Berlin History

It’s lunch hour at the Stadtklause. The public sit at narrow tables with wooden benches. The walls are covered with

The bombed-out Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche) on Breitscheidplatz near Zoo Station in Berlin was recently renovated. And it must be

It’s 1880 and you are in the biggest train station in continental Europe standing under an iron and glass roof

You are deaf in an air raid. Imagine the mouths open, but you cannot hear the screams. No sound, just

Last month, at the American Academy in Berlin, I had the pleasure of hearing students from the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia play

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