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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 3d

Another great read from Salzburg by @kateconnolly.bsky.social

German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · 4d

‘One rule for the rich’: the Salzburg mansion, the Porsche heir and the writer Stefan Zweig www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

‘One rule for the rich’: the Salzburg mansion, the Porsche heir and the writer Stefan Zweig

The car magnate, who is restoring the Jewish author’s former villa, has been given permission to dig out a 500-metre road leading to a garage, causing consternation in the city

www.theguardian.com

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German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · 4d

‘One rule for the rich’: the Salzburg mansion, the Porsche heir and the writer Stefan Zweig www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

‘One rule for the rich’: the Salzburg mansion, the Porsche heir and the writer Stefan Zweig

The car magnate, who is restoring the Jewish author’s former villa, has been given permission to dig out a 500-metre road leading to a garage, causing consternation in the city

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Connolly @kateconnolly.bsky.social · 6d

Extraordinary story of how a Historian used AI to help identify a Nazi soldier who murdered a Jewish man by @deborahcole.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

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Kim Willsher @kimwillsher.bsky.social · 7d

How long does a man live?

A man lives for as long as we carry him inside us,
For as long as we carry the harvest of his dreams
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Brian Patten obituary

One of the Liverpool poets, along with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri, who was a perceptive writer on love

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German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · 9d

'Kontakthof': the Pina Bausch classic being revived by its original cast – dancing with their younger selves www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s... via @theguardian.com

‘Trippy’: the Pina Bausch classic being revived by its original cast – dancing with their younger selves

Kontakthof is a 1978 show full of tenderness, violence and horror. Now, in a spectacular production, its first performers are bringing it back. But would Bausch have approved?

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Kate Connolly @kateconnolly.bsky.social · 9d

Devastating news for European rail travellers.

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts

Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

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Kate Connolly @kateconnolly.bsky.social · 12d

Thankyou Kim! X

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German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · 13d

25 September 1970: Erich Maria Remarque, the author of "Im Westen nichts Neues", dies in Locarno www.ndr.de/geschichte/k... via @ndr.de

"Im Westens nichts Neues" von Erich Maria Remarque: "Dachte immer, jeder Mensch sei gegen den Krieg"

Als Jugendlicher kämpft Erich Paul Remark im Ersten Weltkrieg an der Westfront. Mit seinem Anti-Kriegsroman "Im Westen nichts Neues", der am 29. Januar 1929 erscheint, wird er als Erich Maria Remarque...

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Kate Connolly @kateconnolly.bsky.social · 13d

Berlin-based remote-driving firm paves the way for car revolution on Europe‘s roads

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‘Raring to go:’ the German remote-driving firm that hopes to make private car ownership redundant

Europe has been slow to embrace robotaxis but Germany will allow remote-controlled rental cars from December

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German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · 13d

‘Raring to go:’ the German remote-driving firm that hopes to make private car ownership redundant www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

‘Raring to go:’ the German remote-driving firm that hopes to make private car ownership redundant

Europe has been slow to embrace robotaxis but Germany will allow remote-controlled rental cars from December

www.theguardian.com

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British-German Association (BGA) @britgerassoc.bsky.social · 15d

📢 #BGAEvent: 𝗥𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗵𝗹 - @theguardian.com journalist @kateconnolly.bsky.social in conversation with director 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗩𝗲𝗶𝗲𝗹

📅 Thu 25 Sep, 6.30pm

🗺️ On Zoom

👉 Join the BGA & register here: britishgermanassociation.org/event/riefen...

