Weinberger's best-known works include:
* "The East German Intelligentsia: Between State and Civil Society" (1994)
* "The Cold War: A Social and Cultural History" (2002)
* "The GDR: History, Politics and Culture" (2004)
* "Berlin: A Capital Between History and Culture" (2007)
* "The New Germany: A Society in Transformation" (2011)
Weinberger's work has been praised for its scholarly rigor and its ability to make complex historical issues accessible to a wider audience. He has been awarded numerous prizes for his work, including the German History Prize in 2002 and the Ernst Bloch Prize in 2011.
Weinberger is currently a professor of history and cultural studies at the University of Potsdam in Germany. He continues to write and lecture extensively on the history of the 20th century and contemporary German society.