Inside Story

Books & Arts We in Germany Klaus Neumann 8 May 2023 Who’s in and who’s out in the new Germany? Correspondents The egotism of German pacifism Klaus Neumann 14 March 2023 Our correspondent casts a critical eye over an emerging German peace movement Correspondents Germany’s arithmetic Klaus Neumann 28 September 2021 Almost every party claims to have done well in Sunday’s election, but forming a new government requires an unprecedented coalition of three parties Correspondents Disappearing act Klaus Neumann 14 September 2021 In the second part of our series on this month’s German election, our correspondent wonders about what has been left out of the debate

Correspondents Cancelling Bismarck Klaus Neumann 18 November 2020 Black Lives Matter, a princess from Zanzibar and Germany’s “memorial hygiene” Correspondents Tipping points Klaus Neumann 12 May 2020 Germany’s anti-lockdown protests aren’t only about the coronavirus Correspondents Anatomy of a broken taboo Klaus Neumann 19 February 2020 An election in a tiny East German state has reverberated all the way to the top of the country’s politics Correspondents How Australia’s love affair with coal looks from afar, and why it matters Klaus Neumann 4 February 2020 Europeans have been watching Australia’s bushfires and climate change policies with growing dismay

International Cautionary tales from the birthplace of bureaucracy Paul ’t Hart 12 March 2018 Even in modern Germany, government maladministration can have tragic effects International The Germany of 2017 Klaus Neumann 22 December 2017 As the shape of the new government becomes clearer, Germany’s longest-running police show illuminates the political challenge ahead Essays & Reportage Historians’ disgrace? Mathew Turner 14 November 2017 Controversy has erupted in Germany over the attitudes of key researchers at the Institute for Contemporary History in the 1950s. But does the evidence support the critics’ case? Correspondents The stamina of Angela Merkel Klaus Neumann 12 September 2017 A sedate contest between the major parties contrasts with the passion evoked on the far right