As the country goes to the polls, writers explore, in fiction and non-fiction, its identity and values — and where these suggest it is heading ...

Horst Köhler spent most of his early life as a refugee and became a highly popular president. He was also lauded for his post ...

Germany heads to the polls this week facing a challenge for power from the far-right. In the run-up to the historic vote, ...

Despite making up less than one-fifth of the German population, eastern German voters are in particular focus ahead of the ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...