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    • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
      Travelista
      Five industrial landmarks turned chic hotels

      Brilliantly upcycled escapes, from Tasmania to Mexico

    • Monday, 2 January, 2023
      Technology sector
      Flink hits €400mn in sales as German grocery app seeks to narrow losses

      Berlin-based start-up aims for profits next year as rivals struggle for cash

    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      House & Home Christmas Special 2022
      Hot property: five homes for sale with Christmas spirit

      From a penthouse apartment in Manhattan’s Upper East Side to an Austrian farmhouse with easy access to the slopes

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      ReviewMusic
      Der fliegende Holländer, Komische Oper — Wagner meets Pirates of the Caribbean

      New Berlin production has tawdry visuals and ear-splittingly loud music

    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
      ReviewMusic
      René Jacobs takes a hatchet to Vivaldi with Il Giustino

      The first opera by the composer to be performed at Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden provides an effervescent evening

    • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
      German politics
      Berlin’s chaotic regional election must be rerun, court orders

      Pandemonium at last year’s state parliament poll included shortages of ballot boxes and papers

    • Monday, 14 November, 2022
      Residential
      Fantasy home: a desire to recreate the past, just like the film, Good Bye Lenin!

      To overcome feelings of disquiet, our writer, like Daniel Brühl’s character, would borrow what he loved about his previous homes to shape his abode

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      Political espionage
      Former security guard at British embassy in Berlin admits spying for Russia

      David Ballantyne Smith attempted to communicate with Moscow military attaché, among other offences

    • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Europe’s Franco-German motor needs mending

      Berlin and Paris should each pay heed to the other’s concerns

    • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
      FT MagazineYuan Yang
      From East Berlin to Beijing, surveillance goes in circles

      Lessons from a trip to the Stasi’s former HQ

    • Sunday, 9 October, 2022
      HTSIThe HTSI autumn design special 2022
      Christian Jankowoski, at home in Berlin

      The artist’s loft and studio are a mirror to his subversive works 

    • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
      Arts
      Berlin’s Humboldt Forum opens amid controversy over power and plunder

      The galleries of the reconstructed Prussian palace are central to today’s heated debates about looted artworks

    • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
      ReviewMusic
      Thomas Adès plays it loud and brutal in Berliner Philharmoniker debut

      The British composer lacked delicacy, even when conducting his own pieces, but Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto excelled

    • Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
      German economy
      German companies halt production to cope with rising energy prices

      Economy minister Robert Habeck describes trend as ‘alarming’ for country’s Mittelstand

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      ReviewMusic
      Björk’s Orchestral tour — avant-garde electronica captivatingly reimagined

      The Icelandic singer’s voice has lost none of its power or strangeness over her long career

    • Saturday, 18 June, 2022
      Financial services
      Private equity chiefs fear waking up with ‘a terrible hangover’

      Financiers at SuperReturn conference face up to rising rates and a looming recession

    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      Art Basel 2022
      Gallerist Johann König: ‘The art market is progressive in its content, but conservative in its performance’

      From his gallery in a brutalist church, König has become one of the art world’s tastemakers

    • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
      Political espionage
      Security guard at British embassy in Berlin denies spying for Russia

      UK national faces 9 allegations as western governments step up expulsions of Russian diplomats over Ukraine invasion

    • Friday, 4 March, 2022
      Travel
      Floral designer Ruby Barber offers an insider’s guide to Berlin

      The parks, pastries and beautifully designed stores that keep the florist endlessly in love with her adopted home

    • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      CTM festival, Berlin — organs in crematoriums, drag queens in Kreuzberg

      The boundary-pushing art-music event reflects on how we’ve lacked contact during the pandemic

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      FT Globetrotter
      Many happy returns: the city spaces that bring joy to our correspondents and writers

      Be it New York subway trains, a Frankfurt bakery or a Tokyo karaoke joint, these are the spots that never fail to uplift the FT’s globetrotters

    • Monday, 3 January, 2022
      ReviewMusic
      Stand-in saves the day for Berlin Philharmonic’s new year concert

      Lahav Shani took over from Kirill Petrenko at short notice. Plus: Katja Kabanova at the Komische Oper

    • Monday, 20 December, 2021
      Russian politics
      Russia expels German diplomats in retaliation against Berlin

      Verdict after murder of Chechen rebel in 2019 raises tension between Kremlin and new Scholz government

    • Monday, 29 November, 2021
      ReviewMusic
      Sleepless at the Staatsoper Berlin — vocal performances close to perfection

      Peter Eötvös’s new opera features beautiful music for an irredeemable libretto

    • Saturday, 27 November, 2021
      Frederick Studemann
      Germany’s Covid conundrums — and goodbye to a Berlin radical

      As the FT’s literary editor bids farewell to an old friend, he considers life after Merkel — and the city’s changing tech scene

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