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(English) In Heaven, Underground: Weissensee’s Jewish Cemetery
Giulia Pines reviews Britta Wauer’s “Im Himmel, unter der Erde”, a new film about Weisensee's Jüdischer Friedhof... Nobody is neutral on cemeteries. Maybe you’re the kind of person who can’t resist visiting them all, browsing through the names and dates like titles on a bookshelf. Or perhaps you can’t pass one without holding your breath, remnants of childhood superstitions still fresh in your mind. Either way, those slabs of stone always seem to elicit a reaction, and [...]
(English) 14 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Köpenick
1. Old Town Köpenick, untouched by both Allied bombs and GDR development, retains a good deal of its eighteenth-century charm. It makes a pleasant spot for a wander, with plenty of spots for coffee and cake, ice cream, or a treat from the small market on the Schlossplatz. Mira’s Langos stand sells Hungarian sausage as well as the eponymous fried-dough treats. 2. The Rathaus Köpenick, an extensive, turreted redbrick Wilhelmine building in the Old Town, was the site of a famous heist in [...]
(English) English Theatre Berlin
Brid Arnstein chats to Günther Grosser, founder and Creative Director of the English Theatre Berlin In 1990 the English Theatre Berlin was founded under the name Friends of Italian Opera. Initially performing plays in many languages, from 1993 the theatre differentiated itself as Berlin’s only English-language theatre. Emerging from a new cultural atmosphere in the light of expatriation, the theatre’s aim is to explore the creative tendencies of international theatre. Housed in an [...]
(English) Hüttenpalast: Cabin Fever
Leisha Jones checks out one of the city's most innovative accommodation projects - the Hüttenpalast. Passing through the leafy courtyard out the back of an unassuming Neükolln café, the exterior of this1910 vacuum cleaner factory belies the whimsy that awaits behind its doors. Inside, the hushed air and low glow of fairy lights evoke the feeling of entering a clandestine clubhouse. You feel as though you have stumbled upon a place where you should talk in a whisper, or [...]
(English) Peeps At Great Cities: Berlin in 1911
Paul Sullivan delves into Edith Siepen's 1911 Berlin guidebook to see what's changed - and what hasn't - in the last 100 years. Gentrification is a hot topic in Berlin. The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 was an opportunity for an urban rebirth and the resultant fast-changing environment is not to everyone's tastes. But for better or worse change is a natural aspect of human nature; as a wise man once put it: "Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine." To get a little [...]
(English) Marco Clausen: Berlin’s Urban Gardener
Madeline Maher chats to Marco Clausen, co-founder of Nomadisch Grün and the Prinzessinnengarten... Nomadisch Grün (Nomadic Green) launched Prinzessinnengärten (Princess gardens) as a pilot project in the summer of 2009 at Moritzplatz in Berlin Kreuzberg, a site which had been a wasteland for over half a century. Along with friends, fans, activists and neighbours, the group cleared away rubbish, built transportable organic vegetable plots and reaped the first fruits of their [...]
(English) Hohenschönhausen: In Pictures
Stefanie Rothenhöfe chats to Berlin photographer Philipp Lohöfener about his work at Hohenschönhausen, Berlin's Stasi prison memorial. Philipp Lohöfener was born in 1974 in Bielefeld, Germany. He studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld, Germany from 1998 till 2006. He has been living and working in Berlin, Germany since 2001. Over the last few years, Lohöfener’s work has focused on depicting the resonant presence in seemingly deserted [...]
(English) Dustin O’Halloran, Pianist & Composer
Wyndham Wallace shoots the breeze with Berlin-based pianist and composer Dustin O'Halloran... If you’ve seen Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, you may already be familiar with Berlin-based Dustin O’Halloran’s exquisite solo piano music: the American contributed a number of pieces to the film’s soundtrack, including the haunting ‘Opus 23’. A member of the band Devics, who were signed to Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde’s Bella Union Records label, he has released two albums of [...]
(English) On the Osloer Strasse
Paul Scraton gives an ex-pat perspective of his neighbourhood of choice: Wedding... I "]It is just past midnight on the Osloer Strasse. I emerge from the U-Bahn station onto the wide, dark boulevard. There are not so many people about. At the corner of Drontheimer Strasse a couple of drunks stagger out from their smoke-filled corner kneipe, bellies full of gassy pilsner and cheap shots of korn. The lights in the kebab stand across the street burn brightly but there are no customers. A [...]
(English) A Tour Of r(Ostkreuz)
Sanna Akehurst takes a tour around one of her favourite Berlin train stations - Ostkreuz - as it finally undergoes renovations. "]So far as I know, Berlin is streets ahead in terms of exploiting something called Construction Tourism. The first well-known example is the elevated box that showed visitors what Potsdamer Platz was going to look like. The in-progress new international airport (BER Airport Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt) has a visitor's tower and various tours to admire its [...]
