Kosher Craze
‘Their grandparents fled the Nazis, their parents boycotted all things German, but their children are flocking to Berlin’
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Survivor of Stasiland
The death of Christa Wolf has left Germany bereft of a powerful bridge of literary consciousness, whose universal work could talk to a once-divided nation
German Hysteria
‘In Germany, whether it’s a matter of beansprouts or nuclear power plants, moral superiority can quickly turn into self-centred hysteria’
Romanticising Rosa
The Left must abstain from lionizing the life and work of the Polish-born German Marxist martyr, Rosa Luxemburg
That’s Politainment!
‘When Mr Googleberg attempts a comeback, he will come up against a German attachment to truth and decency’
No Wunder, Women
‘Every woman among male egos knows she has to fight a war—an older colleague calling you “Blondie”, for instance’
Past Lives
‘Who would want a dusty collection of children’s books, their spines broken, written in German?’
Will Germany be a Divided Nation Again?
The Turkish-born German sociologist and critic of Islamism Necla Kelek and the classical liberal economist Karen Horn discuss the failure of integration with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson, in Berlin
The German Question
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson; Fame by Daniel Kehlmann; The Box by Günter Grass; and Portrait of the Mother as
Abolish the Author
The reaction to Thilo Sarrazin's courageous book shows that Germany is indeed abolishing itself
A Tale of Two Presidents
'In the Old World, a leader is criticised — and quits — for being too emotional. In the New World, a leader is criticised for not being emotional enough'
Nabokov in Berlin
'Perhaps tying works of art to their originating topography is vulgar and needs to be kept discreet. But history needs Nabokov. During the artistically formative years, he lived here in the 1920s