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
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
If you find yourself walking down Prenzlauer Allee and see a massive burger where the planetarium should be – don’t panic. You aren’t suffering from one too many beers or hallucinatory hunger cravings.… Read More Celebrating the Burger’s 60th Birthday
Finding a good Italian restaurant is no easy task…… Read More Neighbourhood Italian: Mami Camilla
Yes, I’m one of the English people who live here, but I don’t do yoga or have children – phew!… Read More Song about Prenzlauer Berg, in German
The Bavarian and I have been very busy. One of the things we’ve been doing is conducting some research. A survey in fact, of burger places in Prenzlauer Berg…… Read More Top Five Burger Joints in Prenzlauer Berg
In England, you can stroll into a supermarket and pick up almost anything from star fruit to various Indian pickles, Quorn products, tortillas, short crust pastry and frozen, well, everything really. Here, I’ve had trouble at various times locating; canned chick peas (which are currently stocked in the exotic foods section at the Kaiser’s in… Read More Supermarkets, Socialism and Chocolate Biscuits
This promises to be a good evening: Writers read out a diverse range of literature in English (did I mention I’m organising it?) Come along! Visit our Facebook Event Page
Article in The Observer about gentrification in the east of Berlin…. I wrote a post on the subject over a year ago called The Anarchists of Friedrichshain
Thursday evening saw the first of a monthly poetry evening called Rage into the Night at St Gaudy Café, Prenzlauer Berg. Unlike most poetry events in Berlin, this was not a Poetry Slam – which tend to be open mic competitions with a strong focus on performance – but an altogether more sombre affair featuring a line-up of four quite well-known… Read More New poetry evening at St Gaudy Café
Preparations for the 1st May around the Schönhauser Allee area started a day early; shops boarded up their windows and a police presence in Mauer Park prevented anyone from carrying in glass bottles and weapons. The result was a festive atmosphere, a ratio of two policemen per civilian and a disconcerting absence of beer bottles. Today, contrary to my expectations, the atmosphere… Read More May Day, Schönhauser Allee
Yesterday, it felt like summer for the first time in the city and the Berliners were out doing what they do best; lounging around in parks, cafes and restaurants. In Prenzlauer Berg the place to be was Mauer Park, where people were playing frisbee, basketball, bowls, walking on tightropes, juggling, barbecuing, singing, dancing, making music, listening… Read More Summer in Berlin
They cannot be ignored any longer – the anarchists are demanding attention.… Read More The Anarchists of Friedrichshain
An Englishman in Berlin 