Unlike other Berlin guidebooks, City-Lit Berlin is a literary guide that encompasses 127 excerpts from texts about the city by no less than 69 writers. It seems an apt approach to getting to know this city, the most volatile capital in Europe for more than a century; a city of ghosts and of artists that has been so many things to so many people. The book… Read More Review: City-Lit Berlin
So Berlin Literature Festival has kicked off, and we’ve attended two very different events so far. On Wednesday evening Barbara Hammond read her dramatic monologue Eva the Chaste at Cafe Hilde. Eva has returned to Dublin after 20 years abroad to look after her dying mother. In that hour when night turns to dawn, Eva speaks… Read More Berlin LitFest: Barbara Hammond and Harald Martenstein
The 10th Berlin International Literature Festival begins tomorrow. Thirty-five writers, including Israel Bar Kohav, Wladimir Kaminer and Kate DiCamillo from twenty-one countries will take part in the festival in locations around Berlin over a period of 10 days. The main location for events will be the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and the programme consists of three main parts; Literature of the World,… Read More Berlin International Literature Festival
Berlin has been the inspiration and provided the setting for many novels. Here are my top ten! 10. Book of Clouds by Chloe Aridjis “Ever since arriving in Berlin I’d become a professional in lost time. It was impossible to account for all the hours. The hands on clocks and watches jumped ahead or lagged behind indiscriminately. The city ran… Read More Top Ten Berlin Novels
An Englishman in Berlin 