Katharina Thalbach is one of the few Germans to hold the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. This highest award from the French Ministry of Culture was bestowed on the actress and director in 2019. This ...

Little is known about how Germany’s former Chancellor Angela Merkel is spending her retirement, and that seems to be the way she likes it. Thanks to a German crime fiction series adapted for ...

How might a former chancellor of Germany spend her retirement? The series "Miss Merkel" imagines she'd become a small-town amateur sleuth, kind of like "Agatha Christie's Miss Marple." Esme Nicholson ...

German actress Anna Thalbach was born into an acting dynasty: her mother, Katharina Thalbach, is a respected actress and director; her father, Thomas Brasch, was a well-known poet, playwright and ...