I’m really excited to be running a 4-week creative writing course focussing on the Erotic next month at Lettrétage, Berlin Mitte next month. … Read More Your Erotic Story: A four-week creative writing course in Berlin Mitte, starting Feb
When the giant aquarium containing one million litres of water at Berlin’s Radisson Blu exploded last December, the fish weren’t the only victims. If you were there on the day, you’d have seen firefighters rescuing retro furniture too. These belonged to the neighbouring DDR Museum, which claims to have the largest collection of objects from… Read More Listening to the past at the newly reopened DDR Museum
This year’s British Council Literature Seminar was all about class and contemporary writing.… Read More British Council Literature Seminar 2023 on Class and Contemporary UK Writing
I have been thinking about identity a lot recently. Susan Sontag’s diaries reveal how she constantly recreated herself. Like setting out to be less charming and more serious. Don’t smile so much, sit up straight…and above all Don’t Say It, all those sentences that come ready-to-say on the ticker-tape at the back of my tongue.… Read More Paris Magnétique at The Jewish Museum, Berlin
October in Berlin: Two experiences that centred around the importance of storytelling.… Read More Etgar Keret at the Jewish Museum Berlin and The Freedom Theatre at Theaterhaus Mitte
I love spending Christmas in Berlin. I haven’t done it for a while, but there’s something charming and playful about it.… Read More Nine interesting things you learn by spending Christmas in Berlin
German humour is strange. Plus, the Germans captured the absurdism of the internet and conspiracy theories first. … Read More German humour and conspiracy theories
“Berlin ist vorbei,” says Andreas Jeromin, a former Berlin squatter. It’s a phrase we hear often. Berlin is over. The coolest, most creative time the city had ever experienced, just after the fall of the wall in the 1990s, is long gone. But the current exhibition at the Alte Münze attempts to revisit the era with Nineties… Read More Nineties Berlin at the Alte Münze
Last night, I had the pleasure of seeing Pi, a modern dance performance at Pfefferberg Theatre. There is something about bodies moving through space in exceptional ways that is both delightful, energising and emotional — and this performance was no different. … Read More Pi – Petricore Movement & Zentire Music at Pfefferberg Theater
The Daimler Art Collection is very hard to find. We walked past it twice before spotting the little door that led to it. … Read More Guest post by Sophie Poulter-Patel: Daimler Art Collection
The Jewish Museum Berlin is a disorientating place. It is made up of various buildings from different periods, most recently The Libeskind building.… Read More Welcome to Jerusalem at the Jewish Museum Berlin
The Wall Museum at the East Side Gallery, which opened last year, is situated in the same building that houses the Pirates Bar. … Read More The Wall Museum East Side Gallery
Christmas is here! But despite the sprinkling of snow and Christmas markets popping up everywhere, I hadn’t been feeling the Christmas spirit until I saw A Christmas Carol at theaterforum kreuzberg.… Read More A Christmas Carol at theaterforum kreuzberg
Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) was a Berlin-based artist, most famous for chronicling life in the city during the 1920s.… Read More Jeanne Mammen at the Berlinische Gallerie
With OSMO, where Beethoven’s last string quartet meets an installation meets an audience, Sebastian Blasius has directed a musical performance that hardly anyone can recognise as a musical performance.… Read More OSMO: A musical performance by Sebastian Blasius and the Sonar Quartett at Ufer Studios Berlin
Tess Motherway is an Irish filmmaker, visual artist & film curator, based in Berlin. She will be demonstrating her first performance piece ‘Things Men Have Said To Me This Year’ on Saturday, 16th September at 6pm at Alexanderplatz.… Read More Creative In Berlin: Tess Motherway
Kassel is most notable for the contemporary art exhibition documenta, which takes over its galleries, museums and public spaces for a period of 100 days every five years. … Read More Weekend Trips from Berlin: documenta14 in Kassel
Berlin Ninja asks, “What would Berlin look like with a superhero or villain in it?” Follow @berlinninja on Instagram.… Read More The Friday Image: Panorama Punkt View by Berlin Ninja
Last week, Berlin’s Tech Open Air (TOA) festival took over the city. Now in its sixth year, TOA is an interdisciplinary festival that brings together technology, music, art and science.… Read More Berlin’s Tech Open Air Festival 2017
Berlin Ninja asks, “What would Berlin look like with a superhero or villain in it?” Follow @berlinninja on Instagram.
Funny video pitching Berlin as a startup…… Read More Pitch: ‘Berlin as a Startup City’
Berlin has often been termed the sex capital of the world, famous for its sexually liberal attitude, vibrant gay scene, sex parties and clubs.… Read More Book Review: Berlin: 69 Erotic Places
Sandy Di Yu is a Berlin-based artist. For more, check out her Instagram.
