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Stefan Pfeiffer confronted the motorists taking photos on the autobahn near Nuremberg, Germany, in 2019.

From a tense atmosphere at a ceremony to mark 75 years of Germany's constitution to citizenship language requirements and a vomit toilet, here's what The Local team has been talking about in Germany this week.

From a campaign to encourage foreigners to apply for German citizenship and the clunky process of getting married in Germany to an East German cinema, here are a few of the things we've been talking about this week.

This airport was shrouded in secrecy for decades during the Communist era but is now free to visit for those who dare.

Germany has unfairly earned a resurgence of an old nickname, the "sick man of Europe," says Deutsche Bank

Germany is the world’s worst-performing major developed economy, as it struggles to deal with the energy crisis.

Inflation, supply-chain kinks and the continuing war in Ukraine continue to be serious concerns, but numerous companies with a global presence for exports are reporting optimism at the start of 2023.

From the blog of Robert L. Kern at The Times of Israel

For many years, the residents of the leafy town of Cochem in the German Rhineland went about their daily business with no idea they were living on a gold mine.

Neben den 12,8 Millionen Wahlbenachrichtigungen werden in NRW demnächst auch Millionen Briefwahl-Unterlagen verschickt. Die Abstimmung per Post dürfte infolge der Pandemie stark zunehmen.