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How East Germany's 'Traffic Light Man' Became A Beloved Icon

As Germany readies to mark 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell, one symbol of the former communist East has become an icon of reunification, seen by millions every time they cross a street.

International Business Times

The Palace review – this burlesque thriller about secret twins could really do with Lindsay Lohan

It’s got so much potential – identical twins split up as babies before the fall of the Berlin Wall – and yet this German drama is hokey and lame. In fact, Lohan managed a better dual performance in The Parent Trap … aged 12

The Guardian - UK

Former Stasi official sentenced to 10 years for 1974 Berlin border murder

Czeslaw Kukuczka was shot in the back as he tried to flee from East Germany via the Berlin Wall on March 29, 1974.

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Former Stasi secret police officer jailed for murder at Berlin Wall border crossing

The city was divided at the time by the Berlin Wall

The Independent UK

OPINION - London's lesson is change or die — and it's true for the Standard too

I did two spells at the Evening Standard, the first in the late 1980s, the second, as editor, between 2012 and 2017. In that first period of time, we covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, the Big Bang and its consequences, and the drama…

Evening Standard

I’m Not Everything I Want to Be review – sex, fashion and addiction from Czech Nan Goldin

Libuše Jarcovjáková narrates her own life story from career obscurity to capturing the Prague underground and the fall of the Berlin Wall

The Guardian - UK

Why German reunification is still a good idea

When asked about my opinion on German reunification, I usually respond that I think it is a good idea, and that we should do it. This is, of course, a joke, as Germany is now united with no official internal borders. However, 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall,…

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The factional anthem: why dictators, leaders and protesters have fought over Beethoven’s Ninth

The spine-tingling symphony has been used and abused for 200 years: from marking the fall of the Berlin Wall to being Hitler’s birthday song. We follow its rocky road to this year’s Proms

The Guardian - UK

10 of Europe’s best sculpture parks and open-air galleries

From Rodin and Moore in the Netherlands to an underwater sculpture forest in Cyprus and a gallery on the Berlin Wall

The Guardian - UK

Smashing idea: how East Germany invented ‘unbreakable’ drinking glasses

In the 1980s, a company called Superfest pioneered extra strong glass – but it disappeared with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now it’s making a comeback

The Guardian - UK

Thomas Hoepker, renowned German photographer, dies at 88

The photographer was known for defining images of Muhammad Ali, the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers in 2001

The Guardian - US

‘It was high time I told our stories’: Jenny Erpenbeck on her International Booker winner Kairos

A pulse-quickening novel about a tempestuous age-gap relationship at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall has won the top prize for translated fiction. The German author and her translator discuss how it entwines the personal and political

The Guardian - UK

The Picnic by Matthew Longo review – the party that pulled down the iron curtain

A novelistic account of the revellers in Hungary who helped speed the collapse of communism

The Guardian - UK

'Puzzle Women': Piecing together the files destroyed by East Germany's secret police

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a team of archivists has been tirelessly sorting, pasting and reassembling documents that were destroyed by the Stasi, the East German secret police. Nicknamed the "Puzzle Women", these heroines of collective memory face the Herculean task of piecing together these files:…

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The Guardian - UK

Wolfgang Schäuble obituary

The longest-serving parliamentarian in German history, who played a pivotal role in reunification after the fall of the Berlin Wall

The Guardian - UK

The Berlin Wall is opened for Christmas – archive, 1963

In December 1963, an agreement between East and West Germany allowed West Berliners to obtain one-day passes to visit relatives in East Berlin

Reason

Javier Milei Sworn in as President of Argentina

"Just as the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of a tragic era for the world," he said, "these elections have marked the turning point in our history."

The National (Scotland)

'Biggest impact since fall of Berlin Wall': Oxford expert hails key Scottish policy

THE Scottish Child Payment has seen the biggest reduction in inequality caused by a single policy change since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, an…

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Berlin Wall relic gets a 'second life' on US-Mexico border as Biden adds barriers

As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away

Louder

"I and everybody else were old farts in her opinion" - Roger Waters on the night Sinéad O'Connor sang her spellbinding version of Pink Floyd's Mother

To mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, Roger Waters invited a stellar cast to Berlin for a restaging of Pink Floyd's The Wall - including The Scorpions, Joni Mitchell and Sinéad O'Connor

The Guardian - UK

The American Sector review – US road trip to hunt down remnants of the Berlin Wall

This film tells the story of concrete slabs that have been rehomed thousands of miles away in bizarre yet unremarkable locations

Reuters

German man held for role in fatal arson attack on asylum seekers in 1991

A German man has been arrested on suspicion of helping in the murder and attempted murder of 20 people at a fire at an asylum seekers hostel three decades ago, one of a series of attacks on foreigners after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Guardian - UK

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

France 24

'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)…

Evening Standard

OPINION - Charles driving into a minefield with his slimmed down monarchy plans

When the King marks his first state visit as monarch in Berlin today the setting will not be the the bland residence of the German head of state at Bellevue. Instead, the accommodation will be at the bustling Adlon hotel, with the walkabout and “meeting with citizens” staged at the…

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