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Jessica Kiang Does life, once you’ve lived it for a little while, always have to get in the way of love? The simple question posed by German director Lisa Bierwith’s sedate but absorbing class- and culture-clash mid-life romance “Le Prince,” is one that can’t be answered simply, in grand declaratives or sweeping generalizations. So it feels right that this sensitively put-together relationship drama, produced by Maren Ade’s Komplizen Films, deals in neither.

Guy Lodge Film CriticEveryone keeps asking average German 30-somethings Michael and Dina when they’re going to get married, long after they’ve moved in together, and still after they have a child. Their non-answer is always the same: They’ve been thinking about it; they’ll get around to it; there just hasn’t been time.

Politico, the 15-year-old digital media company covering politics and policy, is being sold to German publishing giant Axel Springer.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorGerman publishing group Axel Springer announced a deal to acquire Politico, the 15-year-old digital political news outlet.The price of the acquisition wasn’t disclosed. Axel Springer’s deal for Politico includes the remaining 50% share of the companies’ current joint venture Politico Europe, as well as the tech news website Protocol.

BERLIN -- A new show examining how some of the Nazis' favorite visual artists were able to successfully continue their work in postwar Germany is set to open in Berlin this week.“Divinely Gifted. National Socialism's favored artists in the Federal Republic” opens Friday at the German Historical Museum.

Wellerman Sea Shanty hitmaker Nathan Evans forgot the words to his number one song on German TV. Ever the pro, Nathan kept going as he tried to remember the lines of his viral TikTok hit on German telly show FernseheGarten.

A relative of an editor from German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle was shot dead by the Taliban in Afghanistan in what the network is calling a targeted attack.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentTaliban fighters looking to exact revenge against journalists affiliated with Western media on Thursday shot dead the relative of an Afghan journalist for German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) who had left the country.

Kaley Cuoco has some searing thoughts about the German coach who cruelly punched a horse at the Tokyo Olympics.

Kaley Cuoco ripped a German modern pentathlon coach who came under fire for punching a horse at the Tokyo Olympics. Cuoco, who is married to equestrian Karl Cook and rides horses herself, sounded off in an Instagram Story on Friday, nearly a week after Germany's team coach Kim Raisner was disqualified from the Games for striking Saint Boy, ridden by Germany’s Annika Schleu, with her fist during the Women’s Modern Pentathlon competition.

Simone Biles is protecting herself from any kind of infection after getting bit by a dog.

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Anna Marie de la Fuente Koch Media has acquired German and Italian VOD rights to Russian filmmaker Anna Zaytseva’s feature debut “#Blue_Whale” ahead of its Aug. 17 world premiere at the 25th Fantasia Int’l Film Festival.“Searching” and “Profile” creator and Screenlife format pioneer TimurBekmambetov is a co-producer of “#Blue_Whale.”The cautionary tale is inspired by a news story Zaytseva came upon years ago which was later presented to her as a treatment.