Artist Aura Rosenberg has many talents. Recently on a balmy evening in the courtyard of Kunst Werke, she entertained friends on the keyboards with her country band, Dirty Mirrors, a roving crew of artist-musicians who perform in different constellations both here and in New York. Friday night’s group included Rosenberg’s husband, the artist John Miller, and the graphic designer Frank Lutz. If you missed Rosenberg’s Berlin Story about the early days of Kunst Werke on NPR last year, listen to it now…
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  Geoffery Lewis always wanted to write political history or biography, ever since he read history at Cambridge. But legal practice, being a jealous god, prevented it until he retired from office work in 1993. Since then he has written four books: 1. Lord Atkin (Butterworths, London 1983). A biography of an English judge whose name is a byword… Read more »

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Introducing our kitchen visits series…click below to see all the photos of Claudia’s kitchen! NAME: Claudia Hampel OCCUPATION: Director of Stilfactorei, a mail-order business for home decor NEIGHBORHOOD: Small village in the Brandenburg countryside, a half hour west of Berlin WHAT DID YOU EAT TODAY? Salad from my garden and a homemade tarte au… Read more »

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  Ruth Elkins moved to Berlin in 2002 to get away from one bad man and to forget another. She spent her time in the city reading Shakespeare in the Tiergarten with Wagner experts and former spies and watching her next-door neighbour Hans try to save on heating bills by sleeping in front of the kitchen oven…. Read more »

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Max S. here, just back from my summer travels to remind us all how good we’ve got it in Berlin. Stop complaining people! So the rents are going up. But it’s still cheap. There is still tons of space. (Move to Wedding if you must.) Maybe the tourists are starting to outnumber the bohemians,… Read more »

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  Peter Behrens’ first novel, The Law of Dreams, won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, Canada’s most prestigious book prize, in 2006. Kevin Baker in the New York Times Book Review called it “Absorbing, unsparing and beautifully written…a masterly novel”. His new novel The O’Briens will be published this year by House of… Read more »

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The Guardian in the UK just published its on-line city guide to Berlin. While some of the choices seem kind of obvious or random, there is some good stuff and fun multimedia. We especially enjoyed Thomas Höpker‘s photos from the GDR (including the genius one above of toilet time at a Kita) and the guide to weekend brunch by our very own Luisa Weiss. Check out the whole Guardian guide HERE…. Read more »

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  J.L. Sirisuk is a US/UK based writer, educated in New York, Oxford, and Manchester. She writes drama and humor with the ultimate goal of making people laugh and cry simultaneously. Currently in the works is a play about Mann entitled ‘The Magician’ which she hopes to stage in either New York or Berlin…. Read more »

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Thomas Farr, originally from the U.S., has been in Berlin for the past 35 years. He is a photographer, actor, stand up comedian and writer of poetry in English. When not doing all of the above, he plays softball in two leagues and flies kites for stress management.

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Following up on our post a few weeks ago about the German Haus Frau Complex, an article in Spiegel this week further elaborates on the problems women experience in the workplace here in Germany and how that relates to the very low birthrate. What have been your experiences as women working in Germany? And as… Read more »

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