The Blog

Refugee Filmmaker in Berlin

Some memories of the 1984 Nobel Peace Laureate

How laity and bishops got together to push for reforms

Reflections of a journalist in Berlin

Investigative journalist, speaker of truth to power

“It is the most trying Madiba Day since democracy”

Hope in 1989, horror in 1938 and peace in 1918

30 years after reunification still no unity

Sea-Watch 4 set sail in Mediterranean

Roman Catholic bishops in Germany confess guilt

Director Mohammad Rasoulof refused permission to travel to Berlin

No travel permission for Chinese visitors to Berlinale

Silver Bear named after first Berlinale director Alfred Bauer shelved

Films on Berlin and dark-side of humans beings in competition

Burdened by historical guilt - how Germans remember

Getting Christmas all wrong in a new society

30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: how Berlin change impacted on southern Africa

A book tracing the difficult road to reconciliation in South Africa

A Century of German History Mirrors the History of one East-Berlin Family

A goddaughter’s obituary