Kate Brady

Berlin

German politics and current affairs

Education: University of Leeds, UK, BA in German and French; News Associates School of Journalism, Manchester, UK, NCTJ Multimedia Journalism Diploma

Kate Brady is a researcher and reporter based in The Washington Post's Berlin bureau. Originally from the United Kingdom, she has spent the best part of a decade reporting from all corners of Germany. She began her career at Germany's international broadcaster Deutsche Welle and later freelanced for numerous German and English-language media outlets, including The Washington Post, BBC, Euronews and RTÉ.
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50 years later, German Stasi agent is convicted of murder, gets 10 years

The trial, largely based on historical documents and fading memories, underlined the difficulties Germany faces in bringing ex-East German officials to justice.

October 14, 2024
Martin Naumann covers his face in court before a verdict is announced in the former Stasi officer’s murder trial. (Sebastian Gollnow/DPA)

Sausage slices and love notes: The improvised bookmarks librarians find

The Vienna central library has a new exhibition drawn from its collection of 8,000 items found over the past 20 years.

October 2, 2024
A display of some of the improvised bookmarks found in books returned to Vienna's central library, the Hauptbuecherei.

Austrian far right set to win national election, in postwar first

Austria’s Freedom Party leads in the vote count, but may not be able to find coalition partners to form a government under provocative leader Herbert Kickl.

September 29, 2024
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, left, head of the Austrian People's Party, shakes hands with right-wing Freedom Party candidate Herbert Kickl after the first exit polls came out Sunday in Austria's general elections.

Scholz dodges disaster with narrow SPD win over far right in German state

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s SPD narrowly beat the far-right Alternative for Germany in the Brandenburg election, seen as a referendum on his leadership.

September 23, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses the General Assembly Hall at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on Sunday. The election in Brandenburg was widely seen as a referendum of him.

    Death toll rises in European floods; more severe weather expected

    At least 19 people have died in floods in Central Europe, including in Romania, Poland, Austria and the Czech Republic, according to officials.

    September 17, 2024
    A woman hugs her relative after being evacuated from her flooded house in Jesenik, Czech Republic, on Sunday.

    Here’s why Central Europe has had disastrous flooding and torrential rain

    The storm that hit central Europe — which unleashed several months’ worth of rain in just a few days — was spawned by a rare combination of meteorological factors.

    September 16, 2024
    Men use brooms to remove floodwater and mud from a house after heavy rain triggered flooding in Cuza Voda, Romania, on Sunday.

    Trump debate claims about German energy policy are wrong, says Berlin

    “We are shutting down — not building — coal and nuclear plants,” Germany’s Foreign Ministry said on social media in response to Trump’s debate comments.

    September 11, 2024
    A worker assembles an array of solar panels on the Cottbuser Ostsee lake in eastern Germany on Aug. 29.

    German police fatally shoot gunman near Israeli Consulate in Munich

    The attacker fired several shots near the consulate and was killed by police. The incident occurred on the anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.

    September 6, 2024

    German leader urges parties to boycott far right after its election wins

    The far-right AfD came in first in state elections in Thuringia and a close second in Saxony, so building a coalition government without it will be difficult.

    September 2, 2024
    People light pyrotechnics during a rally in Dresden, Germany, on Sunday in a protest against the growth of right-wing parties in state elections in Saxony.

    Far right set to win in a German state for the first time since WWII

    Deemed an extremist organization by domestic intelligence in three German states, the AfD has overcome deep-seated taboos over nationalist politics in Germany.

    September 1, 2024
    Björn Höcke, the regional leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) in Thuringia, speaks to journalists in Erfurt, Germany, on Sunday.