The Latest Breaking News from East Germany

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a team of archivists has been tirelessly sorting, pasting and reassembling documents that were destroyed by the Stasi, the East German secret police. Nicknamed the "Puzzle Women", these heroines of collective memory face the Herculean task of piecing together these files:…

In December 1963, an agreement between East and West Germany allowed West Berliners to obtain one-day passes to visit relatives in East Berlin

Born to Ukrainian parents in communist East Germany, the software developer Vlad Yatsenkopreviously worked for Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, where he built traditional financial systems.

Samuel Meffire was the face of an ad campaign to show a different side to the former GDR but later served time for armed robbery

Sam — A Saxon on Disney Plus stars Malick Bauer and follows the true story of the first black police officer in East Germany.

This revisionist history of East Germany paints a picture of a land that catered for its people’s needs – albeit while subjecting them to constant state surveillance

A revisionist history that adds stability, contentment and women’s rights to the familiar picture of authoritarianism

This vivid autobiographical novel – now published in English for the first time – offers an intriguing insight into East Germany in the early 60s

Emily Atef’s drama, following a dreamy teenager into an affair with a middle-aged man, addresses difficult material with a driving narrative force