Archive - ZEITGEIST

Is today a historic day in Germany?

Saxony-Anhalt is heading to the polls and the world is watching - rightly so

Sep 6 • Katja Hoyer

How the Prussians got their hands on Cologne Cathedral

Of Catholics, Prussians, emperors and the improbable story of Cologne’s greatest landmark

Sep 3 • Katja Hoyer

August 2026

“Patience is running out” - Do some West Germans regret reunification?

Or: How old resentments are revived to explain new problems

Aug 30 • Katja Hoyer

From Housemaid to Camp Guard

How did ordinary people end up doing evil things?

Aug 27 • Katja Hoyer

The Strange Afterlife of the Berlin Wall

65 years on, there are still those who defend the GDR’s border regime

Aug 23 • Katja Hoyer

Goodbye, East Berlin?

An iconic former leisure palace might be the next GDR landmark to vanish

Aug 20 • Katja Hoyer

The AfD on the Threshold of Power

Explainer: Why all eyes are on Saxony-Anhalt

Aug 16 • Katja Hoyer

What could a German Portrait Gallery look like?

Heads and Headaches of a Nation

Aug 13 • Katja Hoyer

Berlin 1936: When Owens Met Long

Rivals, friends, Olympic legends. But how much of their story is true?

Aug 9 • Katja Hoyer

Did Dadaists invent Brainrot?

On the art of nonsense a century before TikTok

Aug 6 • Katja Hoyer

Austria has finally decided the fate of Hitler's birthplace...

...but can architecture ever escape the burden of memory?

Aug 2 • Katja Hoyer

July 2026

The Other Faces of Nuremberg

A new book shines a light on the forgotten architects of justice

Jul 30 • Katja Hoyer

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