Ruth Bender was a correspondent based in Berlin who covered a broad range of topics from business over politics to social issues for The Wall Street Journal.

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact of the Wall on international relations Test your knowledge In the late 1950s, issues around Berlin sparked off one of the ...

Pigments used to paint murals on the Berlin Wall have been identified with the help of artificial intelligence in a bid to ...

I am writing this article from the German capital, Berlin, specifically at the iconic Television Tower in Alexanderplatz. It ...

Graffiti in Berlin has become one of the city’s most celebrated and impactful art forms. Over the past few decades, street ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...

sinister meaning when it’s being done in the “no-man’s land” on the Communist side of the Berlin Wall. Guards like this one killed at least 133 people trying to flee to the West during the ...

Starting on Friday the city of Berlin will be celebrating the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most momentous geopolitical events of the 20th century. Germany was ...

After the Berlin Wall's fall in 1989, more than one hundred international artists congregated here, painting murals that depicted the world's joyous and optimistic reactions to the end of the Cold ...