The Berlin film festival is set to hand out its awards on Saturday, with a selection of 19 films and documentaries competing for the top Golden Bear prize.

A Syrian man arrested after a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial that wounded a Spanish man had been harbouring a “plan to kill Jews”, police and prosecutors said Saturday.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday stressed his support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and defended Germany’s commitment to free speech in a pushback against recent broadsides from the Trump administration.

German politicians made a final scramble for votes Saturday on the eve of key elections in which conservatives hope to win despite the dramatic rise of the far right targeting a record score.

Germany’s rocky path towards Sunday’s early elections began when the outgoing coalition government collapsed on November 6, the very day Donald Trump won re-election to the White House.

From election fever with poll surprises to politicians on TikTok and the push to highlight the positive contributions of immigrants, here’s what we’re talking about at The Local this week.

Stories of a pre-election state of emergency, police escorts for toddlers and forged ballot papers — a blizzard of online disinformation has targeted German voters ahead of Sunday’s election.

German police said Friday they had arrested a male suspect over a stabbing that badly wounded a 30-year-old Spanish man at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial near the US embassy.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is set to make major gains in Sunday’s crucial election, and while it’s leader holds typical nationalist and anti-foreigner views, her story is far from that of a quintessential extremist.

Germany’s far-left Die Linke party has enjoyed a late poll surge ahead of Sunday’s elections, boosted by a spirited anti-fascist speech by its new rising star that quickly went viral.