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Kate Connolly @kateconnolly.bsky.social · 15d

Young Finns are snubbing their mother tongue in favour of English books. One reason for popularity of English is that some find the sex scenes less embarrassing. “When you read in English you can detach yourself a little bit,” Miranda Bryant
is told.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Young Finns snub their mother tongue by reading in English

Publishers fear for the future of translated literature as sales of foreign language books rise

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German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · 28d

The Swiss natural cosmetics company Weleda allegedly supplied a skin cream to the Dachau concentration camp that went on to be used for human testing, a historian has claimed. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

Weleda allegedly supplied cream used on prisoners in Dachau by SS doctor

Study claims Swiss firm provided Nazi concentration camp with anti-frostbite product used in deadly tests in early 1940s

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Connolly @kateconnolly.bsky.social · 28d

Cosmerics company provided cream used on prisoners in Nazi concentratuon camp, study shows www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Weleda allegedly supplied cream used on prisoners in Dachau by SS doctor

Study claims Swiss firm provided Nazi concentration camp with anti-frostbite product used in deadly tests in early 1940s

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Connolly @kateconnolly.bsky.social · Sep 8

Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of a German apartment block turned out to be a Nacktschnecke - a naked snail (slug).

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of German apartments turns out to be a slug

People suspected teenagers playing ding dong ditch and called police, who found animal crawling on the door panel

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German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · Sep 6

Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever

Once considered progressive, then later derided, a new exhibition is exploring the developments’ place as part of a collective experience

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Connolly @kateconnolly.bsky.social · Sep 6

Impressions from Art Exhibition on East German prefab housing ‚Wohnkomplex’ opening today at the Minsk in Potsdam.

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt - (Construction Block, on a typewriter)
Christian Thoelke - Kaufhalle
Uwe Pfeifer - Night scene in Halle

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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Kate Connolly @kateconnolly.bsky.social · Sep 6

Excellent Art Exhibition on East Germany’s Prefab housing ‚Wohnkomplex‘ at the Minsk in Potsdam, opening today. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever

Once considered progressive, then later derided, a new exhibition is exploring the developments’ place as part of a collective experience

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Connolly @kateconnolly.bsky.social · Jul 26

‘It’s time for us to be louder’: Germany’s Pride parades face up to rise in attacks

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

‘It’s time for us to be louder’: Germany’s Pride parades face up to rise in attacks

Christopher Street Day event organisers urge vigilance amid increase in abuse from rightwing extremists

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Kate Connolly @kateconnolly.bsky.social · Jul 21

Anti-AfD protesters interrupt Alice Weidel interview live on German TV

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Anti-AfD protesters interrupt Alice Weidel interview live on German TV

Broadcaster to take precautions in future after whistling, shouting and music leave parts of exchange inaudible

www.theguardian.com

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German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · Jul 20

A steakhouse heir, Israeli spies and a cross-border abduction: the custody battle gripping Germany www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

A steakhouse heir, Israeli spies and a cross-border abduction: the custody battle gripping Germany

Christina Block is standing trial in Hamburg accused of kidnapping two of her own children from her ex-husband

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Connolly @kateconnolly.bsky.social · Jul 16

Germany’s 16 states locked in row over dates of school summer holidays

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Germany’s 16 states locked in row over dates of school summer holidays

Two southern states cling to past ruling that children are needed for harvest and claim the latest, most favoured slot

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Kate Connolly @kateconnolly.bsky.social · Jul 15

Hope springs eternal

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ukrainians hail Melania Trump for challenging husband’s faith in Putin

US first lady celebrated as ‘Agent Melania Trumpenko’ for noting Russian leader’s duplicity

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Connolly @kateconnolly.bsky.social · Jul 6

River Seine opens to swimmers for first time in over a century. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Paris reopens River Seine to public swimming after century-long ban

About a thousand swimmers a day will be allowed to use three bathing sites after €1.4bn clean-up programme

www.theguardian.com

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · Jun 24

A previously unknown novel by one of Europe’s most influential postwar journalists has been published in Germany after his children discovered the hand-written manuscript in his desk @kateconnolly.bsky.social‬ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Unknown novel by writer who charted Hitler’s rise becomes German bestseller

Sebastian Haffner’s love story set in final days of Weimar Republic published more than nine decades after it was written

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