People

In Berlin, people squeeze into those 'U-Bahn' trains to get from 'A' to 'B' in the morning. Once the day is over, they go back to 'A'. And 'A' is usually the station people identify with. This is where Tom Bäcker comes in.

Forty years ago, a big idea was implemented, when Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick founded Incognito. Since, the band has delivered truckloads of the most brilliant…

Without Ferdinand Piëch, the German auto industry would look different today. That is how much influence the engineer had. Ferdinand Porsche's grandson shaped…

In her early films she was the little girl from Vienna, where she was born into a family of actors. Even her great-grandfather was in the ‘business’. What she wrote into her diary while attending a boarding school for girls as a teenager might have been dictated by her genes: “I need to become an actress. I just have to.”

Smadar Pery fights antisemitic streets vendors, terrorists and ignorance by spreading the reality about Israel online, and by talking to people on the streets…

In 1999, Merkel was not Kohl's 'little girl' anymore. She even broke with him. As the CDU's secretary general, she criticized her former mentor in an opinion…

It was in 1969 when Walter Scheel made history. Obviously, it took him some effort to convince his party to change horses in 1969. He wanted the FDP to join the Social Democrats (SPD) in a center-left government coalition. His plan was implemented on October 22nd, 1969, when Scheel became Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor under Willy Brandt.

Today, there are less than 20 ice cream trucks in Berlin. The Italian expat drives one of them. This city may not be as beautiful as the island of Ischia, but…

Anton Tal reinvents Berlin by creating 'wormhole' and 'tiny planet' pictures. Those are abstract photo compositions he achieves by first shooting truckloads of…

After the story of her death broke, Berlin's Governing Mayor Michael Müller said Judith Kerr's books were "part of our collective memory", and this would continue to be the case. The author's fate would always be connected to her birth city of Berlin.