Germany

Mood music from the past

A confidential matter: the letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935

Features
Was test and trace doomed to fail?

If nothing else, Dido Harding has outperformed her European counterparts

Artillery Row
European champions

Kampfner has written a scrupulously researched yet not uncritical tribute to postwar Germany

Books
The imperial court of the ECJ

The dismantlement of the EU’s separation of powers has wider implications, especially for the UK

Artillery Row
How I discovered Germany

Daniel Johnson on how he found a lost love for the Germans

Artillery Row
How Hollywood managed to celebrate German culture in 1954

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s musical coming out just nine years after the end of World War II invited Germany back into polite society

Artillery Row
Myths of the Prophet Max

Daniel Johnson on the life and work of Max Weber, whose controversial views on democracy still resonate today

Features
Germany’s Red Army Faction

Ominous parallels between 1970s West Germany and Britain today

Artillery Row
Lifetimes of self-isolation

Composing in seclusion

On Music
Requiem for a bad meal

Lisa Hilton mourns the pleasure of good company – even in a cynically awful faux Italian in Berlin

Eating Out