Tear Gas, Riot Police and Barbecue: 1 May 2012 in Kreuzberg
There are two faces to the International Workers Day protests in Berlin. There are the street parties, with DJs setting
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Musing about Nazi Exiles in Mexikoplatz Station
‘All the streets around here were named after South American countries, so that when their soldiering grandfathers return from exile,
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No Water for You, Unless It’s ‘Still or Sparkling’?
Getting a glass of water in a German restaurant is not an easy task. Unless you are willing to pay
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Erotica and White Asparagus Season
Asparagus season makes me uneasy. This is a problem living in Germany, because Spargelzeit* is unavoidable. The alien fern crops
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The Sixth Borough: Berlin as New York
New York in the seventies without the crime? New York with a type-B personality? The way ‘the East Village used
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The Arab Spring in Berlin
On Hobrechtstraße in Neukölln, that corner of Kreuzkölln between the Lebanese community on Sonnenallee and the canal, there is a
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Gerhard Richter Unaccompanied: The Retrospective at the Neue
Gerhard Richter was flying to New York on September 11th 2001. His exhibition 40 Years of Painting was opening at MOMA
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London in Exile: Literati, Scones and Hudson’s Cakes
Walk through this door and into the story of many English speakers in Berlin. Jim Hudson worked for an architecture practice.
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How to Survive the Berlinale (the Berlin Film Festival)
Potsdamer Platz is suddenly teeming with people. There isn’t the density of midtown Manhattan but, restrict your peripheral vision, you
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Hidden Mid-Century Modernism at the Haus der Kulturen
I am about to visit one of Berlin’s most beautiful, undiscovered and under-appreciated interiors. Take the 100 bus through the
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Literaturhaus Café
It’s winter and there is finally snow on the ground. I go to the Literature House on Fasanenstr. 23 in
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