Berlin and German Politics

Spotted this afternoon on what was once Schoenleinstraße, Kreuzberg: a political art action renaming the street Snowdenstraße, after the American

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

To see people protesting in front of the Berlin Wall, as they have done this week, is not something new.

It’s with relief that I return to Berlin from disheartening trips around Europe, but I also come back angry. The

There are two faces to the International Workers Day protests in Berlin. There are the street parties, with DJs setting

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

Once upon a time, artists moved to Berlin because it was cheap. These days, they move to Berlin because they’ve heard

It’s a Wednesday evening on Kreuzberg’s Admiralbrücke in summer, and there must be 200 people here, drinking store-bought beer, smoking,