We catch up with Nena on a song that reflected both the 1980s’ geopolitical tensions and the era's underlying optimism - and ...

Long after they’ve closed, some bars take on legendary status. Histories of New York City in bygone years — whether it’s Low Life or Love Goes to Buildings on Fire — abound with them, for instance.

For months, the East Germans and Soviets had threatened a new Berlin cri sis if the West Germans persisted in their plan to convene the Federal Republic’s electoral college in the western half of the ...

Berlin boasts a unique concentration of noteworthy buildings from the 1980s, and more than 30 years later they deserve a review. The colourful diversity of this architectural vocabulary challenged ...

OMA’s 1987 proposal for a residential development at Checkpoint Charlie. Image © Office for Metropolitan Architecture The 1980s in Berlin was a strange decade: The ...

Q&A with Frederick Taylor, expert in modern German history. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Nov. 9, 1989, the barrier between ...

Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the barrier that divided West Berlin from East, and enclosed the West from the rest of East Germany. From 1961 to 1989, the iconic ...