Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It was while sitting on our balcony at Schloss Elmau, deep in the Bavarian Alps, gazing at the lengthening ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Schloss Elmau kids club Linn, another parent observing from the back of the "edutainment workshop" at Schloss Elmau, leaned ...

I was at Schloss Elmau, Bavaria’s A-1 hotel and spa. It sits alongside a 200-million-year-old rock. Long before our own integration problems, Earth’s European plate banged into Africa’s tectonic plate ...

Imagine your ideal vacation. Raise that a notch and see what you come up with. That might just be close to the leisure, health and cultural experience to be had over at Schloss Elmau. Having recently ...

One of the pools with a view at Schloss Elmau. Photo courtesy of Schloss Elmau. You might not expect, should you find yourself in a peaceful German valley at the foothills of the Alps, to lie on ...

Reporting from Elmau, Germany — When people who have been to Schloss Elmau meet, words tend to fail them. But they exchange a certain look that says it all. The hotel nests in the foothills of the ...

‘You won’t find anywhere like Schloss Elmau,’ Dietmar Mueller-Elmau tells me over a flute of crisp champagne on one of the retreat’s (many) terraces. Granted, this is probably something all hotel ...

In 1916, as war burned across the world, an unconventional and charismatic German theologian named Dr Johannes Müller built a castle in the middle of the Bavarian Alps, surrounded by fairytale forests ...

It is telling that when Dietmar Mueller-Elmau, the CEO and owner of the Bavarian Alpine resort Schloss Elmau, had to pick a name for the hotel-operations software he was developing back in the day ...