Some bars on Hamburg’s famed Reeperbahn were packed like in the days before the pandemic on the first weekend of new rules that allow nightlife locations to bar entry to the unvaccinated. Others chose not to make use of the option.
Which city is the best place to live? While Hamburg and Vienna frequently topped the charts in previous years, both cities lost significant ground in an annual ranking.
Indoor dining, tourism, sports: in some federal states, new relaxations are coming into force or will soon. Here's a look at some of the rule changes happening across Germany.
Hamburg is to allow outdoor dining in restaurants - without a negative coronavirus test - earlier than planned due to a significant drop in the Covid-19 incidence rate.
The coronavirus ‘emergency brake’ is set to be mandatory across Germany soon. But Hamburg has already had tougher Covid measures in place for weeks, including a curfew - and it appears to be working.
After 10 years in Hamburg, Meenu Gupta traded Indian citizenship for a German passport. She describes her reasons, and why her heart still belongs in India.
Spaces to queue up are already marked out on the way to the 64 miniature doctors' offices where thousands of people per day will be vaccinated against Covid-19 in Hamburg.
Barbara Brix admired her father, a doctor who passed on his love of history and literature. Until she learned years after his passing that he had been part of a Nazi death squad.
Despite Germany's reputation for being self-critical with its past, some German street names still pay homage to historical figures who left cruel and racist legacies.
Hamburg has a long and tumultuous history; the city has been raided, plundered, set aflame and bombed. Here are some maps to explain the city's fiery past, as well as where it is today.
Germany's far-right AfD party will return to Hamburg's state parliament by the skin of its teeth, official results showed, after exit polls from weekend elections suggested it would crash out.
Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU will choose a new leader at a special congress on April 25th, sources told AFP on Monday, as the party scrambles to prepare for the veteran German chancellor's departure.
Voters in German city-state Hamburg punished Chancellor Angela Merkel's crisis-racked conservatives and ejected the far right from parliament in a regional election Sunday, according to an exit poll.
Hamburg has the highest percentage of SPD voters in Germany, but is increasingly cut off from federal branches of the party. How will this shape the year's state elections on Sunday?
This year marks 60 years since the Beatles arrived in Hamburg, a city that shaped them for stardom. The Local met superfan and walking tour founder Stefanie Hempel who is hosting a festival dedicated to the Fab Four.
A classical orchestra in Germany aims to "make climate change audible" with a reworking of Antonio Vivaldi's famous violin concertos "The Four Seasons" using algorithms based on climate data.
German prosecutors said Monday they have
arrested a German-Tunisian woman, the widow of a German rapper turned Islamic
State fighter, over her alleged membership of the extremist group.
It's not easy to balance work with your personal life – but new research has found three German cities are particularly good at helping their residents get the best of both worlds.
