Features

Wed at Burger: "Drugs in Berlin" panel discussion

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:30:00 GMT

From homegrown cannabis on your balcony to heroin on the streets and cocaine in the clubs... drugs are pretty much everywhere in Berlin. Our Drugs Issue tackled them from every angle and now we're taking it live. Join us Wed, May 29 at Kaffee Burger.

From the inside: The cop

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:00:00 GMT

Do Berlin cops give a shit about drugs in this city? One Berlin police officer offers insight into the daily trials and tribulations of being the potential buzzkill.

Seven questions for... Occupy Barbie Dreamhouse

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:15:00 GMT

INTERVIEW: Barbie Dreamhouse, in all its pre-fab tackiness, opens today. Instead of Ken, Berlin may have other occupiers in mind: Occupy Barbie Dreamhouse. They hold a demo on May 16 on Alexanderplatz at 3pm.

Save Berlin: Nomad chic

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT

Come fall 2013 Berlin welcomes Eba51, its first post-industrial-pre-fab container city: a cheap, mobile flat village offering affordable housing. But what are the repercussions of exiling Berlin's poor majority to the city's outskirts?

From the inside: The drug dealer

Tue, 07 May 2013 15:00:00 GMT

Our "Drugs in Berlin" issue has been on the stands for over a week now. Sample some its wares here and read Walter Crasshole's chat with a real businessman. Buy the issue to get a look at the other sides of the law: the cop and the lawmaker.

My perfect Berlin weekend: Pascal Feucher

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:15:00 GMT

Pascal Feucher is the owner of the buzzed-about Urban Spree, a cultural and (re)creative space focussed on urban cultures that hosts a number of events.

OUT NOW! Our DRUGS issue!

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:00:00 GMT

INSIDE: DEALERS, LAWMAKERS and COPS, Drug quiz, WHAT KIND OF DRUGGIE ARE YOU?, a day at the FIXERSTUBE, SMART drugs and HIPPIE drugs from Vigil to AYAHUASCA. Also, interviews with CARSTON NICOLAI, MODESELEKTOR and much, much more!

The Humboldt Forum must go!

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:00:00 GMT

Comedian and filmmaker Marion Pfaus will join us with her film TONIGHT for our SAVE BERLIN EXBLICKS at Lichtblick Kino and field a Q&A. The Humboldt Forum is set to have the first stone laid in June and Pfaus is raising money for its demolition.

Save Berlin: The cranes are back!

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMT

Last month the news that part of the East Side Gallery would be removed awakened many Berliners to the city's changing landscape. Then it was stopped. Then it happened anyway. But the Wall isn't the only part of Berlin under threat.

Save Berlin: Renters vs. the system!

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:30:00 GMT

Once upon a time, Berlin was the city of beautiful bargain apartments. Now, newcomers and longtime tenants alike need to know their rights to avoid rising rents and scare tactics by landlords and housing companies trying to cash in.

Berlin: Deportations on the rise

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:30:00 GMT

The situation of Roma in Germany – past and present. From Duldung to deportation, the number of Balkan refugee lives affected by Germany's policies grows by the day.

"Duldung is a permament state of suffering"

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:30:00 GMT

INTERVIEW. If anyone knows what it’s like to feel unwelcome, it’s Bosnian-born photographer Nihad Nino Pušija – he was merely ‘tolerated’ as a refugee. The German status of ‘Duldung’ is something that haunts not only him but many of his subjects.

Exclusive! Pussy Riot battles on!

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMT

INTERVIEW. Pussy Riot's Yekaterina Samutsevich has been taking on the big guns yet again, this time with Der Spiegel. On probation in Moscow since 2010, the punkette rocker fights back against claims that she sold out the other Pussies.

Der Spiegel and the Pussy Riot media war

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:45:00 GMT

Here's the rundown on how Pussy Riot's Yekaterina Samutsevich has been dubbed a traitor by German newspaper Der Spiegel, and the repercussions.

"They send us back like dogs"

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:30:00 GMT

In 2012, 12,000 Roma refugees were deported to the Kosovo slums, making the minority group's long-awaited Berlin Holocaust memorial little more than a token gesture. With International Romani Day on April 8, we present some of the deportees' stories.