—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of feeling that ...

Summer's in full swing. The birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing and the flowers are in full bloom. But does the promise of sunny days fill you with delight or foreboding? These German poems ...

Ian McMillan explores German poetry after the fall of the Berlin Wall – with two of Germany's most celebrated and groundbreaking poets, Durs Grünbein and Nora Gomringer. Show more Ian McMillan ...

Like a few months' older "Five Songs Op. 13", so do the "Twelve Songs Op. 17" reflect Szymanowski's interest in Modernist German poetry. The titles themselves are indicative of the topics: love, the ...

German police are providing protection for the controversial comedian Jan Boehmermann after he performed a crude poem criticizing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on German TV. Investigators are ...

A NORTH-East student has won a foreign language poetry contest. The Institute of Modern Languages Research, the British Museum and the German Academic Exchange Service challenged aspiring poets to ...

BERLIN — Late-night comedy sketches featuring a German song and a follow-up poem making fun of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have created a diplomatic rift, and left German Chancellor Angela ...

Another international controversy is building between Germany and Turkey over, of all things, a poem. Last month on German TV, the comedian Jan Boehmermann performed a crude poem mocking Turkey's ...