— -- For nearly half a century the tallest building in Berlin has been a relic of its Soviet past. The Park Inn, a slender glass and concrete hotel in Alexanderplatz, was erected in the late 1960 ...

When Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 14-part miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz aired on German public television in 1980, audiences complained they couldn't see anything in its murky nocturnal scenes. And ...

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 ...

Alfred Döblin’s 1929 masterpiece “Berlin Alexanderplatz” opens as Franz Biberkopf is released from prison, having served four years for killing his girlfriend. Determined to make an honest living, he ...