The Needle: Berlin

A Trip Home from the Club

Get up! Aufstehen! The sun’s up already and somehow Noah’s woken this crazy old man with his cane and his

It’s easy to forget that Germany is a new country and that, for much of its history, the term ‘German’

If Berlin has a tear in its fabric, a trap door to an alternate reality, it’s here. Suspended under the

Berlin scares the hell out of me, a Parisian friend confesses on a weekend visit. Putain! Look how empty the

You love this Viennese-styled café, but at times it fills you with grief. You were here in late autumn and

Being an expat can be profoundly frustrating and disorienting. It is like having no points of reference, it’s the struggle

On the top floor there is a flat where the old man himself lived. Not a bad solution for old

It’s not just the rumble of S-Bahn Charlottenburg’s train tracks above that makes you feel in-transit. In the Rossia supermarket,

Kottbusser Tor, the centre of the ertswhile-radical SO36 district in Kreuzberg, is affectionately known as just ‘Kotti’. The surrounding kiez

(bear with us as we try to correct some formatting problems with this page) I first visited the Jewish

Not far from Hermannplatz, the cusp of Kreuzberg and Neukölln, at Hasenheide 13, are two tunnels that lead to another