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Hannes Stein, born in Munich, Germany, in 1965, works as a cultural and political correspondent for Die Welt. He has published two novels and his third, Der Weltreporter (The World Reporter), will be published this winter by Galiani Berlin.
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Tribute
Not Germany’s Bob Dylan—He's Germany’s Wolf Biermann
Wolf Biermann, eighty-five today, outlasted Nazism and then communism. Happy birthday.
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The Wall and I
Author Hannes Stein made it into East Berlin one day—almost.
The Contender
Annalena Baerbock and the German Green party might just be ready to take the reins in September.
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Meatballs and Millionaires
Dearest AOC, fly with me to Sweden. A lovely place, but you might not want to live there.