May 2013 – The Needle: Berlin

Living in Berlin

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Berlin’s Ghetto Bus: the M41

On a Friday sunny morning I see a large group waiting at the M41 bus stop on Urbanstraße on the

Berlin and German Politics

Joseph Pearson 06/05/201323/06/2018

Xenophobia Posing as Social Activism in Berlin

Berlin woke up the over the weekend to an attack on a business on Rykestraße. A business was defaced with

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