Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, 83, the most prominent television commentator in East Germany who for decades railed against capitalism on his weekly show, died Thursday of pneumonia in Zeuthen ...

The German TV show Deutschland '83, about spies in East Germany during the Cold War, premieres on American television soon. NPR's Rachel Martin talks with its creators, Anna and Joerg Winger.

Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay) is a 24-year-old border guard in the German Democratic Republic — East Germany. His mother, Ingrid ( Carina N. Weise ), is on dialysis and needs a kidney transplant.

Frank Beyer, 74, a well-known film director in the former East Germany who saw some of his movies banned by its communist authorities, died Sunday in Berlin after a long illness.

The far-right Alternative for Germany won a state election for the first time Sunday in the country's east, and was set to finish at least a very close second in a second vote, projections showed.

Oboists rarely strike out on their own. James Austin Smith’s recent program at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust—pieces culled entirely from the vaults of the German Democratic Republic—was a ...

In October 1989 – exactly 35 years ago – he took to the streets, alongside 70,000 other East Germans, ... filmed the demonstrations here in 1989 and leaked the footage to West German television.

East Germany is, quite simply, part of German history and the country she grew up in. To ignore it, or to understand it through Cold war clichés, would be to misunderstand German history as a whole.

When the Berlin Wall fell 35 years ago, Americans could watch live on television as grievous wrongs were righted. The tyrannical East German state collapsed, and freedom was restored in the heart ...

BERLIN — Erwin Geschonneck, a German actor who spent years in Nazi concentration camps for his communist sympathies and went on to star in scores of East German films, died Wednesday, the ...