Publisher Be Damned
The feud at Germany’s most respected publishing house reads like a passage from Vanity Fair written by Thomas Mann
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Assessing Angela
‘At the election in September, Germans will have to decide whether Angela Merkel’s modesty and prudence are proof enough of her virtue’
Turkish Wrath
‘Despite the Turkish origins of most of the victims, the Munich court failed to allocate a single press seat in the Zschäpe murder trial to a Turkish media outlet’
Germany’s Surprising Scepticism
‘Germany is seeing a definite increase in Euroscepticism—and now it’s coming from the Left too’
Dirty Old Mensch
'"You could certainly fill a dirndl," the elder statesman said, before taking her hand, kissing it and propositioning her'
Kultur Shock
‘Journalists discussed the prospective disappearance of their newspapers as if they were watching their own funeral but not quite believing their eyes’
Trashyplatz
‘Strolling around Alexanderplatz one cold but sunny afternoon, I was surprised at just how trashy it is’
Home Sweet Home From Home
'One can become American but one can never become English'
Olympian Angst
'Germans longed for Olympic medals as validation, but were surprised at how London rose to the occasion'
Still Not Equal
'A friend asked her editor for a pay rise. Surely, he replied, her husband was earning enough to support them both'
Israel Left Behind
‘The seriousness of a left-wing movement in today’s Europe can be measured by its stance towards Israel’
Betrayed by Günter Grass
'I was fond of my father's old friend Günter Grass. I'd like to think he knew better'