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Artconnect Berlin
Adrian Pasen chats to Julia Mari Bernaus about the comprehensive online hub she's built for Berlin’s art community... With its heady mix of freedom of creative expression, liberalism and affordable living, it’s little wonder that Berlin continues to serve as the unofficial hub for peripatetic creatives from all corners of the globe.It makes for an incalculably large talent pool, all looking for new outlets, new inspiration and new collaborative opportunities. But the sheer number and [...]
Thomas Pletzinger: Funeral For A Dog
Where Adam Butler conducts two separate interviews with Thomas Pletzinger and Ross Benjamin, author and translator of Funeral for a Dog, and presents them simultaneously... Are you sure this is going to work? You have to click on that little camera symbol. I talked to Thomas Pletzinger (the author) and Ross Benjamin (the translator) separately. I met Ross first, in a restaurant next to Wannsee S-Bahnhof that, as far as I could tell, was entirely staffed by Russians. It was raining; I [...]
Berlin: City Of Street Art & Graffiti
Simon Arms looks at the development of the Berlin street art and graffiti scene... Art critic Emilie Trice has called Berlin “the graffiti Mecca of the urban art world.” While few people would argue with her, the Berlin street scene is not as radical as her statement suggests. Street art in Berlin is a big industry. It’s not exactly legal, but the city’s title of UNESCO’s City of Design has kept local authorities from doing much to change what observers call the most “bombed” [...]
Ixthys
Nathalie Moukarzel visits one of Berlin's smallest Korean restaurants and finds the best Kimchi in town... Ixthys held a sort of mysticism in my mind before I had the pleasure to go and see for myself what it was all about; people spoke of this small restaurant in an unassuming street, with great food, an uncomplicated menu, and Biblical references pasted across the walls, as though it was the Mecca of Korean dining in Berlin. Naturally I had high expectations, and some of them (unusually [...]
Stephen Barber: Walls Of Berlin
Stephen Barber is a Professor at Kingston University's and a writer on urban culture, experiment in film and Japanese culture. He has been writing since 1990 and has published twenty books (sixteen non-fiction books and four novels), many of them translated into other languages. He has received many awards and prizes for his books, from bodies such as the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio Program), Ford Foundation, DAAD, Japan Foundation and Henkel Foundation, He is currently engaged in a [...]
Bicycles: The Key To Better Cities
Kasey Klimes explains how bicycles encourage a more intimate relationship with our urban environment... We all know the talking points. The benefits of bicycles have been tirelessly elaborated upon; bicycles improve health, ease congestion, save money, use less space, and provide efficient transportation with zero fuel consumption and zero carbon emissions. The culmination of a population on two wheels can have a drastic impact on the overall wellbeing of a city. However, none [...]
Dong Xuang Center
Marian Ryan visits Lichtenberg's Dong Xuang Center and takes a closer look at Berlin's Vietnamese community... To any casual visitor, it’s obvious: Berlin, in many ways, is a mess. Despite twenty years of rebuilding and gentrification, of whitewash and polish, you’ll find prairie-size empty tracts just west of shiny new Potsdamer Platz and grimy, windowless buildings in Prenzlauer Berg. Decay and regeneration, subtle processes in most places, here are on brazen display. This [...]
Ewan Pearson, Clubland Maestro
Wyndham Wallace chats to Berlin-based DJ, producer, writer and clubland luminary Ewan Pearson... Very much the renaissance man, English born Ewan Pearson has earned a reputation as one of the best contemporary DJs, producers and musicians around. Known to many for his remixes of Goldfrapp, The Chemical Brothers, Feist and Franz Ferdinand, he’s not afraid of venturing beyond the electronic music scene, and has worked as a producer for The Rapture, Gwen Stefani, M83, Delphic and [...]
The Müggelturm
Richard Carter explores Berlin's mysterious Müggelturm... Out in the furthest reaches of Treptow-Köpenick, hiding behind a high barbed wire-topped fence, is a strange radome-topped tower on a hill. If you're thinking it looks like a cold war listening station, you'd actually be completely right, but it's one with a rather interesting background. Back in 1954, with plans well underway to establish a brave new world of communism in East Germany, work began here on building a tower for [...]
Rocking Remembrance
Does Berlin need another memorial that simulates historical experience? No, argues Dr. Karl Schlögel, who suggests the city should take itself "a little more seriously"... In 2009 the Bundestag launched a public competition to design a memorial to Freedom and Unity, in memory of the peaceful revolution in the GDR and German reunification. The winning design by Stuttgart designer Johannes Milla and Berlin choreographer Sasha Waltz is due to be erected on Berlin's [...]
