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New Berlin wall built for U2 gig to mark fall of old one

U2 perform in front of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Photograph: Robert Schlesinger/EPA Twenty years ago, thousands of Germans converged at the Berlin Wall to watch as the hated barrier ...

From KATE CONNOLLY, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U2 (musician),  MTV,  Environmental Protection Agency,  Bono,  David Hasselhoff

Dresden courtroom stabbing trial opens

Alexander Wiens enters the courtroom in Dresden. Photograph: Ralf Hirschberger/AP Metal barriers, body scanners, bullet-proof glass, 200 police officers and rooftop marksmen have transformed Dresden's district courthouse into a high security bubble ...

From KATE CONNOLLY, Guardian Unlimited,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Angela Merkel

Merkel strikes coalition deal

Three weeks of protracted negotiations between Angela Merkel's conservatives and the Free Democrats ended earlytoday when the parties signed a coalition deal focused on tax cuts. The parties eventually agreed on €24bn of cuts in an attempt to spur ...

From KATE CONNOLLY, Guardian Unlimited,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Angela Merkel,  Guido Westerwelle,  BBC

Bertelsmann: the power and the story

Reinhard and Elisabeth Mohn in a photograph taken in 1991. Photograph: Bertelsmann/AFP/Getty Images Reinhard Mohn, the entrepreneur behind Europe's largest media group, Bertelsmann, shared the initials and ambitions of the media moguls Robert Maxwell ...

From KATE CONNOLLY, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Reinhard Mohn,  Rupert Murdoch,  Robert Maxwell,  United Nations,  Random House Inc

Nazi gnomes cause outcry in Germany

Pint-sized, plastic and the height of kitsch they may be, but no one in Germany would usually think twice about seeing a garden gnome, given there are 25 million of them across the country. But a battery of 1,250 of them that appeared on a square in a ...

From KATE CONNOLLY, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Oct 2009

Dachau link with Israel angers survivors

The German town of Dachau has become the first location of a former Nazi death camp to establish a partnership with an Israeli town in a controversial "peace and understanding" agreement. Twenty-two other German towns are twinned with Israeli towns, ...

From KATE CONNOLLY, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Oct 2009

Karl Lagerfeld says only 'fat mummies' object to thin models

A model wears a Karl Lagerfeld creation for Chanel at Paris Fashion Week. Photograph: Lucas Dolega/EPA Karl Lagerfeld, the eccentric German fashion tsar, has waded into the debate about size-zero models by saying that people want to look at "skinny ...

From KATE CONNOLLY, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Karl Lagerfeld,  Chanel,  Environmental Protection Agency,  John Ribbe

Brigitte bans professional models

• In 2006 the fashion world was rocked after a string of models, including Uruguayan sisters Luisel and Eliana Ramos, died after extreme dieting. The Council of Fashion Designers of America recommended that runway models be aged over 16, Spain banned ...

From KATE CONNOLLY, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Angela Merkel,  Steffi Graf,  Ursula von der Leyen

Westerwelle sets sights on foreign ministry

He is in some senses the real winner of the German election. While Angela Merkel was savouring her re-election today and starting to form a centre-right coalition, Guido Westerwelle of the Free Democratic party was basking in his sudden emergence as ...

From KATE CONNOLLY, Guardian Unlimited,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Angela Merkel,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Guido Westerwelle,  BBC

Merkel to head centre-right coalition

A Bavarian boy in traditional costume in Baiernrain looks on in yesterday's voting which gave Angela Merkel a second term. Photograph: Michaela Rehle/Reuters The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, was tonight swept back into power as the ...

From KATE CONNOLLY, Guardian Unlimited,  27 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Angela Merkel,  Guido Westerwelle,  Helmut Kohl,  Frank-Walter Steinmeier,  Roland Koch

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