What Was Life Like in East Germany?" has won an International Emmy Award for its innovative depiction of the world behind the Berlin Wall.

Progress Film, the historic distributor established in 1950 to handle the release of films produced by communist East Germany’s state-owned film studio, has announced plans to relaunch theatrical ...

A show at the German Historical Museum honors Wolf Biermann, whose music and moral stance endeared him to audiences across the once divided country. By Christopher F. Schuetze Christopher Schuetze ...

No one has ever become world-famous by playing the oboe. Although the instrument has an integral role in the orchestral ecosystem—every ensemble tunes to its piercing A—the sweet-and-sour tang of its ...

BERLIN (AP) — Swedish furniture giant Ikea will release a report this week addressing claims it benefited from forced labor in communist East Germany, the company and victims groups said Monday. The ...

BERLIN — An 80-year-old former officer with East Germany’s Stasi secret police was found guilty Monday of killing a 38-year-old Polish man at a border crossing in East Berlin 50 years ago. Martin ...

Near the East German village of Wandlitz, nine miles to the east of Berlin, is a most unusual settlement. It is a walled-in compound of semi-forested land and wide lawns, within which sit some 20 ...

What wears a uniform, stamps pass ports and has a title 53 letters long? Answer: Angehoriger des Zolls der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik —a member of the customs office of the German Democratic ...