Opened in May by entrepreneurs Daniel Helbig, 35, and Guido Sand, 33, Ostel -- a German mashup of "East" and "Hostel" -- lucratively exploits the trend of "Ostalgie," or nostalgia for the lost ...

As the Palast der Republik, the former house of the East German parliament is gradually dismantled, a new temple to the failed state has opened its doors a stone's throw away: the DDR Museum.

Much of the former East Germany has had its vestiges of that era wiped away, inspiring an odd longing for the 40 years the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) held power that is called Ostalgie ...

MODERN EAST: Build Your Own Modernist DDR is the new book by Zupagrafika celebrating socialist modernist and brutalist architecture of the former East Germany and allows you to playfully ...

Three generations after East Germany rejected Christianity, group of prayerful believers now see an opportunity. A view of remains of the Berlin Wall. Christianity Today March, 2023 issue ...

Katja Hoyer on East Germany, behind the Berlin Wall and the Cold War caricature. ... Anne McElvoy hears about a new history of East Germany and why we need to dismantle the old clichés about the DDR.

The DDR refers to the former East Germany. The recent Thuringian rise of the Die Linke, a democratic descendant of the communist party which ruled old East Germany, has stirred emotions in Germany.