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Barbara Geier

Wiesn light

Even non-beer drinker Barbara Geier enjoys the Oktoberfest. Read here why.

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Travel tips for autumn

Travel tips for autumn

Here’s a selection of good reasons why you should be considering a quick trip to Germany before the winter closes in.

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It wasn’t all bad

As the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall approaches, teacher-trainer Mark Andrews recalls the sometimes-forgotten good bits of life on the other side.

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Andrew Eames

Damned if they do, damned if they don’t

The opening of a massive youth hostel in a Nazi-designed building has raised more than a few eyebrows around the world.

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Tales from the fast trains

Writer Tom Chesshyre finds that German train travel is about speed, punctuality – and junkies and applewine.

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From the Hamburg Brit to the Berlin gob

Let’s face it, every nation has its stereotypes.

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The beautiful game

Women’s football has come a long way since 1989, when the European Champions were rewarded with – a crockery set! The FIFA Women’s World Cup is under way in Germany, and it started with a real flourish in Berlin, as an emotional Susanne Pleines reports.

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Andrew Eames

We’re all in this together!

Britain is aghast at the news that we’re ’50 percent German’. Or is it?

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Stuttgart goes off the rails

What’s going on in the quiet, posh and uber-clean capital of Baden-Württemberg? Daniela Faulhaber, a Stuttgarter who organises and writes about cultural travels, fills us in on ‘Stuttgart 21’.

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Andrew Eames

Words, Words, Words

From angst to blitz, dachshund to doppelgänger, and ersatz to hinterland, there’s lots of German in English. And there’s plenty which is untranslateable, too.

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