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Wolfgang Tillmans, “Outside Snax Club” (2001) (image by Wolfgang Tillmans, courtesy David Zwirner, New York, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne, Maureen Paley, London)Berlin nightclubs disappearing due to gentrification has become so common that Germans have come up with a word for the phenomenon: clubsterben, or “club death.” Pushed out by property developers…

Rob Long has been a writer and co-executive producer of the classic sitcom Cheers and other TV shows. A liberal who voted for Walter Mondale back in 1984, he became a conservative after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union and started writing for National Review in…

John Dorton/ISI Sports Images UPDATE: Thursday, 12 pm ET — Jurgen Klinsmann has been removed from Hertha Berlin's supervisory board after what the club's primary investor described as the "unacceptable" manner of his departure as head coach on Tuesday.  "I regret that Jurgen Klinsmann left us abruptly. I talked to him…

Welcome to TPG‘s series, Second Cities. The series is designed to help you find smaller or less-popular-but-equally-amazing places to visit no more than a few hours by air or land from your original destination so you can maximize your itinerary. Berlin, with a reputation for being “poor but sexy,” offers…

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Being alive often means living through some genuinely horrific or at least incredibly dramatic events. Events like 9/11, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Pearl Harbor, all of these irrevocably changed the world when they happened. If you were alive in 1963, you m…

By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court on Tuesday ruled a 700-year-old anti-Semitic sculpture could stay on the exterior of a church in the city of Wittenberg, dismissing a claim by a member of the local Jewish community that it was defamatory and …

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The "City Hostel" in Berlin may look fairly innocuous from the outside -- but it now faces closure in an unlikely legal drama over international sanctions against North Korea. Situated just a stone's throw from Checkpoint Charlie, the hostel offers cheap acc…

An American civil rights activist whose life is the subject of a new Hollywood film has told how he was inspired by a little known Holocaust memorial built by German primary school children.  Bryan Stevenson, whose struggle against racism has been turned into the movie Just Mercy, told how a…