Minell, in an Oscar-winning roll, plays a young, bohemian performer at the Kit Kat Klub in the last days of the Weimar ...

Those who draw a line from today to that infamous historical moment when democracy slid into authoritarianism are missing a key difference.

When a group of German Marxists arrived in Naples in the nineteen-twenties, they found a way of life that made them rethink ...

Neo-Nazis marched through the streets of the Short North, but events like this are not a rarity in Columbus. Why are fascist ...

A literary anniversary almost entirely unnoticed in the English-speaking world this year was that of Erich Kästner (1899-1974 ...

This month, Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain turns 100. One of the 20th century's towering literary ...

Otto Dix refused to flatter his subjects — but they agreed to sit for him anyway. I’m no prognosticator, but I’m anticipating the return, any day now, of the house style of Germany’s ...

Many German Jews in the 1920s Weimar Republic were promised full emancipation and citizenship rights, akin to the protections granted to Jewish communities in other European countries like England ...

If the US does not figure out a way to get Congress to do something responsible here,’ Weimar-type inflation could be ahead ...

Thomas Mann’s intellectual masterpiece is interested in time, love, mortality, culture – and the fragility of civilisation.

In some of your books, you made the link between climate change and these other forms of pollution, but also how they are ...