Nostalgia for the East — or ostalgie, a portmanteau combining the words ost (‘east’) and nostalgie (‘nostalgia’) — has taken hold in contemporary, unified Germany. A symbol of the former East Germany, ...

For more than three years, German photographer Simon Menner has immersed himself in the invasive culture of the Stasi, the security service that snooped on East Germans for 40 years. Officially known ...

Helbig and Sand plan on expanding their East German hotel project with a series of eight East German-style vacation apartments near the Ostel. Ostel employee Liliana Lehmann, 25, whose early childhood ...