Originals: Sarah Blake on Darkness
Sarah Blake is the author of the novels, Grange House and The Postmistress, and while living in Berlin 2012-2013 has been working on her third.
Sarah Blake is the author of the novels, Grange House and The Postmistress, and while living in Berlin 2012-2013 has been working on her third.
Originals: Gideon Lewis-Kraus on a Sense of Direction
Gideon Lewis-Kraus has written about books and culture for Harper’s, Wired, the New York Times magazine, n+1, McSweeney’s, the London Review of Books, and other magazines and newspapers. His first book, A Sense of Direction, from which his story is here excerpted, is now out in paperback from Riverhead Books. Watch the trailer here. After… Read more »
Announcing The Berlin Stories Atlas Contest!
What’s Your Story? Write, edit and record your own Berlin Story Original (in English) and upload it to our SoundCloud group by the end of June. The winners will be broadcast on NPR Berlin and Worldwide. Your story should be about a personal experience or something that happened at a specific Berlin location. 500-600 words… Read more »
THE BS ATLAS CONTEST: Recording Directions
Those of you with sound or music experience will probably have microphones, earphones, special software, even access to a proper sound studio, to record your Berlin Story. But even if you are a novice, you can easily learn to do it on your own using the “voice memo”function on an iPhone. 1. Practice reading your… Read more »
Nick Simpson on Berlin Stories
To accompany all our podcasts on the website this season, we are thrilled to be running a series of photographs of the city taken by Nick Simpson, a British photographer. Since 2006 Nick has been building his own cameras, shooting on 4×5 large format film. No two identical photographs can be taken. Following an interest in… Read more »
Special Thanks to Jan Tillman Schade
The new season of Berlin Stories for NPR begins next Monday, May 20! This season was made possible by Jan Tilman Schade who graciously donated his recording studio and his time as sound engineer. We really enjoyed the days we spent in the studio with him and sitting in the verdant courtyard of his building, on… Read more »
Introducing: the Buenos Aires Review
We applaud the launch of the Buenos Aires Review, an online literary magazine curated by fellow storytellers in Argentina.
Mädels with a Microphone on Dutch Berlin
We are happy to present the first in a series of podcast collaborations with the Mädels with a Microphone, exploring different expat communities in Berlin. The Mädels with a Microphone is a podcasting series by local journalists Tam Eastley and Jennifer Collins. Together, they strive to create informative and quirky long and short… Read more »
Peter Krauskopf in Berlin Nov 2 to Dec 21
Last year, BS contributor Julia Franck wrote a beautiful intro to a new book of his work: Berlin painter Peter Krauskopf’s new exhibit “GRAU” is up now at Jochen Hempel in Mitte.
Big Plans for 2013
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