May 2010 – The Needle: Berlin

Berlin History

Joseph Pearson 25/05/201023/06/2018

American Baseball Diamonds

There are few places left in Berlin where the experience of American occupation after the Second World War is still

Berlin History

Joseph Pearson 19/05/201023/06/2018

Karl-Marx Allee

It was a place to walk through, and stare. Built in the early fifties, Karl-Marx Allee, leading into Alexanderplatz, with

Living in Berlin

Joseph Pearson 06/05/201023/06/2018

Urbanstraße, 10967 Berlin, Kreuzberg

This stretch of Urbanstraße is clogged with four lanes of traffic and is not far from the discordant

Joseph Pearson is a writer and historian based in Berlin. His non-fiction portrait of Berlin was published in 2017. He published a second book, My Grandfather’s Knife, about how everyday objects tell World War Two stories, in 2022. His writing has appeared widely in the press, literary and academic journals, and has been translated into German, Italian, French, Arabic, and other languages. Born in Canada, he was educated at Cambridge University, UK, where he received his doctorate in history in 2001. He works at New York University, Berlin, and at the Barenboim-Said Akademie. Since 2008, he has written The Needle, which has become one of Berlin’s most popular blogs. For professional inquiries please contact his agency, Peters Fraser Dunlop, email him directly joseph [AT] cantab.net, or visit his professional website: josephpearson.ca