Berlin is one of the largest cities in Europe (about nine times the size of Paris), so traversing this gigantic metropolis in a limited period of time can seem daunting. Attractions are spread out ...

In early August 1961, a letter arrived at the Berlin Zoo’s administration office. A visitor’s annual pass had been taken away because she’d fed animals without permission. Not so very long before, ...

In Berlin’s battle for buzz, the rapidly transforming districts in the eastern quarters have been the winners for more than a decade. That is beginning to change, as the former heart of West Berlin, ...

BERLIN — Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German capital — divided for decades by bricks and barbed wire — has slowly grown back together. Few visible scars remain other than those ...

Profile'Being 20 in West Berlin' (1/6). The actor, writer, translator, and photographer, a figure of Germany's artistic and intellectual scene, arrived in the walled-in city in the early 1970s. He ...

Profile'Being 20 in West Berlin' (5/6). Writer, actress and theater director, the now 60-something Emine Sevgi Özdamar arrived in Germany from Turkey as a young woman to work in a factory. Very ...