As rents continue to climb, housing has emerged as the defining battleground of Berlin’s September state election

As politicians clash over the response to the deadly attack, one man who escaped Islamist radicalisation is urging a more honest debate on extremism

Row over Jewish guest speaker at Bayreuth’s 150th anniversary reopens questions about Richard Wagner’s anti-Semitism and festival’s ties to Adolf Hitler

From forest walks to tearful group sessions, a new community is offering young men an alternative to toxic online influencers

As details emerge of the perpetrator’s failed attempts to join Islamic State, scrutiny is mounting on courts, police and deradicalisation efforts

‘Love is a terrible thing to hate’ read handmade sign at improvised memorial for victims of attack on one of Europe’s biggest Pride parades

One dead and at least 16 others injured after 21-year-old suspect with Islamist links flees crash scene

For one summer day Berlin celebrated its diversity. By midnight, the city was confronting violence, fear and an unsettling sense of vulnerability

For 316 days, Daniel Tatlow-Devally has been under 23-hour solitary lock-up, with limited visits and heavily screened communications

Nina Warken’s promotion to chancellor’s right hand seen as a reward for delivering a major healthcare reform package

Surge in support for far-right AfD leaves young woman from a village in former East Germany ‘very, very afraid’

Three decades after the chaos of the Swiss city’s ‘Needle Park’, supervised drug use and state-backed heroin treatment have cut harm, but crack has posed new challenges

Daniel Tatlow-Devally and four others charged with trespassing and an estimated €1m in criminal damage

Extradited neo-Nazi Marla-Svenja Liebich faces jail in Saxony as regional governments push to tighten self-identification legislation

An idea to make books look a bit more used, once jokingly proposed by one Myles na gCopaleen, has been made real in German capital