Ida Dehmel, who was born exactly 150 years ago this year, founded today’s GEDOK, The Federation of Women Artists and Patrons of the Arts, in 1926. For seven years, she worked toward increasing public recognition of women artists.

After ...

From tourism to migration, from exile to persecution, travel shapes our personal stories. ‘Where are you from?’ is a challenging question for anyone who has a patchwork of origin stories.

When a traveller arrives at a new destination, exploration surely ...

After the Wall opened, structure and order in East Berlin fell apart and a power vacuum took their place. All of a sudden, in regards to the political situation, everything seemed possible – but also in terms of all the little ...

In November 1995, the Dayton Peace Agreement ended the bloody civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and manifested the nationalist war goals by dividing the country along ethnic and religious lines.

The first free elections cemented the balance of power ...