Culture / Arts
Art in Berlin
Berlin’s vibrant arts scene is getting serious and growing up. Creatives are making real investments in the city to transform its unusual spaces.
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Affairs / Diplomacy
The Nordic Embassies, Berlin
The Nordic nations’ Berlin embassies share one of the world’s most architecturally unique buildings. Monocle learns how careful thinking about architecture and design is helping these nations punch above their weight in the…
Design / Graphic Design
Monocolumn
Tuesday 18 October
The world’s perkiest traffic light man
The enduring symbols of the former East Germany are not particularly cherishable; the Stasi, brutalist architecture, steroid-riddled athletes.
Affairs / Aviation
Monocolumn
Wednesday 1 June
Life after death for Berlin’s old airports
A year from today, the long-awaited Berlin Brandenburg International airport (BBI) will open next to the site of Berlin-Schönefeld, finally ending a long and drawn out game of airport musical chairs. The new airport will…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 16 June
Education hits the rocks
Emotions are running wild in the run up to a referendum in July in which Hamburg citizens will decide whether to abolish what are known in Germany as Hauptschule.
Affairs / Entrepreneurialism
Monocolumn
Sunday 17 January
Germans get adventurous
After years of longing for a job for life and worshipping the ideal of staying at home in comfort, Germans are showing signs of becoming globally minded entrepreneurs.
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Monday 26 October
Earning his stripes
One of the few bright appointments the new German government produced during its coalition negotiations – the controversial results of which were announced yesterday – is the country’s future defence minister.
Affairs / Government
Federal Foreign Office
If you're Germany, you have no option but to assert yourself globally with a softly, softly approach.
Business / Urbanism
Prinzessinnengarten
Urban gardening: We spend a day on the farm in deepest Berlin to find out how urban agriculture is taking root in the German capital.
Culture / Arts
Double vision
While trends come and go in the art world, gallery owners Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers have been nurturing artists for 26 years. Their old fashioned approach has paid off and they are the ones to watch in 2010.
Business / Transport
Back on track
Tram and urban light-rail projects are booming as cities turn their backs on car culture. Bombardier is the global leader in the field and provides stock to such places as Stockholm, Geneva and Brussels. We met its pres…
Business / Aviation
Monocolumn
Tuesday 4 October
Terminal optimism at Berlin flight-route summit
In early June next year, Berlin’s long-awaited international airport, the Berlin-Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt, opens a shiny new facility with a starting capacity of 27 million passengers (expandable to 45 million).
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Saturday 3 April
Changes to military service
In 1990 when I did my German civilian service – working in a hospital – it took 15 months, three months more than the military conscription option
Affairs / Technology
Monocolumn
Wednesday 23 December
2010: Germany gets connected
Berlin politicians wanting to see a modern society systematically implement the right of free online-access should look at Estonia.
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Friday 22 January
Germans want their troops home
A few days before the international Afghanistan conference in London on 28 January, there are overwhelming signs that Germans are tired of sending their soldiers into a war many believe cannot be won.
Culture / Media
Monocolumn
Sunday 22 November
The new Berlin wall
I’ve spent the past few days tucked away in a secret hideaway in the headquarters of the German publishing house Axel Springer, helping create what the company thinks could be the salvation of newspapers.
Affairs / Technology
Monocolumn
Wednesday 25 November
Speaking to the digital natives
On Monday and Tuesday this week, senior German managers and politicians gathered in a converted factory in Berlin Tempelhof to listen to and learn from the so-called “digital natives” or Generation Y.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Sunday 20 September
Mentioning the war
Next Sunday, Germany will decide whether to re-elect its first female head of government. Until recently, however, the campaign has not just been lacklustre, it’s been non-existent.