Berlin History

In Koppenplatz, in Berlin’s Mitte, you might be surprised to see an overturned chair next to a table in the

Today, I’m reprinting a short interview, on the occasion of the publication of my new book, Berlin, with Reaktion Press in London

  We could not find very much information about the lives of the two women who lived in our building

  This past week marked the 70th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe, and in Berlin the city

In the news, there will be plenty of celebrating the anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. But for many

Maybe it’s just a rumour. That you can cross into the West. Chris Gueffroy’s heard a rumour too, that things

What must be Berlins’ best cocktail bar is located in what was once a Communist beauty parlour on breezy Karl-Marx-Allee.

At this year’s Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival), on Sunday, the Imperial War Museum in London premiered their restoration of the

Frisky as a rabbit, Frederick William II (1744-1797) was called by some der Vielgeliebte (the much loved), and by others

I am a historian teaching undergraduates at New York University in Berlin and today I was asked, walking in the

On Saturday, a new official war cemetery was inaugurated near Smolensk Russia for some 30 000 fallen German soldiers retrieved from