Yoga in English, Mondays in Kreuzberg

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What better way to kick off a healthy new year? Head down to the heart of the buzzing Wrangelkiez in Kreuzberg Monday evenings for this special Yoga class in English, started by BS2011 producer Anya Kinneavy. The class is held every Monday at 6.15pm, drawing a regular crowd of Berliners, resident internationals and visitors alike…. Read more »

A Pop-Up Art Book Store

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Our friend Max Erbe has just opened a pop-up Bargain Book Shop on Immanuelkirchstrasse 33 in Prenzlauerberg for December only. The Shop’s mix of ca. 2000 illustrated English-language and German books are from 5 to 50 EUR, with a few exceptions for special and collector’s editions.The spotlight is on art, architecture, photography, design, children’s books and… Read more »

The D-B Connection: Empty But Sexy

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Missed the first chapter of The Detroit-Berlin Connection on All Things Considered this morning? You can listen to Martina Guzman’s piece here.

The D-B Connection: Creative Thinking About Land Use

Biographies of D-B Connection Panelists

For more information on the participants in Thursday’s panel discussion at the U.S. Embassy, click on SEE FULL ARTICLE below.
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The D-B Connection: Mies van der Rohe


One of the trailers created by Martina Guzman and Veronica Zaragovia for The Detroit-Berlin Connection, the radio series coming up on Berlin Stories for NPR next week!

The Detroit-Berlin Connection: Dec 1st at the US Embassy

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Please join us at 16:00, Thursday December 1st, at the U.S. Embassy, Pariser Platz 2, for The Detroit-Berlin Connection, a panel discussion on urban renewal in post-industrial cities. The event is a celebration of our first collaboration with a U.S. NPR station, a series of the same name that will run on NPR Berlin 104.1FM next week during the morning broadcast of All Things Considered. You can also listen to the pieces on WDET’s website. Click here to read a great posting by Sugarhigh about it. … Read more »

Our Contributors: Julia Franck on Peter Krauskopf

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Berlin novelist Julia Franck has written the introduction for a new monograph of Berlin painter Peter Krauskopf’s work, in honor of a gorgeous exhibiton at the Walter Storms Galley in Munich. The introduction is in German and in English. Julia’s new novel, Rücken an Rücken, is out this month in German, next year… Read more »

Our Contributors: Elizabeth Skadden on GDR Cassette Culture


 

NPR Berlin: R. Jay Magill on The Benefits of Invisibility

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  R. Jay Magill Jr.’s new book, Sincerity: How a moral ideal born five hundred years ago inspired religious wars, modern art, hipster chic, and the curious notion that we all have something to say (no matter how dull) will be published by W.W. Norton in July 2012. Magill is a writer and illustrator whose… Read more »