We named our radio show for Christopher Isherwood, but perhaps he named his book for Robert Walser. The original local expat author? Click here to read a letter from translator Susan Bernofsky about Walser’s move to from Switzerland to Berlin at twenty-seven, in 1905. Her new translation is just out in English and available in Berlin… Read more »
What better way to kick off a healthy new year? Head down to the heart of the buzzing Wrangelkiez in Kreuzberg Monday evenings for this special Yoga class in English, started by BS2011 producer Anya Kinneavy. The class is held every Monday at 6.15pm, drawing a regular crowd of Berliners, resident internationals and visitors alike…. Read more »
Our friend Max Erbe has just opened a pop-up Bargain Book Shop on Immanuelkirchstrasse 33 in Prenzlauerberg for December only. The Shop’s mix of ca. 2000 illustrated English-language and German books are from 5 to 50 EUR, with a few exceptions for special and collector’s editions.The spotlight is on art, architecture, photography, design, children’s books and… Read more »
Missed the first chapter of The Detroit-Berlin Connection on All Things Considered this morning? You can listen to Martina Guzman’s piece here.
For more information on the participants in Thursday’s panel discussion at the U.S. Embassy, click on SEE FULL ARTICLE below.
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One of the trailers created by Martina Guzman and Veronica Zaragovia for The Detroit-Berlin Connection, the radio series coming up on Berlin Stories for NPR next week!
Please join us at 16:00, Thursday December 1st, at the U.S. Embassy, Pariser Platz 2, for The Detroit-Berlin Connection, a panel discussion on urban renewal in post-industrial cities. The event is a celebration of our first collaboration with a U.S. NPR station, a series of the same name that will run on NPR Berlin 104.1FM next week during the morning broadcast of All Things Considered. You can also listen to the pieces on WDET’s website. Click here to read a great posting by Sugarhigh about it. … Read more »
Berlin novelist Julia Franck has written the introduction for a new monograph of Berlin painter Peter Krauskopf’s work, in honor of a gorgeous exhibiton at the Walter Storms Galley in Munich. The introduction is in German and in English. Julia’s new novel, Rücken an Rücken, is out this month in German, next year… Read more »
