Listen to the podcast above. Author Eoin Hahessy is the recipient of an Irish national young writer’s award and is a freelance journalist with the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and Business & Finance in Ireland. Before leaving Dublin to travel to Berlin he reported for Newstalk radio and a few years prior to… Read more »
Robert A. LeVine is an anthropologist and professor emeritus at Harvard University. His most recent book is Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-Cultural Reader (2008). He lives in Massachusetts but often visits his granddaughter in Berlin. Please click here to watch a music video of the Hans Beimler song on YouTube! Portrait of Hans Beimler courtesy… Read more »
As Berlin upgrades its chameleon wardrobe toward something more sophisticated, it’s tempting to find its bohemian foundations provincial or quaint—in any case, relegated to the pile marked, “donations.” But such a linear notion of progress belies this city’s iconoclastic nature. Berlin is a humane place, scaled for human beings. This is clear to anyone who… Read more »
On the rare late fall day when blue sky pierces Berlin’s chronic dark gray, I bike across the river from my Friedrichshain neighborhood to Treptower Park. Unlike Tiergarten, whose lovely ponds and clumps of flora are constantly interrupted by city streets, the paths in Treptower Park stretch luxuriously for miles, like a good long yawn. … Read more »
This is actually a eulogy, for a cafe on Knesebeckstrasse that closed last year. It was called The Kitchen. The food was delicious. The proprietress, Patricia Ferer, a warm and wonderful person from St. Louis via New York City, was always welcoming. But it was more than that. Sometimes the stars align such that a… Read more »
The phrase “poor but sexy” has become one of the more tiresome clichés about Berlin, even if there are stretches of Kreuzberg south of the Landwehr Canal that still live up to it. More typical of our hometown’s herky-jerky efforts to be modern and glamorous is Holmes Place, the wannabe upscale gym right off Gendarmenmarkt…. Read more »
The phrase “poor but sexy” has become one of the more tiresome clichés about Berlin, even if there are stretches of Kreuzberg south of the Landwehr Canal that still live up to it. More typical of our hometown’s herky-jerky efforts to be modern and glamorous is Holmes Place, the wannabe upscale gym right off Gendarmenmarkt…. Read more »
