History
Bowie in Berlin: The ultimate quiz
How much do you really know about those Berlin years? Read more
Jan 11, 2021
Excerpt: How Berlin went from almost bankrupt to techno capital
In an essay from a new book through the Goethe-Institut, Tobias Rapp tells the story of a scrappy city that became home to one of the world’s most influential music scenes. Read more
Dec 17, 2020
Hitler’s little-known American Dream
We speak to Cambridge historian Brendan Simms on his controversial biography that explores how the dictator’s fraught obsession with the US shaped the Third Reich. Read more
Nov 30, 2020
The American poet who started the Afro-German movement
We spoke to the women who knew Audre Lorde during her Berlin years and are carrying on her legacy. Read more
Nov 24, 2020
“I feel lost in Berlin.”: The city according to Mark Twain
The creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn lived the Berlin expat life for five months between October 1891 and March 1892. Here’s what he had to say. Read more
Nov 24, 2020
Digging for communists
Excavating Lenin’s 3.5-tonne decapitated head from a Müggelheim forest kicked off Rick Minnich’s filmmaking career, and brought the Southern Californian to local fame. Read more
Nov 16, 2020
A vanished refuge of Jewish culture
A WALK IN THE PARK! Our explorer visits a subtle reminder of Nazi atrocities in northern Kreuzberg, where a stone marks the former site of a short-lived theatre that was one one of the most important playhouses in Germany. Read more
May 19, 2020
