democratic Republic (GDR)…

The Guardian - UK · Mar 29, 2023

Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer review – overturning cliches of East Germany

A revisionist history that adds stability, contentment and women’s rights to the familiar picture of authoritarianism

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2023

Hans Modrow obituary

Last communist prime minister of East Germany whose proposals for a slow process of reunification were pushed aside

The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2023

Siblings by Brigitte Reimann review – rebel with a cause

This intoxicating 1963 novel explores the tension between socialist ideals, self-fulfilment and repressive reality in East Germany

The Guardian - UK · Jan 12, 2023

Dessau: Lanzelot review – gleefully eclectic attack on Soviet totalitarianism

One of the German Democratic Republic’s most significant composers used his opera about a dragon and a knight to question the regime

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