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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  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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MC Jabber, the multi-award-winning poet, slam champion, comedian and vocalist from the UK and now based in Berlin, is living proof of why you should not give The Cat in the Hat to a five year-old. As the Independent newspaper put it, he is ‘The head-spinning king of high velocity philoso-rap’.

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Ashley Brandt is a freelance writer and playwright living in Berlin. Produced works include The Harvest Chamber, Prophecy of a Nameless Eskimo and Me, Myself and You in Cyberspace.

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From Madison,Wisconsin by way of Los Angeles, Brian Kapell is an actor, teacher and writer. He currently directs the comedy improvisation group ComedySportz Berlin, which is performed weekly at Kookaburra Comedy Club.

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Listen to the podcast above. Author Charly Wilder lives and works in Berlin. Her writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Salon and The International Herald Tribune and she writes regularly about travel and culture in Europe for the New York Times.
Photo by Elizabeth Skadden

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  Listen to the podcast above. Author Alistair Noon was born in 1970 and grew up near London. He first came to Berlin in 1989, and has lived in the city, bar a couple of years in China, since 1993. His poems have appeared in four chapbooks from various presses: At the Emptying of Dustbins (Oystercatcher, 2009), In People’s Park… Read more »

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  Berlin Stories is back with Season 3! Listen to the first new podcast of season above. Author Fiona Mizani has lived in Berlin since early 2000. She rents a cottage in Berlin- Schmöckwitz where she works as a translator and writes occasionally for soiledandseeded.com. She also runs the email newsletter The English Language Literary List…. Read more »

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  R. Jay Magill Jr.’s new book, Sincerity: How a moral ideal born five hundred years ago inspired religious wars, modern art, hipster chic, and the curious notion that we all have something to say (no matter how dull) will be published by W.W. Norton in July 2012. Magill is a writer and illustrator whose… Read more »

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  Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World was translated into more than forty languages. Awards his work has received include the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Heimito von Doderer Literature Award, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. This book, Fame: A Novel in Nine… Read more »

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