Learning from Ukraine: Karl Schlögel’s Peace Prize Speech and Europe’s Moral Wake-Up Call

Historian Karl Schlögel, winner of the 2025 Peace Prize, urges Europe to learn from Ukraine's courage and reject a "peace" built on fear, trade-offs…

Oct 21

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We will dance again

Watch now | An exhibition on the Nova Music Festival massacre, marking two years since October 7th — and a beacon of hope now coming to life.

Oct 9

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Air, light, sunshine and lots of greenery: Berlin's dream of housing for all

IN PICTURES A tour of Berlin's suburbs, where the Weimar Republic realised its dream of healthy housing, combining architectural innovation…

Oct 3

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September 2025

When Bullets Speak Louder than Ballots: Weimar Lessons for the Present Times

ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK WITH EXTRA MATERIALS | Political Assassinations and the Erosion of Democracy: 1920s Europe to 2025.

Sep 22

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Brecht's Children's Anthem: The Shadow Anthem of a Better Germany

During every German anniversary—whether it's about the Wall, Unity or the Constitution—the divide between east and west reveals itself in symbols that…

Sep 8

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Giacomo Casanova: The Twilight of a Man and the Birth of a Myth

Without the final thirteen years of his life spent in a remote Bohemian castle, the Casanova myth would never have emerged. A tale of a human twilight…

Sep 3

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August 2025

Very Symbolic, Very Concrete, Very Disputed: Israel as German "Staatsräson"

From post-war reparations to semi-covert arms deals, from memory politics to identity struggles — Israel's place in Germany's Reason of State is…

Aug 22

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Jew Süss: The Many Lives and Deaths of Joseph Süßkind Oppenheimer

From novellas and theatrical plays to a 1925 literary masterpiece and a 1940 Nazi propaganda film, the true legacy of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, executed…

Aug 8

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July 2025

Potsdam 1945: The Seventeen Days That Shaped the Post-War Order

In July 1945, the three Allied powers met in Potsdam near Berlin to shape the post-war world. Their decisions redrew Europe's map, laid Cold War…

Jul 23

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Srebrenica: where were we all, when it happened?

11-17 July 1995: the Srebrenica massacre. Europe's darkest week and its devastating legacy. A genocide, a thirty-year funeral procession, surrounded by…

Jul 11

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German, an open language.

In multilingual Europe, the only truly viable option, German is once again becoming a bridge between East and West, open and inclusive.

Jul 1

June 2025

Putin´s war against women.

Sofi Oksanen's "Same River, Twice" and Victoria Amelina's "Looking at Women Looking at War." Two books, one message, three words: woman, war, justice.

Jun 27

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