Maverick German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 15-hour TV serial was showing at Edinburgh and I managed to sit through the whole thing. Most of the exciting films at this year's Edinburgh ...

In a radical departure, the latest cinema adaptation of Alfred Döblin's great Weimar-era novel updates the story with an African refugee as the protagonist. In Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin ...

Alfred Doblin’s 1929 novel ’Berlin Alexanderplatz’ was a seminal work that cast its lot in with the German underclass just when the fast-growing Nazi party was elaborating the myth of the master race.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the shadow of the Soviet-era Fernsehturm, or television tower, Alexanderplatz is one of Berlin’s less celebrated ...