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 ...

Half of the 200,000 East German refugees who have been arriving each year in the Federal Republic are under the age of twenty-five; their loss grows more serious each year to East Germany, for a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Now that “DDR/DDR,” Amie Siegel’s film essay on the legacies of the former German Democratic Republic and its surveillance culture, is receiving a one-week commercial release, she wants us ...

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 ...