Germany Archives

Echt Deutsch

by Yascha Mounk,

How the refugee crisis is changing a nation’s identity

Remains of the Day

by Christa Wolf, Katy Derbyshire,

By Christa Wolf (1929–2011), from One Day a Year, a journal that she kept each September 27 from 1960 until her death. The most recent volume will be published next month by…

The Emigrants

by Friedrich Trump,

From a letter written in 1905 by Friedrich Trump, Donald Trump’s grandfather, to Luitpold, prince regent of Bavaria. Trump had been ordered to leave Bavaria for failing to complete mandatory…

Europe’s Hamilton Moment

by Harper’s Magazine,

The euro and its discontents

Cut With the Kitchen Knife

by Rosmarie Waldrop, Ben Lerner,

We conventionally use the period to punctuate a finished thought. But Rosmarie Waldrop, one of the most innovative poets in English, deploys the period as a rest, often musical, in…

Wilt Thou not Walk

by Dorothy Thompson,

I never knew just when I passed the border into Germany because no frontier official stopped me. I thought it odd that there should be a border warfare so recently…

There are Other Forces at Work

by John Darnielle,

John Cage comes to Halberstadt

Road of Bad Intentions

by Joseph Roth,

From an article written by Joseph Roth for the newspaper Neue Berliner Zeitung in 1921 and included in The Hotel Years, a collection of Roth’s journalism out last month from…

The Genealogy of Orals

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,

By Friedrich Nietzsche, from Anti-Education, which will be published in November by New York Review Books. The volume gathers five lectures on “the future of our educational institutions” that the…

Doctoral Feces

by Matthias Gross,

From “Natural Waste: Canine Companions and the Lure of Inattentively Pooping in Public,” a study by Matthias Gross, published in the March 2015 issue of Environmental Sociology.

A Deeply Integrated Europe

by Emmanuel Todd, James K. Galbraith, Ulrike Guérot, John Gray, Christiane Lemke, Jeff Madrick,