The Jewish Museum Berlin is a disorientating place. It is made up of various buildings from different periods, most recently The Libeskind building. Continue reading
The Wall Museum at the East Side Gallery, which opened last year, is situated in the same building that houses the Pirates Bar. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) was a Berlin-based artist, most famous for chronicling life in the city during the 1920s. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Berlin Ninja asks, “What would Berlin look like with a superhero or villain in it?” Follow @berlinninja on Instagram. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Berlin Ninja asks, “What would Berlin look like with a superhero or villain in it?” Follow @berlinninja on Instagram.
Berlin has often been termed the sex capital of the world, famous for its sexually liberal attitude, vibrant gay scene, sex parties and clubs. Continue reading
The Friday Image: Where Did You Hide the Sun? by Sandy Di Yu Continue reading
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. Continue reading
When I think about where I came from and all I can remember is waiting for the bus a lot… Continue reading
When people first settled in the Neukölln, the district in the very south of Berlin, it was like a new colony, hence the name… Continue reading
Last night, Berlin-based author Ryan Ruby read from his debut novel The Zero and the One at Shakespeare and Sons bookshop in Friedrichshain. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Funny video pitching Berlin as a startup… Continue reading
Sandy Di Yu is a Berlin-based artist. For more, check out her Instagram.
Sandy Di Yu is a Berlin-based artist. For more, check out her Instagram.
Álvaro Sendra González rounds up a choice list of English-speaking bookshops in Neukölln. Continue reading
Friday evening saw the English Theatre Berlin’s staged reading of Informed Consent by Deborah Zoe Laufer. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Bernhard Vierling has been a working artist in Berlin since 1986… Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Museum overnights have become well-established, but I had never heard of a sleepover at a theatre venue before… Continue reading
Street Artist Tobo is a Berliner who has been tagging the city since he was eight years old. Continue reading
Travellers tell tales around camp fires, late into the night when nothing else is stirring… Continue reading
Stunned. There’s nothing else to say about Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. Continue reading
Berlin Glas e.V. offers glass-making courses which will ensure you never look at glass the same way again… Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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!” Continue reading
Fear Industry is not really a play. Rather, it is a montage of movement and sound building on one theme; fear. Continue reading
The Berlin Soundpainting Orchestra’s concert at Friedenskirche, a Baptist church in Charlottenburg with a history stretching back to 1897. Continue reading
Friedrichstadt-Palast – the glitzy show palace in Mitte – recently hosted an illuminating discussion about German and British theatre… Continue reading
This Friday, 29th January, I will be reading at Inkblot Berlin at the English Theatre. Come along… Continue reading
“You have both been – obviously wrongly – locked in an asylum,” says Toby.
I cast a sideways glance at the Bavarian, who could probably quite legitimately be sent to a mad house. Continue reading
The plethora of street art in the middle of the city will snake around your mind and grab you. Continue reading
Lukas is a musical with a difference; modern, minimalist, set in Berlin. Continue reading
A hundred years ago, on 25th November 1915, Einstein proved his general theory of relativity, transforming our understanding of physical reality. Continue reading
There’s no place like time is an art exhibition with a twist. Continue reading
I am loath to say anything critical about Daniel Sloss because he started yesterday night’s show at Berlin’s Quatsch Comedy Club by reading out the last letter of complaint he received. Continue reading
Think An English Man in Berlin on PMS instead of Hunter S Thompson on acid… Continue reading
In ancient Rome, the term ‘Genius’ Loci existed, the ‘soul of the place.’ The soul of the city spoke to its inhabitants in the shape of a snake. Continue reading
Mars One – Venus Zero is the funny, provocative one-and-a-half-man show currently on at the English Theatre Berlin. Continue reading
