March 2012 – The Needle: Berlin

Living in Berlin

Joseph Pearson 26/03/201223/06/2018

The Sixth Borough: Berlin as New York

New York in the seventies without the crime? New York with a type-B personality? The way ‘the East Village used

Berlin and German Politics

Joseph Pearson 15/03/201223/06/2018

The Arab Spring in Berlin

On Hobrechtstraße in Neukölln, that corner of Kreuzkölln between the Lebanese community on Sonnenallee and the canal, there is a

Berlin Arts

Joseph Pearson 07/03/201223/06/2018

Gerhard Richter Unaccompanied: The Retrospective at the Neue

Gerhard Richter was flying to New York on September 11th 2001. His exhibition 40 Years of Painting was opening at MOMA

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