The Friday Image: Where Did You Hide the Sun? by Sandy Di Yu… Read More The Friday Image: Where Did You Hide the Sun? by Sandy Di Yu
Ryan Hellyer is a Berlin-based software developer, former chemist and creator of Comic Jet, a fun and colourful site that enables you to learn German from comics. … Read More Creative in Berlin: Ryan Hellyer
Sandy Di Yu is a Berlin-based artist. For more, check out her Instagram.
When I think about where I came from and all I can remember is waiting for the bus a lot…… Read More The Friday Image: Waiting for the Bus, by Sandy Di Yu
When people first settled in the Neukölln, the district in the very south of Berlin, it was like a new colony, hence the name…… Read More The Berlin Neukölln Tasting Tour
Last night, Berlin-based author Ryan Ruby read from his debut novel The Zero and the One at Shakespeare and Sons bookshop in Friedrichshain.… Read More Reading: Ryan Ruby at Shakespeare and Sons
Last night Mohamed Diab’s Clash, set against the backdrop of Egypt’s 2013 revolution, screened at City Kino in Wedding as part of the Arab Film Festival.… Read More Clash at the 8th Arab Film Festival Berlin
Berlin is a city haunted by the past, built on layers of memory. Holger Raschke, founder of Berlins Taiga, a tour company that focuses on the Soviet history of the city and its surrounding areas, is also fascinated by the past.… Read More Soviet Berlin with Holger Raschke
As usual, the Germans have been getting warmed up for New Year’s Eve — the one night of the year when they go completely crazy.… Read More Why the Germans turn into werewolves on New Year’s Eve
Álvaro Sendra González rounds up a choice list of English-speaking bookshops in Neukölln.… Read More English bookshops in Neukölln
Friday evening saw the English Theatre Berlin’s staged reading of Informed Consent by Deborah Zoe Laufer.… Read More Informed Consent at the English Theatre Berlin
Berlin’s second STATE Festival, which brings together leading scientists, innovators, social-scientists, artists and members of the public to explore one topic took place recently at Kühlhaus in Gleisdreieck.… Read More STATE Festival Berlin: The Sentimental Machine
Bernhard Vierling has been a working artist in Berlin since 1986…… Read More Creative in Berlin: Bernhard Vierling
The Bavarian and I have split up so for the first time ever, I am open explore Berlin’s modern dating scene. This can be summed up in one word: Tinder.… Read More Tinder in Berlin
Museum overnights have become well-established, but I had never heard of a sleepover at a theatre venue before…… Read More Guest Blogger Pat O’Day Sleeps Over at Ballhaus Ost’s Hotel Berlin
Street Artist Tobo is a Berliner who has been tagging the city since he was eight years old.… Read More Tobo at Teufelsberg
Travellers tell tales around camp fires, late into the night when nothing else is stirring…… Read More Two For A Girl at the English Theatre Berlin
Stunned. There’s nothing else to say about Britain’s decision to leave the European Union.… Read More A #Brexit Playlist
Berlin Glas e.V. offers glass-making courses which will ensure you never look at glass the same way again…… Read More Glass Making in Berlin Schönholz
Lippy, a theatre piece based on a true incident that occurred in Leixlip, Ireland, where four women committed suicide by starving themselves to death, starts with a postshow discussion.… Read More Lippy at the Schaubühne Berlin
I always say there are two types of expats in Berlin; the language people – those who have a real interest in German, have studied it at university or work as translators – and the rest of us.… Read More Learn German the Berlin Way
The Last Supper by Ahmed El Attar, currently on as part of the Schaubühne’s Festival International New Drama (FIND), is a fascinating glimpse into the Egyptian bourgeois.… Read More The Last Supper at the Schaubühne Berlin
It is rumoured that Boris Lurie’s No!art movement got its name when a woman entered an exhibition on 10th street in New York, looked his Railroad to America collage (below), and ran out screaming “No! No! No!”… Read More No Compromises! The Art of Boris Lurie at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Fear Industry is not really a play. Rather, it is a montage of movement and sound building on one theme; fear.… Read More Fear Industry at the English Theatre Berlin
The Berlin Soundpainting Orchestra’s concert at Friedenskirche, a Baptist church in Charlottenburg with a history stretching back to 1897.… Read More Friedenskirche: A journey through space and time with the Berlin Soundpainting Orchestra
Friedrichstadt-Palast – the glitzy show palace in Mitte – recently hosted an illuminating discussion about German and British theatre…… Read More Palast-Talk: British Evening
An Englishman in Berlin 