Hohenschönhausen: In Pictures
Stefanie Rothenhöfer 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. In 2010 Lohöfener won first place in the Sony World Photography Awards (Category Fine Art/Architecture 2011), and recently bagged 4th place at the Art of Photography Show, 4th Place, [...]
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 [...]
On the Osloer Strasse
Paul Scraton reports on life in his Gesundbrunnen kiez... 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 few steps up the street [...]
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 [...]
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... .tp { color: #611; } .rb { color: #136; } .ab { color: #333; } 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 [...]
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 [...]
