In our upcoming summer episode, Anna Winger interviews German actor Tyron Ricketts about the use of blackface in German theater, in which white actors are routinely “painted” to play black roles. Ricketts is one of the most successful black actors in Germany, having played a Kommissar for many years on the popular ZDF crime series… Read more »
Leah Stuhltrager (American, b. 1975) is a curator and project manager known for championing art incorporating technology. After receiving a BA/BFA and an MS, Stuhltrager opened one of the first galleries in Williamsburg, Brooklyn – a neighborhood she helped escalate into an international art mecca. Stuhltrager has curated and managed public art projects for some… Read more »
Prior to her years in diplomatic life, Helen Kornblum worked professionally as a translator and analyst for the US Congress, Helsinki Watch and Time magazine. She currently leads a group focused on design for Willkommen in Berlin, a German Foreign Office-sponsored organization serving diplomatic families posted in the capital. Her commentary on American politics has… Read more »
Becky Crook is a writer, editor, freelance translator, and creative consultant from Seattle who has lived in Berlin since 2008. Her poetry and creative essays have been published among others in Geez, The Other Journal, and in two anthologies. In May 2010, she co-founded SAND, Berlin’s English Literary Journal, and now works as editor-in-chief for the biannual… Read more »
Molly Hannon is a freelance writer based in Berlin who hails from Virginia. She holds a Bachelors degree in Political Science specializing in the Middle East and a Master’s degree in gastronomy and communications from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy, where she leads a seminar on 20th-century food literature and its relationship to… Read more »
Miriam Widman has more years of experience as a journalist than she cares to admit. In print she’s written for the International Herald Tribune, Business Week, The Local , Spiegel Online and Jewish Voice from Germany. In radio she’s produced for National Public Radio, Marketplace and The World. She recently performed one of her… Read more »
Rachel B. Doyle is travel writer and author based in Berlin, and a regular contributor to the New York Times and New York magazine. She is working on her first novel, a globalization satire set in Tennessee. In 2009, she co-wrote a cultural history book about the USA that was published by National Geographic Germany and… Read more »
Hilda Hoy grew up between the concrete jungles of Taiwan and the woods of central Ontario. A one-time hard-boiled news reporter for the Toronto Star and the Prague Post, she now fills her days working as the managing editor of sugarhigh, the Berlin email magazine she’s been heading since its founding in 2009. When not freelancing… Read more »
CJ Hopkins began writing for the stage in New York City in the 1990s. His plays have been commissioned and produced internationally, have won awards in the UK and Australia, and are published by Methuen Drama (Horse Country) and Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. (screwmachine/eyecandy, The Extremists). In 2004, he relocated to Berlin, where he lives… Read more »
