When walking my daughter’s dog in Charlottenburg, I enjoy examining the plaques on buildings. My favorite is the one marking the building on Mommsenstraße where Hanns Sachs lived from 1920 to 1932. Sachs was a Viennese lawyer who was trained by Freud and became a member of his inner circle. Karl Abraham, another early student… Read more »
Photo courtesy of destination360.com This is the first in our series of essays written by German writers about America. Thomas Pletzinger was born in 1975 and grew up in Germany’s industrial area Ruhrgebiet. He holds an M.A from Hamburg University and an MFA from the German Literature Institute Leipzig. He worked for publishers… Read more »
Portrait of Eisler above courtesy of the International Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft. Eric Banks is a writer based in New York. While at Columbia in the late 1980s, he had a radio show on WKCR. He has since written for The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New York Times, and the Chronicle of Higher… Read more »
Ralph Martin is a writer and journalist living in Prenzlauer Berg. He has written for the New York Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, GQ, and other publications; his book Ein Amerikaner in Berlin, a comic ‘gonzo memoir’ in ten chapters of German-American culture shock, will appear on August 24 from Dumont Verlag. Visit his website at… Read more »
EIN AMERIKANER IN BERLIN, Berlin Stories Editorial Director Ralph Martin’s very funny book about how he learned to to love all things Deutsch, is published in German by Dumont Verlag. EIN AMERIKANER…is the nonfiction tale of an ex-New Yorker who moves to Berlin, settles down, and to his sometimes horrified fascination, becomes German. Ten… Read more »
The image above is taken from Scrima’s installation Shelf Life. Andrea Scrima is an artist and writer from New York who has been living in Berlin for much of her adult life. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts and the Hochschule der Künste, she has been the recipient of numerous grants and… Read more »
Eve Lucas grew up in England and has a degree in French and German from King’s College London and a Masters in Art History from the University of Maryland. She has lived in Berlin since returning to Germany from Washington DC in 2003 and works as a book critic and journalist for English-language magazines based… Read more »
Alicia Oltuski received her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and has taught memoir writing at the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia. Her book about diamonds, The Movement of Precious Objects, is forthcoming from Scribner.
Image courtesy of Keith Mallett Rose-Anne Clermont, a New York native, first came to Berlin in 1998 as a Fulbright fellow, after earning a Master’s Degree in journalism from Columbia University. Her articles and essays have appeared in International Herald Tribune, Spiegel on-line, The Root, The Women’s International Perspective and Die Zeit. She lives… Read more »
Stephanie Snider received her MFA from the Yale School of Art, and her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited widely, including exhibitions at the Bronx Museum, NY, the Hudson River Museum in New York, Galerie Thomas Schulte Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin and others. She was the recipient of… Read more »
