German Chancellor Angela Merkel stands in front of her election-campaign tour bus before a meeting in Berlin on September 16, 2013. Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters The world's most powerful woman earned ...

Angela Merkel has been written off many times in her career – by the politician’s rivals, her own party members and, yes, the press. It’s difficult to imagine today, as Germany’s widely ...

Angela Merkel (born Angela Dorothea Kasner on July 17, 1954) was chancellor of Germany from 2005 until 2021. She was the second-longest-serving chancellor in German history, and was the first ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a pivotal figure during the Greek debt crisis, offered candid reflections on that ...

After a childhood behind the Iron Curtain, Angela Merkel served as Chancellor of a united Germany for 16 years, becoming the most powerful woman in the world while dealing with its most powerful ...

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with author Kati Marton about her new biography of Angela Merkel, The Chancellor, and what her departure will mean for Germany and the world.

Angela Merkel, the most powerful woman in the world, is no friend of her biographers. It’s not only that the groundbreaking German chancellor routinely refuses to be interviewed. Merkel ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is not known for being a passionate speaker, touting big ideas or earnest promises. Her personality type would not make her a great candidate for, say, president of ...

The former German Chancellor believes one-time protégé Merkel "has no idea" about European politics, a controversial new biography reveals ...

Freedom. Memories 1954-2021, Angela Merkel's autobiography, will be released worldwide on November 26. It details her dealings with foreign leaders throughout her 16 years as Germany's chancellor ...

Angela Merkel, age 3, in 1957. Screen grab Angela Dorothea Kasner was born to Herlind Kasner, an English and Latin teacher, and Horst Kasner, a theologian and Lutheran minister.