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A hell of a trip: Berliner Jessica Brösche on 45 days in US border lock-up

1 week ago | the-berliner.com | Ruth Weissmann

On January 25, 29-year-old Berliner Jessica Lia Brösche was doing what many Germans do when winter hits – she was going somewhere warm. The trip involved a month in Mexico, then a few weeks in Los Angeles, where the friend with whom she was travelling lives. But when Brösche tried to cross into the United States at the border in San Diego, she was stopped by US Customs and Border Protection.
The Place of Shells: An unexpected journey

1 month ago | the-berliner.com | Bryn Stole

A Japanese art history grad student in the German university town of Göttingen heads to the train station in the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic to meet an unusual visitor: Nomiya, an old college acquaintance, who happens to have been dead for nearly a decade after being swept away in the catastrophic Tōhoku tsunami.
Welcome back, Berlin winter breakers

1 month ago | the-berliner.com | Ruth Weissmann

It’s April, which means Berlin’s most challenging months are finally behind us: subletting-my-flat-on-Instagram-Story season. “Looking for a subletter for my annual winter migration to sunshine”; “subletting my 1br from mid Jan to March!” If you’re not among those who took your company laptop to Mexico City or Cape Town or Porto or Bali or Mallorca during the city’s greyest months, you’re in the majority – but it’s a silent one.
Beyond beige: Discover Marilyne Blais's funky Berlin ceramics

1 month ago | the-berliner.com | Ruth Weissmann

The world is slowly getting less colourful, with car paint, interior design and – in Berlin – wardrobes all invaded with neutrals. But there’s at least one person here who is still colourmaxxing, and that’s Quebec-born ceramic artist Marilyne Blais. Her handmade cups, oil cruets, candle holders, tumblers, bowls and – new this year – butter dishes are a kaleidoscope of kitchenware, individually thrown and glazed in an array of funky, fun hues.
In the Forest of the Metropoles: Mapping Europe's margins

2 months ago | the-berliner.com | Bryn Stole

Karl-Markus Gauß, an Austrian journalist with a genial wit and apparently endless curiosity, offers a literary and literal journey across the margins of Europe, wandering through dusty Slovak villages, the back alleys of Vienna, Siena’s tourist-packed Piazza del Campo and the musty volumes of the old European republic of letters.
Berlin Atomized: Drinking Mate at the end of the world

Feb 13, 2025 | the-berliner.com | Ruth Weissmann

“There was nothing,” Argentinian author and critic Julia Kornberg writes in Berlin Atomized, “more photogenic than a place like Europe as it was here and now, so engulfed in flames.” Her novel, originally published in Spanish, turns up the heat gradually, beginning while the three Goldstein siblings are languishing in relatable teenagedom in a gated neighbourhood of Buenos Aires: Nina is taking aggressively long baths, Jeremías is getting into the music scene, and distant, doomed Mateo is...
Pete Doherty: “Before the whole fucking world goes up in flames, enjoy a bit of culture”

Jan 30, 2025 | the-berliner.com | Duncan Ballantyne-Way

Born 1979 in the English town of Hexham, Pete Doherty is a musician, poet and visual artist best known as the frontman of The Libertines and Babyshambles. A defining figure of the early 2000s indie rock scene, Doherty gained a devoted following for his poetic lyrics, raw performances and magnetic presence.
Berlin boomerangs: What goes around, comes around

Jan 30, 2025 | the-berliner.com | Ruth Weissmann

If you asked Christian Kliem to make you a boomerang, pulling out the Instagram app and recording a looping six-second video would likely be the last thing he thinks to do. “I can build a boomerang very well. But everything that has to do with computers, I’m totally bad at,” he jokes.
This Will Not End Well: The righteous anger of Nan Goldin

Jan 28, 2025 | the-berliner.com | Duncan Ballantyne-Way

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the body behind the Neue Nationalgalerie, must have been dreading the opening night of Nan Goldin’s latest exhibition, cursing museum director Klaus Biesenbach for programming a show with the world’s most celebrated photographer – who just happens to be one of the fiercest advocates for the plight of Palestine. She didn’t hold back.
Celebrating Berlin's independent literary magazine

Jan 27, 2025 | the-berliner.com | Alexander Wells

Since its founding by Becky Crook in 2009, the biannual literary magazine SAND has become a fixture of Berlin’s anglophone writing scene. With an emphasis on diversity, multilingualism and formal innovation, SAND publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art from all over the world. Leave this field empty if you're human: It is also beloved as a community institution – known for hosting launch parties, appearing at book and magazine fairs, and having a large, welcoming, all-volunteer team.