Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau has long been considered one of the pioneers of German Expressionism and Kammerspielfilm, having directed the iconic Nosferatu in 1922 and The Last Laugh in 1924. His stunning ...

This Missouri community is a pocket of old-world Europe in America’s heartland, best reached by one of Amtrak’s most understated routes ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A new exhibition focuses on the paintings of German painter Max Beckmann. Among them is Variety Show, an unsettling artwork depicting a chaotic cabaret scene – what does it mean, and did it foreshadow ...

Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed was released a century ago in 1926. This stop-motion classic makes her "a key figure in the history of cinema". Starting out in the film business isn't ...

The Nazis denounced jazz music as "degenerate art," despite its widespread popularity in Germany. As the Nazis clamped down on expression, groups of jazz-loving teenagers formed the Swing Youth to ...

TOWARDS the latter part of 1920, German investigators announced the discovery of a new drug, “Bayer 205,” which had a remarkable action on experimental trypanosomiasis in laboratory animals. It was ...

The history of the reparations tangle is outlined by the French Bureau of Information (in Manhattan) : 1) Versailles, 1919: Germans offered to pay 100 billion gold marks; Allies wanted 375 billion. 2) ...

The series celebrates early 20th-century German expressionism through plays by August Stramm, Oskar Kokoschka, Franz Kafka, Ernst Toller, Gottfried Benn, Lothar Schreyer, Walter Hasenclever, and Georg ...

Ron Howard’s “Eden” opens with a bold statement: “Fascism is spreading.” Based on a true story, “Eden” retraces what happened when a group of Europeans attempted to start anew on the remote island of ...