The Latest Breaking News from the Berlin Wall

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:…

The longest-serving parliamentarian in German history, who played a pivotal role in reunification after the fall of the Berlin Wall

To mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, Roger Waters invited a stellar cast to Berlin for a restaging of Pink Floyd's The Wall - including The Scorpions, Joni Mitchell and Sinéad O'Connor

This film tells the story of concrete slabs that have been rehomed thousands of miles away in bizarre yet unremarkable locations

A German man has been arrested on suspicion of helping in the murder and attempted murder of 20 people at a fire at an asylum seekers hostel three decades ago, one of a series of attacks on foreigners after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Is Britain’s sudden appetite for the GDR an unhealthy obsession? Katja Hoyer, author of Beyond the Wall, examines the new wave of books and shows about life under the Stasi in the vanished state

On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, symbolising the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Plenty of books, essays and documentaries have been devoted to the historic turning point, but hearing from East Germans about how they experienced the four decades of the German Democratic Republic (GDR)…

When the King marks his first state visit as monarch in Berlin today the setting will not be the the bland residence of the German head of state at Bellevue. Instead, the accommodation will be at the bustling Adlon hotel, with the walkabout and “meeting with citizens” staged at the…

Structure created by builders putting up new homes - but work has stalled