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'We’d Have Told Each Other Everything': Writing, memory and Berlin counterculture

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

Bumping into her former psychoanalyst during a night out drinking in Prenzlauer Berg sets Judith Hermann’s gears of memory turning in this brilliant memoir (or is it a work of autofiction?) by one of Germany’s great contemporary writers.
"There is a culture of fear": Berlin Four lawyer on the silencing of political demonstrations

1 month ago | the-berliner.com | Hannah Moore

Alexander Gorski is a Berlin-based lawyer who specialises in migration and criminal law, and who has represented several clients involved in the pro-Palestine movement. When The Berliner went to visit him at his office in Reinickendorf on Thursday afternoon, they had planned to discuss his recent success in getting the deportation orders against the so-called “Berlin Four” – EU nationals Shane O’Brien, Roberta Murray and Kasia Wlaszczyk, and US citizen Cooper Longbottom – overturned.
'Allegro Pastel': An intensely specific Berlin love story

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

There’s something about reading Allegro Pastel that evokes the aisles of Decathlon; the sportswear washed in fluorescent light, simultaneously hyper-illuminating and dulling, dazzling and matte. And not just because Leif Randt reportedly initially planned to title the book “Artengo”, after Decathlon’s line of tennis gear.
A hell of a trip: Berliner Jessica Brösche on 45 days in US border lock-up

1 month 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

2 months 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

2 months 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.
Germany's 'Whore ID': Stigma or safety for sex workers? - The Berliner

Mar 24, 2025 | the-berliner.com | Carolyn Stransky Vohr

The Prostitutes Protection Act was intended to help, but is it? Discover how Berlin's sex worker community is demanding policy changes to address stigma and surveillance.
Beyond beige: Discover Marilyne Blais's funky Berlin ceramics

Mar 18, 2025 | 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

Feb 19, 2025 | 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...