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    • 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

    • Friday, 22 October, 2021
      European prime property
      In Berlin 85% of people rent their homes — and prices are spiralling

      The end of a rental cap and a shortage of stock are making the German capital unaffordable for many

    • Monday, 4 October, 2021
      Gideon Rachman
      Why Germany is the west’s sanest country

      Lessons learnt from its 20th century history have helped it to avoid the perils of populism

    • Monday, 27 September, 2021
      Berlin voters back call for property expropriation

      Referendum results reflect frustration in German capital over speculation and skyrocketing rents

    • Friday, 17 September, 2021
      Art Basel 2021
      ‘I was always in love with Asian art’ — collector Désiré Feuerle

      The German art-lover discusses his collection of ancient sculpture and contemporary art housed in a wartime bunker

    • Saturday, 14 August, 2021
      Mark Galeotti
      The Berlin spy case reminds us that real espionage is banal and human

      Technological tools cannot replicate the creativity and observation skills of people

    • Friday, 13 August, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Berlin’s referendum and the housing costs fury

      Expropriation would not solve underlying problems with the market

    • Tuesday, 10 August, 2021
      FT SeriesGlobal house prices: Raising the roof
      ‘My flat is now a commodity’: Berlin to vote on seizing rental properties

      FT Series: Bid to confiscate apartments from publicly listed landlords could set precedent for other cities with high rents

    • Friday, 28 May, 2021
      News in-depthCoronavirus economic impact
      ‘We need people’: Berlin’s grand reopening hit by labour shortages

      Lack of hospitality staff threatens to hold back expected economic rebound as Covid restrictions ease

    • Wednesday, 19 May, 2021
      HTSI
      The 50 greatest food stores in the world

      Where to find the best produce on the planet, from classic New York delis and Indian spice emporiums to German sausage shops

    • Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
      Delivery Hero
      Delivery Hero to return to Germany as food delivery fight intensifies

      Relaunch comes two years after group sold operations in its home country to Just Eat Takeaway.com

    • Friday, 23 April, 2021
      Life & Arts
      Does Berlin need a sex slave statue?

      The controversy over a sculpture depicting a ‘comfort woman’ highlights the sensitivities over how to memorialise contested history

    • Thursday, 15 April, 2021
      Germany
      Germany’s highest court strikes down Berlin rent freeze

      Ruling comes after year-long battle that pitched landlords and estate agents against campaigners

    • Sunday, 21 March, 2021
      Germany
      Berlin theatres stage comeback with Covid-compliant initiative

      Venues pilot test-based system that could pave way for broader reopening of cultural institutions

    • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
      Germany
      Berlin museum reignites debate over Germany’s colonial past

      Inauguration of €644m Humboldt Forum amid row about provenance of treasures on display

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