The 500th anniversary of the Reformation is an opportune time to compare and reflect. This series showcases documentaries and films from Germany and the former GDR about Martin Luther. Introductions ...

Theologian Martin Luther, composer Robert Schumann and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had all frequented Leipzig's iconic cellar restaurant over the centuries. But what makes it so special?

In 1502 he founded the University of Wittenberg where Martin Luther taught. During Luther's lifetime Wittenberg was the home and intellectual centre of the reformation movement of which the ...