Kirchensteuer: A Nasty Letter from the Catholic Church
Recently, I got a nasty letter from the Catholic Church. But I’ll get to that. Let me start with the
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The Needle’s 2013 German Federal Elections Roundup
It’s time to vote in Germany this weekend and you might have been wondering what issues are on the plate
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The Berlin Brunch all’Italiana, at Brio
NOTE: Alas, the brunch at Brio has been suspended until further notice. There’s no such thing as brunch in Italy.
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Unemployed Spanish Youth in Berlin
I came across this street-art poster the other evening near Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg. It’s entitled Emigro (‘I emigrate’ in
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The Bridge of Neglected Lions
It is late summer and you wander through the garden of beasts, the Tiergarten, along the waters of the Neuer
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Gentrification Alert: Wedding
At dinner last night on Schoenleinstraße in Kreuzberg, I was surrounded by people who live in Wedding and love it.
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Weekend Trips from Berlin: Toruń’s Gothic in Poland
The small city of Toruń escaped the Second World War miraculously undamaged. When you approach from the rail station across the
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The Peacock Island… and sex in Arcadia
Frisky as a rabbit, Frederick William II (1744-1797) was called by some der Vielgeliebte (the much loved), and by others
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Markthalle 9, Kreuzberg: The Puzzle of Street Food Thursday
A recent phenomenon in Kreuzberg are the crowds piling into the old Markthalle 9, an unrenovated market hall of more
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Why We Participated in the 1936 Nazi Games: Lessons for Sochi
I am a historian teaching undergraduates at New York University in Berlin and today I was asked, walking in the
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Exhuming German War Dead in the East
On Saturday, a new official war cemetery was inaugurated near Smolensk Russia for some 30 000 fallen German soldiers retrieved from
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