In 1981, a radical concert was held at Berlin’s Tempodrom called “Geniale Dilletanten” (Brilliant Dilettantes). The deliberately misspelled title of the show became a catch-all phrase for an ...

Lasting from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) could have been a mere blip in music history. However, the New German Wave genre – which drew inspiration from British punk and ...

It was the decade of young rebels, from the beginnings of the environmentalist movement in Germany to peace demonstrations in the East and West. A study shows: Germans remember the 1980s with a deep ...

When most people think of late 2000s and early 2010s chillwave and synthwave music, one often thinks of artists like Washed Out, Toro y Moi, and Neon Indian. If you were a young adult (like me) at the ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, German companies and laboratories churned out futuristic technologies, from novel types of nuclear reactors to the world's first magnetic-levitation train. In the early 1980s, ...

THE 5p piece was the most prized possession of the impoverished Irishman in 1980s West Germany. There wasn’t a Paddy worth his salt who didn’t bring a bulging bag of five pence coins with him when he ...