The Euro crisis has the EU firmly in its grip, after the reactor accident in Fukushima Germany is phasing out nuclear power, and 19-year-old Lena Meyer-Landrut surprisingly wins the ESC.

The "GroKo" is coming - and becomes the word of the year 2013, the newly founded AfD narrowly misses entering the Bundestag and Helene Fischer helps German Schlager music make a comeback.

Summer fairytale 2014 the German team wins the World Cup title, Germany welcomes refugees, and the terrorist attack on the Berlin Christmas market causes horror.

Donald Trump becomes President of the USA, women worldwide report sexual assaults under the hashtag #MeToo, and Germany becomes increasingly digital.