Originals: Rachel Doyle on Laundromat Chatter

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Photograph by Laura's Laundromat

  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 »

Originals: Hilda Hoy on Horticulture

Photo by Michelle Cormier

Photo by Michelle Cormier

  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 »

Originals: CJ Hopkins on the Holographic Hitler Projector

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Photograph by costumebox.com

  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 »

Originals: Victoria Gosling on Taking It All Off

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Photograph from sixthman.net


 
Victoria Gosling is the current editor of Berlin Stories Originals. She is a writer, editor and teacher. Since 2009 she has been working as The Reader Berlin, offering author and publishing services. Since 2012, she is also very excited to be a part of Lovegrove & Gosling, Central Europe’s first English language literary consultancy.

Originals: Alicia Oltuski on Someone Else’s Promised Land

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  Alicia Oltuski’s first book, Precious Objects, was published by Scribner and selected as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming on NPR’s Berlin Stories, in the Financial Times, W magazine, The Faster Times, The Bulletin in Philadelphia, and other publications. She holds an MFA… Read more »

Originals: Delavan Trice on a Requiem for Gallerina

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Delavan Trice is an independent curator and writer.

Originals: Nate Barron on German Bread

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Nathaniel Barron lives in Philadelphia and works as a freelance translator.  He just got back from a five-year stint in Berlin, where he developed a healthy appreciation for paprika-flavored chips and extended eye contact with strangers.  He is currently working on a novel about small-town America and the sex cam industry. His website is here.

Originals: Anthony Hills on Behind the Lines

Photograph by Elizabeth Skadden

Photograph by Elizabeth Skadden


 
Anthony Hills is English and lives in Berlin, where he is teaching, translating, and doing a bit of writing.

Originals: Joshua Ellison on Deutsch in the Mirror

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Joshua Ellison is the editor of Habitus: A Diaspora Journal, a magazine of international Jewish culture and literature, and founding partner of Restless Books, a soon-to-be-launched digital imprint. His work as a journalist, essayist, and photographer has appeared in books and periodicals from Belfast to Beijing.

Originals: Prune Antoine on Saving the Germans

Photograph from eaglehorse.org

Photograph from eaglehorse.org

  Antoine, 30, lives, loves and writes in Berlin since she broke up with Paris, four years ago. Her printed and multimedia stories, featured in Eastern Europe, Balkans or Turkey have been published in Le Monde Magazine, Elle, Madame Figaro, amongst many others. In 2010, her reportages received the Prix Louise Weiss and the European Young Journalist Award…. Read more »