July 27, 2021 - James J Conway takes a tour of the writer’s main haunts during her time in the German capital…
July 7, 2021 - Marcel Krueger on Berlin’s remarkably brave anti-Nazi resistance group…
July 1, 2021 - Paul Sullivan discovers there’s more to Berlin’s loveliest inner-city bay than meets the eye…
June 21, 2021 - Alexander Wells profiles some of the best history books about Weimar Berlin…
June 14, 2021 - Eliẓaveta Efimova on Berlin’s impressive trio of Soviet memorials…
June 10, 2021 - Dunja Medaković channels Sven Regner’s famous novel to explore her East Kreuzberg neighbourhood…
June 1, 2021 - Brian Melican explores the complexity of Berlin’s U-Bahn…
May 29, 2021 - Marina Manoukian on Germany’s role in, and memorialisation of, two international genocides outside of the Holocaust…
May 25, 2021 - Barbaros Altug on Turkish author Sabahattin Ali’s celebrated Berlin novel…
May 18, 2021 - Janae Byrne looks at the history behind one of Neukölln’s most infamous quarters…
May 14, 2021 - John K. Peck on the architectural legacy of Peter Behrens…
May 10, 2021 - Historian Katja Hoyer on her debut book, the Rise & Fall of the German Empire (1871-1918)
April 28, 2021 - Marcel Krueger on the Displaced Persons Literature collection of the Berlin State Library…
April 24, 2021 - Efimova Elizaveta on the Russian orthodox church and cemetery in Reinickendorf…
April 12, 2021 - John K. Peck pays tribute to one of Berlin’s key architectural modernisers…
March 25, 2021 - Paul Sullivan visits the Berlinische Galerie and takes a deep dive into a century of art made in Berlin…
March 11, 2021 - Jesse Simon takes a stroll through the Hansaviertel, yesterday’s city of tomorrow…
March 4, 2021 - Alexander Wells interviews urban historian Brian Ladd about his latest book…
February 13, 2021 - Green spaces and traces of the Berlin Wall on a family-friendly walk to the charming village of Alt Lübars…
February 10, 2021 - Paul Scraton on Bruce Springsteen’s 1988 East Germany concert…
February 2, 2021 - Marcel Krueger profiles one of Berlin’s grimmest memorials…
January 20, 2021 - James J Conway on pioneering Weimar cabaret performers Anita Berber and Valeska Gert…
January 4, 2021 - Paul Sullivan enjoys fabulous scenery and oodles of local history on a hike from Wannsee to Potsdam…
December 28, 2020 - John K. Peck takes a deep dive into the forgotten modernist architecture of Berlin’s Technical University (TU)…
December 4, 2020 - Paul Sullivan talks to legendary GDR photographer Harald Hauswald…
November 17, 2020 - Marcel Krueger visits Berlin’s former Reichskriegsgericht to pay tribute to a murdered family member…
November 8, 2020 - Jesse Simon bids an emotional ‘adieu’ to one of the city’s cold war concrete throwbacks…
September 25, 2020 - Ingar Solty on the formidable legacy of Kurt Tucholsky…
September 22, 2020 - Laura Harker and Paul Sullivan on Nick Cave’s Kreuzberg years…
February 1, 2017 - Paul Sullivan on why strolling is the only real way to understand the city…
March 7, 2016 - Robin Oomkes pays tribute to the founder of International Women’s Day…
January 27, 2016 - Ian Farrell traces the city’s creative responses to the tragedy of the holocaust…
December 31, 2015 - A round-up of Berlin-themed memoirs and autobiographies…
December 3, 2015 - Fabian Schmidt digs through Berlin’s cinematic archives to uncover the sights and sites of the pre-war city…
November 23, 2015 - Nicolas Bouliane explores the story of The Berlin Airlift…
November 9, 2015 - Robin Oomkes hears the personal stories of two former East Berlin residents who fled to the West…