The Needle: Berlin

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

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.

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

It is late summer and you wander through the garden of beasts, the Tiergarten, along the waters of the Neuer

At dinner last night on Schoenleinstraße in Kreuzberg, I was surrounded by people who live in Wedding and love it.

The small city of Toruń escaped the Second World War miraculously undamaged. When you approach from the rail station across the

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

A recent phenomenon in Kreuzberg are the crowds piling into the old Markthalle 9, an unrenovated market hall of more

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

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