Anne-Marie Harrison

Nov 12, 2024 | the-berliner.com | Anne-Marie Harrison

The smell hits you before the sight does: day-old urine saturating every crevice of the open-air stalls (why aim when you’re not the one cleaning up?), the door to the modern-looking enclosure jammed open, its lock mechanism blinking sadly, one or two bodies hunched over inside and a perfectly-placed pile of excrement at the door.

Sep 27, 2024 | the-berliner.com | Anne-Marie Harrison

It didn’t happen all at once, the realisation that Iván Gábor could no longer stay in his home country of Hungary. “I started to wake up almost every night, always with the same question: if there was a big demonstration against the regime tomorrow and I was standing there, knowing that during the whole day I’m working as part of this system, am I morally really allowed to do anything, to say anything?” he says.

Sep 18, 2024 | the-berliner.com | Anne-Marie Harrison

If you ride a bike in Berlin, odds are you’ve likely encountered one well-known and much-maligned rite of passage: a missing wheel, a seat having taken its leave, maybe the whole damn bike is gone. Is this just something that the 500,000 Berliners who ride a bike every day have to accept, that bike theft is as ubiquitous as Wegbier and “nur Barzahlung”.

Aug 1, 2024 | goodtimes.sc | Anne-Marie Harrison

There’s a scene in the documentary Cowspiracy where director Kip Andersen charges into the lobby of the San Francisco Greenpeace office and asks the woman at the counter to see the program director. Andersen has been trying to get an appointment for two months, and wants to know why Greenpeace doesn’t focus on animal agriculture as the leading cause of greenhouse gas emissions. Greenpeace’s PR person comes out to shoo him away, saying representatives will be in touch.

Jun 11, 2024 | the-berliner.com | Anne-Marie Harrison

Sadly, Thaipark’s local popularity and international accolades from the likes of Time Out and The New York Times couldn’t shield it from being uprooted by local politicians who are, let’s face it, probably a little scharf-averse themselves. Despite navigating every obstacle in Berlin’s bureaucratic labyrinth and being willing to answer every complaint lobbied against them, the food market will no longer be allowed to remain at its longstanding location at Preußenpark in Wilmersdorf.