Berlin
Farewell Bernie Gunther: Metropolis, by Philip Kerr, reviewed
Philip Kerr’s first Bernie Gunther novel, March Violets, was published 30 years ago. From the start, the format was a…
The fall of Daniel Barenboim
A few years ago, I hooked up with a BBC team in Berlin to record a programme with Daniel Barenboim.…
Brothers grim
What is a serious film festival doing opening with Ethan and Joel Coens’ turkey Hail, Caesar!? James Woodall reports from Berlin
Diary
Scientists are experimenting with growing replacement vocal cords in the lab, as well as transplanting them from dogs. That was…
The swastika was always in plain sight
Ordinary Germans under the Third Reich did have wills of their own, argues Dominic Green. Most actively embraced Nazi ideology, and were aware of the extermination of the Jews. As the war worsened for them, what did they think they were fighting for?
Complicated, but unfussy
Amory Clay, photographer and photo-journalist, was born in 1908, only two years after Logan Mountstuart, writer, poseur and ‘scribivelard’. Amory…
Two batons better
The morning after the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra failed to elect a music director, I took a call from Bild-Zeitung, Berlin’s…
A bounder par excellence
In his time, Gerald Hamilton (1890–1970) was an almost legendary figure, but he is now remembered — if at all…
Scabrous wit
I suspect I am not alone in finding it surprising to encounter at the close of this exhibition an unexpected…
Remaking history
What does freedom mean to you? That’s the question the BBC World Service has been asking of us through its…
Peak practice
William Cook visits the Kirchner Museum in Davos, the Alpine town where the German Expressionist found refuge and inspiration
Modern master
William Cook talks to the architect David Chipperfield, whose work has made him a star in Germany
Painting out the past
The discovery of a hoard of lost paintings is a reminder that denial still exists in the German art world
Ashes to ashes
‘I cannot describe to you what a curious note of brutality a bomb has,’ said one woman who lived through…
The war on Barbie
She’s loathed by topless German neo-feminists. But isn’t it time to cut her some slack?
