Can we compare our current political moment to the tumultuous 1930s?

C/O Berlin, Germany

On the counter-cultural icon Hubert Fichte, founder of German-language Pop literature

What's behind the outcry againt Chris Dercon's appointment at the Volksbühne? A roundtable with theatre critics Eva Behrendt and Tobi Müller

Various locations, Berlin, Germany

A conversation with theatre director Milo Rau about responsibility, empathy and 'meta-slavery'

The editor of frieze d/e selects his picks of the current shows in the city

A changing map of the city’s gallery scene

What the proposed closure of Museum Morsbroich tells us about cultural debate in Germany

On art and therapy

A fire last weekend may spell the end for this legendary Hamburg venue

A new book by Navid Kermani tracing a migration route into Europe but in reverse

What Milo Rau’s new play tells us about our current ‘humanitarian’ European identity

Vienna

Form and functionlessness

Tanya Leighton Berlin

The musical pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius on his search for inner harmony

A look back at the extraordinary work of Michael Buthe

Public art in Germany has a long and fraught history. What is its place today?

56. Biennale di Venezia