A series of crime novels now adapted for TV imagines former German Chancellor Angela Merkel as a crime-solving detective. How might a former chancellor of Germany spend her retirement? The series ...

Germany’s first female chancellor served for 16 years from 2005 to 2021 Matt Webber is an experienced personal finance writer, researcher, and editor. He has published widely on personal finance, ...

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 ...

Two women have thoroughly dominated the politics of their respective northern European countries in living memory. Beyond their gender, Angela Merkel and Margaret Thatcher are often lumped together as ...

Numerous news stories have reported Merkel’s phobia of dogs stemming from a decades-old incident in which she was bitten, and Merkel herself appeared to criticize Putin for bringing the dog to the ...

German-born filmmaker Eva Weber gathers fresh interviews with figures like Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and Tony Blair to fill in Merkel's achievements in this doc premiering at Telluride. By Stephen ...

Editor's note: Angela Merkel steps down Wednesday after 16 years as Germany's chancellor. Earlier this fall, NPR caught up with some people who remembered her earliest days as a politician and asked ...