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Deborah Cole

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Berlin correspondent, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/profile/deborah-cole deborah.cole(at)theguardian.com

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Deborah Cole@deborahcole.bsky.social · yesterday

Germany remains an EU outlier in creating high obstacles to a fresh start for former cancer patients. “You have the right [in other countries] to make plans again as normal: to buy a house, to start a family. Other EU countries have long since sorted this out.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Cancer survivors need protection from future discrimination, say German politicians

Campaigners say people who have had cancer face discrimination in areas including bank loans, adoption of children and insurance

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German at Portsmouth@germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · 3d ago

'A symbol of resistance’: the fight to save a treehouse built on no man’s land next to the Berlin Wall www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... via @theguardian.com @deborahcole.bsky.social

‘A symbol of resistance’: the fight to save treehouse built on no man’s land next to Berlin Wall

Supporters fear structure could be torn down as safety hazard and want it to become memorial to postwar foreign labourers in honour of its Turkish creator

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Deborah Cole@deborahcole.bsky.social · last wk.

Peter Bradshaw took the time to big up SOLO SUNNY, "a kind of B-side to Bob Fosse’s Cabaret" by "the second most politically compromised German film-maker in history" www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Solo Sunny review – a rueful East German gem of ambition, loneliness and faded dreams

Konrad Wolf’s 1980 drama follows a singer trying to escape the drab compromises of GDR life, capturing the melancholy of thwarted ambition with warmth and wit

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Austria opens police station at Hitler birthplace to deter neo-Nazi tourists

Austria opens police station at Hitler birthplace to deter neo-Nazi tourists

Police unit in Braunau am Inn will tackle narcotics trafficking and help prevent people visiting it as pilgrimage site Austria has opened a police station in the birthplace of Adolf Hitler in an attempt to “neutralise” its toxic legacy, after years of debate over how to stop neo-Nazis visiting it as a pilgrimage site. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in a rented flat of the building in the town centre of Braunau am Inn and spent the first weeks of his life there. Continue reading...

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Deborah Cole@deborahcole.bsky.social · 3w ago

On the 5th anniversary of Germany's devastating floods in the Ahr valley, returning to this piece about one couple's astounding grace in their loss & criticism ofthe country's future preparedness for climate-related disasters www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

How a mother turned her drowned daughter’s passion into a thriving patisserie

Hamburg shop set up in tribute to aspiring pastry chef becomes ‘happy’ pilgrimage site for grieving parents

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Deborah Cole@deborahcole.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The true miracle of Switzerland’s long economic success is that it avoided the 'Buddenbrooks trap'. In Mann’s novel, successive generations of a prosperous family grow more comfortable, self-focused & emotionally fragile, losing the pragmatism that created their fortune." @josephdeweck.bsky.social

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Is Switzerland tired of prosperity? I can think of no other reason for our next foolish referendum | Joseph de Weck

Deborah Cole@deborahcole.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tune in to our flagship podcast as we discuss the capture and trial of Germany's most-wanted woman after 30 years mainly hiding in plain sight, and how the country sees the bloody and divisive legacy of the Red Army Faction/Baader-Meinhof Gang www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

The jailing of Germany’s most wanted woman – podcast

Dancer, dog owner, bank robber. Germany’s most-wanted woman, Daniela Klette, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after decades on the run. Deborah Cole and Jason Burke report

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Deborah Cole@deborahcole.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The archive now comprises more than 60,000 love letters, with more arriving by the day, almost all donated from private collections. Each speaks to the intimate life of a couple but also holds keys to understanding eras of history and the evolution of language www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Sixty thousand love letters and counting: volunteers help sift through vast German trove of devotion

Team is working to digitise archive of correspondence donated by public, charting relationships, social history and evolution of language

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Deborah Cole@deborahcole.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Treat yourself this Monday morning to the gorgeously mundane pictures from the funeral Martin Parr's loved ones put together www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Cupcakes, bunting and a bus stuck in the mud: the funeral of Martin Parr – in pictures

The photographer loved to record the small details of life, so it was only fitting that his family should organise a send-off inspired by his work. ‘Funerals can be really beautiful,’ says the person ...

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Deborah Cole@deborahcole.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Concerned that the creeping death of the stores is also fuelling the rural disaffection that has driven many voters to political extremes, governments in several regions have stepped in with some 21st-century innovation. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Can hybrid village stores answer rural Germany’s ‘cry for help’ and fend off far right?

Retail innovation, where people can shop alone after staff have gone, is helping vital community hubs survive

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo ago

What happened to the ‘little refugee girl’?: the 102-year-old Holocaust survivor whose story started outside my doorstep

What happened to the ‘little refugee girl’?: the 102-year-old Holocaust survivor whose story started outside my doorstep

For years, I polished the brass plaques in front of my apartment dedicated to a Jewish mother and daughter who were murdered by the Nazis. Then a message out of the blue connected me to a surviving child …

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Deborah Cole@deborahcole.bsky.social · 3mo ago

So pleased to see our beloved Sonja looking like a queen in the pages of The Guardian’s Saturday magazine. She’ll be 103 next month. Read here about her remarkable resilience & joy, and our unlikely connection across the world: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

What happened to the ‘little refugee girl’?: the 102-year-old Holocaust survivor whose story started outside my doorstep

For years, I polished the brass plaques in front of my apartment dedicated to a Jewish mother and daughter who were murdered by the Nazis. Then a message out of the blue connected me to a surviving ch...

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Deborah Cole@deborahcole.bsky.social · 3mo ago

As someone who has come to love Germany & had my life enormously enriched by living here, I take no pleasure in pointing out the current sobering state of affairs. But there’s still time to pull things around: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

‘Stuck in the mud’: one year on, Friedrich Merz struggles to find his footing

Just 19% of Germans approve of the chancellor’s leadership – with some of his comments causing offence amid spats with the White House

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Deborah Cole@deborahcole.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Trump administration's decision to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany will upend many lives. We talked to people in the Rhineland who have seen German-American cooperation as a force for good, and a way of life www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

‘We love our Americans’: the German town rocked by Trump’s plan to withdraw US troops

American soldiers have been part of life in Landstuhl since 1945, giving the area a unique US-German identity

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