Louise East on hair & techno

Image courtesy of consumer report.   Louise East is a freelance writer from Dublin who currently lives in Kreuzberg. For several years a staff writer with the Irish Times, she still writes for the paper on arts, books and travel (click here for her Berlin diary) and also contributes to Irish Theatre Magazine, The Gloss and… Read more »

Louise East on hair & techno

Image courtesy of consumer report.   Louise East is a freelance writer from Dublin who currently lives in Kreuzberg. For several years a staff writer with the Irish Times, she still writes for the paper on arts, books and travel (click here for her Berlin diary) and also contributes to Irish Theatre Magazine, The Gloss and… Read more »

Originals: Mark von Schlegell on Another Country

Michael Moorcock and Alan Moore, courtesy of Mark von Schlegell.   Contemporary writer  Mark von Schlegell is a dual Irish and American citizen. He was born in New York and lives in Cologne, Germany. He is the author of the novels Venusia (2005) and Mercury Station (2009) published by M.I.T./Semiotext(e). Venusia was honor’s… Read more »

Originals: Chris Harvey on the Last Days of Disco

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photo courtesy of Chris Harvey
 
Chris Harvey spent 2008-2009 in Berlin on a Fulbright fellowship for fiction writing. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Third Coast, Fourteen Hills, the San Francisco Weekly, and other publications.

Originals: Stefan Sirucek on Nouveau-Riche Wankers


photo courtesy of thinknowyes.com
 
Stefan Sirucek is a freelance journalist and writer who can generally be found somewhere between Boston and Berlin.  He is a regular contributor of news and opinion pieces to the Huffington Post.

Originals: Ralph Martin on the christmas spirit

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photo courtesy of wf-foto-aktuell.de   Ralph Martin is a writer and journalist who has lived in Berlin since 2003. His book EIN AMERIKANER IN BERLIN: WIE EIN NEW YORKER LERNTE, DIE DEUTSCHEN ZU LIEBEN, was published at the end of 2009 by Dumont Verlag. His forthcoming book about fatherhood in contemporary Germany, LULU UND ICH, will appear… Read more »

Originals: Ari Gold on Lost Opportunities

Image Gold as Power, East Berlin by Markus Bachmann   Ari Gold’s first feature film “Adventures of Power,” an epic comedy about the American dream and air-drumming, won best-of-festival prizes at 8 film festivals, and is currently in limited release in the U.S..  Ari was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 Faces to Watch” after having… Read more »