A Sigh of Relief on the Death Strip
I walk through the former death strip of the Berlin Wall and relief floods through me. I don’t miss the
Read MoreI walk through the former death strip of the Berlin Wall and relief floods through me. I don’t miss the
Read MoreGet up! Aufstehen! The sun’s up already and somehow Noah’s woken this crazy old man with his cane and his
Read MoreIt’s easy to forget that Germany is a new country and that, for much of its history, the term ‘German’
Read MoreIf Berlin has a tear in its fabric, a trap door to an alternate reality, it’s here. Suspended under the
Read MoreBerlin scares the hell out of me, a Parisian friend confesses on a weekend visit. Putain! Look how empty the
Read MoreYou love this Viennese-styled café, but at times it fills you with grief. You were here in late autumn and
Read MoreBeing an expat can be profoundly frustrating and disorienting. It is like having no points of reference, it’s the struggle
Read MoreOn the top floor there is a flat where the old man himself lived. Not a bad solution for old
Read MoreIt’s not just the rumble of S-Bahn Charlottenburg’s train tracks above that makes you feel in-transit. In the Rossia supermarket,
Read MoreKottbusser Tor, the centre of the ertswhile-radical SO36 district in Kreuzberg, is affectionately known as just ‘Kotti’. The surrounding kiez
Read More(bear with us as we try to correct some formatting problems with this page) I first visited the Jewish
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