STB editor Paul Sullivan and regular contributor Marcel Krueger, the authors of Berlin. A Literary Guide for Travellers and both admirers of Weimar literature, have teamed up with the people behind the the fantastic Romanisches Café exhibition at Europa Center to present a special English-language literary event.
They have invited Berlin writers Julia Bosson and Paul Scraton to introduce their favourite literary regulars of Romanisches from the 1920s and 1930s and juxtaposition those literary voices with their own writings from the city today, followed by a public discussion with Marcel Krueger.
The event is free, but please register for a ticket with the Romanisches Café exhibition as seating is limited.
November 14, 2025, 7 pm at Ausstellungsraum “Romanisches Café” im Europa Center, Tauentzienstraße 9-12, 10789 Berlin
Julia Bosson is a writer originally from Ojai, California. Her work has appeared in publications such as BOMB, VICE, Guernica, and the Believer, among others. The recipient of grants from the Fulbright Program, DAAD, and the MFJC, she has been awarded fellowships and residencies from LABA, the Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center, Monson Arts, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and the Catwalk Institute. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Diasporist, a new magazine of German politics and culture, and co-leader of the Berlin Jewish writer’s collective Die Sammlung. She currently resides in Berlin and is at work on a novel about the life and journalism of Joseph Roth.
Paul Scraton was born in the north of England and has lived in Berlin since 2002. He is the co-founder of Elsewhere: A Journal of Place and has written for a variety of publications including The Guardian, New Statesman, Literary Hub, Times Literary Supplement and more. He is the author of six books of fiction and nonfiction, including Ghosts on the Shore: Travels along Germany’s Baltic Coast and On the Edge. Berlin Outskirts, both of which have been translated into Polish and published by Czarne. His latest book is the novel A Dream of White Horses, which was published by Bluemoose Books in the UK in 2024.
Marcel Krueger is a German-Irish writer, editor and translator living in Berlin. Through the prism of family history he explores the tragedies of Europe in the 20th and 21st century and what these mean for memory and identity today, especially focusing on Ireland, Germany and Poland. Marcel is inspired by writers like W.G. Sebald, Dubravka Ugrešić and Martin Pollack, and his essays have been published in the Guardian, Notes from Poland, 3:AM, CNN Travel, New Eastern Europe, Przekrój, and the Irish Times, amongst others. Marcel is the co-editor of Elsewhere – A Journal of Place, and has published five non-fiction books in English and German, among them Berlin – A Literary Guide for Travellers (written together with Paul Sullivan, IB Tauris 2016) and Babushka’s Journey – The Dark Road to Stalin’s Wartime Camps (IB Tauris, 2018). He is a former fellow of the German Culture Forum for Central and Eastern Europe and in 2019 worked as the official writer-in-residence of Olsztyn in northern Poland, a region to which he remains closely linked.
