Rosemary’s Baby still courtesy of Paramount.

Kim Wood is a writer, filmmaker, and photographer who grew up in Hollywood and lived in San Francisco and New York before making Berlin her home. Her films, based upon the histories of relatively unknown adventurers and eccentrics, have screened internationally in festivals and museums, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Guggenheim Museum. Her upcoming novel, Flirting with Death, is based upon the life of a Kansas farm girl turned world-famous motorcycle daredevil Lillian La France. For more information about Wood’s work please visit her website.

Bringing Up Baby still from RKO.

Alexander Privitera is a television journalist. He is currently the US correspondent for the German news channel N24. He is also a frequent contributor to the Washington DC-based think tank AICGS and sometimes appears on Fox News and MSNBC. His career includes five years as N24 anchor in Berlin, stints as European Correspondent for N-TV in Brussels and as a political correspondent in Bonn, and a previous tenure as US correspondent for N24, from 1998 to 2004. In 2009, he returned to Washington DC where he now lives with his wife and three children. Alexander was born in Rome, Italy 45 years ago and has a degree in political science from the Roman University „La Sapienza“.

Photograph by Maja Smend.

Cynthia Barcomi was born in Seattle and educated in New York, at Columbia University. She moved to Berlin in 1985 as a professional dancer and opened up her first shop, Barcomi’s, in Kreuzberg, in 1994.  She has since opened a deli in Mitte, written three cookbooks and created a whole world of baking recipes and videos for Schwartau. Recipe for Cynthia’s chocolate cherry muffins available here.

Photo courtesy of Geo Reise Community.

Michael Scott Moore was a 2006-2007 Fulbright fellow in Berlin, where he edits and writes for Spiegel Online. His first novel, Too Much of Nothing, was published by Carroll & Graf in 2003. His new book, Sweetness and Blood, a work of folk history and travel about the spread of surfing, is forthcoming from Rodale Books. He’s the European Dispatch columnist for Miller-McCune magazine in California, and he’s written about politics and travel for The Atlantic Monthly, The Financial Times, Slate, Salon, and the Los Angeles Times.

Photograph by the author.

Aura Rosenberg lives and works in New York City and Berlin with her husband John Miller and their daughter Carmen. Hatje Cantz published her book Who Am I? What Am I? Where Am I? last year.  Other publications include Berliner Kindheit (Berlin Childhood) published by Steidl Verlag and Head Shots published by Stop Over Press. She is also the creator of the Siegesaule Project. She is represented by Sassa Trülzsch Gallery. For more information, please go to her website.

This is an excerpt from the novel This Must Be the Place, by Anna Winger, which takes place in Charlottenburg during the dreary Christmas season of 2001. It used is with permission from Riverhead Books (Penguin Group) and read by the actor Harvey Friedman. Published in 2008, the novel is now out in paperback. For more information, please go to the author’s website.

Anna Winger is a writer and photographer whose personal essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Image from I am NOT the Beastmaster.

Olaf Tischbier grew up in Lower Saxony reading American comic books.  Now he is a tv, commercial, and film editor in Berlin where he has lived since 1994.  He still reads comics.

Photograph by Carlos Barria/Reuters.

Rose-Anne Clermont, a Haitian-American writer and journalist first came to Berlin on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1998.  Her writing has appeared in International Herald Tribune, Die Zeit, Spiegel Online, The Root and The Women’s International Perspective and on her blog, Currents Between Shores.  Her memoir, Buschgirl, will be published in German by Random House/C. Bertelsmann in fall 2010. Rose-Anne lives in an old red row house with her German husband and three sons and helps support 22 other children at The Clermont Center for Homeless Children in Jacmel, Haiti.

Painting courtesy of Liat.

David Sornig was born and raised in Melbourne and Germany and is now based in Adelaide where he lectures in creative writing at Flinders University. His fiction, non-fiction and criticism have appeared in Griffith Review, New Matilda, Antipodes, The Age and elsewhere. In 2008 he was awarded the Charles Pick Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. His novel Spiel follows an architect’s apocalyptically charged journey through Melbourne and Berlin. He is writing a follow-up about a family at the coalface of climate change and sometimes updates his blog at www.davidsornig.wordpress.com

Image by Massimo Vitali, courtesy of Bonni Benrubi Gallery.

Mary Rozell is Director of Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York. While living in Berlin for almost a decade, she was the correspondent for The Art Newspaper and a curator of contemporary art.  She has written and lectured extensively about Berlin’s emerging art scene and architectural landscape, and is the author of numerous journal articles, catalog essays, and translations. For more, please visit her website.