Can we still give peace a chance?

Can we still give peace a chance?

In the face of the rapid escalation of the war in the Ukraine, tens of thousands come together in Berlin to protest for peace People at the anti-war demonstration near Berlin’s Brandenburger Tor express their opinion of Putin’s aggression. Photograph:...
Turmoil in Thuringia

Turmoil in Thuringia

Image tweeted by die Linke leader in Thuringia, Bodo Ramelow: “Hold your head up, not your hands!” With the shock election of a minority party member to the position of minister president of Thuringia with the help of the AfD, Germany’s political landscape...
Mysterious crossbow killings in Bavaria

Mysterious crossbow killings in Bavaria

Police are baffled at a spate of macabre deaths in the historic and otherwise peaceful city of Passau Screenshot from Süddeutsche Zeitung’s website A CRIME in the Bavarian city of Passau has horrified as much as mystified the police – and the general...
International Women’s Day Berlin

International Women’s Day Berlin

Berlin’s new bank holiday gives birth to a revealing performance The Growler, aka artist Dee Mulrooney, appearing on stage in Berlin It’s not every day you get to watch a giant vulva reveal itself on stage to the lilting tones of Ave Maria sung sean-nós. It was...
Political earthquake in Bavaria

Political earthquake in Bavaria

THE dust is far from settling over Sunday’s parliamentary election in Bavaria. The CSU, a behemoth of Bavarian – and a frequent irritation in Federal German – politics, lost the absolute majority they’ve more or less held for decades. They are...