Berlin and German Politics

Germany’s antiquated, Version 1,0, civil partnership law for same-sex couples desperately needs an upgrade. In June, the US Supreme Court

‘The problem is the false sense of safety that hangs over this city’, I tell the police officer, and he agrees

Tonight was the Berlin premiere of Laura Poitras’s film about Edward Snowden, Citizenfour. Before the director was invited to the

On 25 May 2014, there will be a referendum in Berlin on the future of the Tempelhof Airfield. The proposal

More than twice the number expected showed up this year to the 1 May left-wing demonstrations in Kreuzberg (close to

I must admit that the idea of spending the weekend in Görlitz came up after watching the film, Grand Budapest

You wake to a blue sky, the temperature rises, and you dare to say Spring is coming. What do the

A new exhibition opened tonight (1/11/13) at the Kunstquartier Bethanien called ‘In Search of Europe? Equals in an Unequal World’. It is

How did you make your way to Berlin, Ali? Overland to Libya from Mali, he paid a human smuggler almost

It’s time to vote in Germany this weekend and you might have been wondering what issues are on the plate

I came across this street-art poster the other evening near Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg. It’s entitled Emigro (‘I emigrate’ in