Lost for years, the music of 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' author’s mother is heard again. Descendants of Julia Kerr gather for a recital at Einstein’s summer house near Berlin where the revived opera was set. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

So sad to hear of the death of David Hockney. Gentle man, worshipper of nature, generously giving everyone the feeling they could share in his artistic genius. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Excellent, uplifting Interview with Volodymyr Zelenskyy by colleagues @lukeharding1968 & @pippacrearer during his visit to London in today’s @guardian www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

‘Görli is our garden’: Berliners fight to stop their mayor locking the Görlitzer Park at night www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

“Görli is our garden”. Berliners fight to stop mayor locking their park at night www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Last chance this weekend to see Barberini gallery in Potsdam’s excellent exhibition on Max Liebermann and German impressionism. My personal favourites: Lesser Ury’s night time Berlin and Franz Skabina’s Berlin Christmas scene www.museum-barberini.de/de/ausstellu...

So looking forward to reading @annettedittert.bsky.social’s boatside insight into my own Heimat www.spiegel.de/reise/europa...

RIP Albrecht Weinberg, Holocaust survivor and stalwart for righting historical wrongs, who has died aged 101. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

RIP Georg Baselitz. Fond memories of interviewing (even if he was very rude about female artists). www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

UK schoolboys’ fatal hike is remembered in Black Forest 90 years on. Relatives of London pupils and German villagers mark the anniversary of ‘an English misfortune’ that the Nazis turned into a propaganda coup. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

Thankyou @oldstpublishing.bsky.social for this. Looking forward to reading it. Great title. Fascinating and timely topic. Lovely cover.

Whale stranded in Baltic will die unless helped to move soon, say experts. German rescue teams have been trying to ease the humpback’s path back into deeper waters without success. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

Every woman in British journalism today pays a debt of gratitude to Dame Jenni Murray. An unswerving force, never cowed by the pressures of male editorial domination. No doubt in her mind exactly who she spoke for, and to. An inspiration. Thank you. Rest in power.

THE GUARDIAN: ‘‘Negatives are photographic truths’: the collector who fled Russia with a haul of second world war images www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

Excited to have received Katya Hoyer’s latest book in this morning’s post.

This is excellent and available on BBC iPlayer www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

The beautiful, harrowing photography of Ukrainian Julia Kochetova, unwitting war journalist, capturing the humanity and resilience of her countryfolk since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, by Charlotte Higgins www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Following a conversation about potatoes with @kateconnolly.bsky.social I watched "An Audience with Victoria Wood" again. I'd forgotten how funny it is, such sharp wit. Perfect English humour. Almost 40 years old and it hasn't aged one bit. Just superb youtu.be/HNkVBwKCQcw?...

Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes across Berlin www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

Spudulike? (Or spud-oo-lickay, as the late great Victoria Wood would have it) then pop to a potato hotspot in Berlin and take home, for free, a share of the recent bumper harvest. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Is anyone who took part in the Potato Action 4000-Tonnen in Berlin and is now wading through lashings of mashed potato and other culinary delights prepared to talk about it with me for The Guardian? Pls send me a DM. Vielen Dank!

Gibt es hier jemanden, der an der Kartoffelaktion 4000-Tonnen in Berlin teilgenommen hat und sich nun durch Unmengen von Kartoffelpüree und anderen kulinarischen Köstlichkeiten kämpft und bereit ist, mit mir für The Guardian darüber zu sprechen? DM bitte! Vielen Dank.

‘I was simply luckier’: Holocaust survivors warn against forgetting Nazi atrocities. People urged to stand up against populism and antisemitism as the world marks International Holocaust Memorial Day. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

Holocaust survivors warn against forgetting on the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘I felt numb’: German bank heist victims devastated after thieves ransack 3,000 deposit boxes. A Gelsenkirchen savings bank was raided over Christmas by criminals who used a huge drill to access the vault www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

15 January 1919: Rosa Luxemburg was murdered in Berlin. Listen to a BBC 'In Our Time' radio programme about her life. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Enjoying Mary Anne Hobbs’ David Bowie Low album special. Marking 10 years since his death. Lots of Berlin anecdotes. On now! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Not surprisingly, after the recent Berlin Blackout (longest since WW2), I keep getting sent ads for wind-up radios. Certainly beats the unending notices for stair lifts.

Absolutely sensational find in Norfolk - the most complete carnyx or Iron Age battle trumpet ever discovered, anywhere. Buried in the first century AD in the territory of the Iceni… www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Rebel nuns who busted out of Austrian care home win reprieve – for now www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... ‘No topic is too difficult’: children’s series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy

Digitised official records of Nuremberg trials made available online www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

AfD hails US ban on European leftwing groups as historians fear crackdown on anti-fascists www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Hooray! Best story of the day. X www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Saddened to hear of the death of Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg, who we interviewed in 2024. “I feel my revenge on the Nazis is the building of our lovely family.” RIP Manfred. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Saddened to hear of the death of Manfred Goldberg, Holocaust survivor, who we interviewed in 2024. “I feel my revenge on the Nazis is the building of our lovely family“. RIP Manfred. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

We live in hope… www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

German retirees who continue working are set to earn €2000 a month tax free www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned’ (= one of the best headlines of the year so far) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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

‘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

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...

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...

'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

Devastating news for European rail travellers. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

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

Berlin-based remote-driving firm paves the way for car revolution on Europe‘s roads www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘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