Anna Seghers News Today

Heartfield’s artistic efforts of the 1920s and 1930s were directed against the same militarists, nationalists and fascists once again crawling out of the woodwork of today’s crisis-ridden capitalist society.

Hoping to build "the better Germany," many Jewish artists and intellectuals left their mark in the former communist East Germany. A small community kept religious practices alive, despite Soviet repression.

The German director’s latest is a sly comedy about writer’s block, a bad vacation, and the catastrophe of a warming world.

Review of a Netflix series on the efforts to get refugees out of Marseilles in 1940-41

Christian Petzold, Germany’s most admired contemporary film-maker, didn’t realise how funny – and possibly revealing – his new movie is

As his new film Afire goes on release, we pick a path through Christian Petzold’s haunted, slippery tales of modern Germany.

Berlin is the final resting place of a number of renowned writers - and their grave sites make for surprisingly alluring spots for summer excursions.

One of the most remarkable collections of political and cultural figures ever assembled, reduced by the defeats of the working class to a wretched condition, is gathered in Marseille.

Seizing upon the margin of artistic freedom she was allowed, Brigitte Reimann captured life in the G.D.R.—and her own fissured commitments.

BERLIN—For me, Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann were the two greatest German authors of the 20th century, and Brecht, a believer in socialism—and a fighter for it—is admittedly closer to my heart than Mann. In my three different U.S.