People

Sérgio Santos Mendes is the man who brought Bossa Nova, Samba and Musica Popular Brasileira to the world. But this is only the simple version of a story that started exactly 80 years ago.

Margot Friedländer grew up in Kreuzberg. Her family was murdered by the Nazis. She survived Theresienstadt and emigrated to the United States. Ten years ago,…

Berlin has a best friend in the United States of America. Gail Halvorsen is turning 100 today. The city he helped so much congratulated him with a video clip.

Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier, a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, will receive the Nobel Prize. Governing Mayor Michael Müller congratulated her already.

Germany has a phenomenon called 'AfD', an extremist right-wing party that has entered all sixteen state parliaments and the Berlin Bundestag. The British…

Sean Smuda, a multi-talented artist from Minneapolis, lost everything in a fire. Then he ended up in Berlin, where he continues to create art of several kinds.

Anton Tal is one of the more creative expats in Berlin. He shoots the city's buildings, neighborhoods and train stations in order to turn them into futuristic entities that look more than impressive.

Alexander von Humboldt was a universal scholar who worked on his research relentlessly. His 5-year expedition on the American continent, his best-known project,…

While the United States of America are moving soldiers out of Germany, they are sending in a new Ambassador. Douglas Macgregor is a war hero. One with opinions.

In Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD), Hans-Jochen Vogel was one of the most important personalities for decades. The former First Mayor of Munich and Governing Mayor of West Berlin passed away on Sunday.