The Needle: Berlin

Why Are Anglo Businesses Closing in Kreuzberg?

Hudson’s, the English cake shop we blogged soon after its opening, closed its doors on Sunday. It’s the third English-speaking

On a Friday sunny morning I see a large group waiting at the M41 bus stop on Urbanstraße on the

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.

On Cuvrystr. in Kreuzberg there is a famous street art mural of a man chained to his own wealth, a

The Needle is back after my winter break, and in time to catch the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival, or

Another nasty sticker pasted around Berlin telling you to go home. Of so you think. Is it meant––yet again, in

Every winter something remarkable has happened in Berlin. The Badeschiff (or “swimming boat”) is an innovative pool that floats in

Imagine you are in a Berlin bar, at your most vulnerable at the urinal or bathroom stall, and you read

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

At the age of 25, in 1931, Dietrich Bonhoeffer became the vicar of the Protestant Zionskirche in Berlin Mitte. What