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

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

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

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)…

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

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

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

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

Berlin (AFP) - The role of gay people in bringing down communist East Germany from within is getting fresh attention three decades on, at a time when sexual liberation is still a battleground.