Posts Tagged ‘Literature’
(English) Berlin And The Artist [1910]
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An extract from Robert Walser’s 1910 short story, Berlin And The Artist... A city like Berlin is an ill-mannered, impertinent, intelligent scoundrel, constantly affirming the things that suit him and tossing aside everything he tires of. Here in the big city you can definitely feel the waves of intellect washing over the life of Berlin society like a sort of bath. An artist here has no choice but to pay attention. Elsewhere he is permitted to stop up his ears and sink into [...]
(English) Waxing Poetic: Berlin’s Live Lit Scene
Looking for lit events in Berlin? Marian Ryan outlines the best of the city's regular shindigs, salons and slams... For literature geeks in Berlin looking to sample the local scene, there’s no shortage of salons, readings, talks and slams. In English or German, whether at big institutions like the embassies and the American Academy, the traditional, clubby Literaturhäuser or intimate Lesebühnen, options are ample. That’s not even counting the hordes of festivals with a [...]
(English) Another Country
Marian Ryan profiles one of Berlin's most characterful bookshops, Kreuzberg's Another Country... In November 2010, one of the world’s best-known travel-guide brands, Lonely Planet, named Berlin’s Another Country among the top ten bookshops in the world. The quirky, thirteen-year-old Kreuzberg institution took its place at number six, alongside legends like Paris’s adored Shakespeare & Company and San Francisco’s iconic City Lights. Not a few jaws dropped among the Berlin [...]
(English) SAND journal
Tam Eastley profiles Berlin's leading literary journal, SAND... California native Becky Crook moved to Berlin from Seattle in October 2008. With a background in Linguistics, European Studies, and Theology, and a first-time novelist herself, she was disappointed to discover, upon arriving in Berlin, that the city's previous literary magazine, Bordercrossings, had shut down. In response, she teamed up with co-founder, Jason Andrews to create SAND, Berlin's English Literary Journal, which [...]
(English) Do You Read Me?!
Carlijn Potma browses Berlin's most comprehensive magazine store... Auguststrasse - East Berlin’s so called ‘art mile’ - doesn't only host a widerange of art galleries. It’s also a great place to hunt for rare books and magazines thanks to No. 28, which houses Do You Read Me?!, a well-known store offering hundreds of interesting magazines and reading material. Graphic designer Mark Kiessling and professional bookseller Jessica Reitz founded the store two and a half [...]
(English) Dialogue Berlin
Wyndham Wallace talks to Sharmaine Lovegrove of Dialogue about the latest chapter in her quest to bring English language literature to Berlin… In 2009, former Londoner Sharmaine Lovegrove set up Dialogue in the back of a Prenzlauer Berg café, seeking to provide not only a source of contemporary English language books – including translations – but also to provide a focus for the city’s English speaking, book loving community. Though other stores existed that sold English [...]
„Escape From Berlin“ von Catherine Klein
Ein intensives und persönliches Portrait über Berlin, einer Stadt auseinandergerissen durch den Krieg... Jeder, der schon mal in Berlin war oder hier wohnt, weiß, dass es unmöglich ist, nicht auf Reliquien des Zweiten Weltkriegs zu stoßen. Die Aura des Krieges wandert durch die Stadt wie unsichtbarer Nebel, der Betonbunker ausfüllt, Gedenkstätten heimsucht und sich an Gebäuden festklammert. Besonders offensichtlich ist es an den jetzt leeren Plätzen, an denen sich einmal Gebäude [...]
