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 »
In this month’s Food & Wine is a feature article written by Berlin Stories editor Gisela Williams about the Berlin-based talent Malin Elmlid. Miss Elmlid, as she calls herself in her compelling blog, is an entrepreneurial spirit on the rise. We wouldn’t be surprised if her addictive homemade bread and fresh ideas change the world… Read more »
South African artist Nicky Broekhuysen hangs out on Emilie Trice’s couch, talking about her work, her process and her life in Berlin.
Musician and Photographer Elizabeth Skadden, a frequent Berlin Stories contributor, visited the abandoned Iraqi Embassy of the former GDR in Pankow last year. Please click on the image below to see a slide show of her gorgeous photographs accompanied by an essay in captions.
This week, U.S. Ambassador Philip Murphy warned Berliners against racism, after an African-American U.S. Embassy employee was harassed by racist hooligans at a Hertha soccer match. Read his speech here. This brings us back to the question of what is German, who is German, and how can these definitions be expanded to… Read more »
Finally a reason to look forward to cold weather: Emilie Trice will host a new webtv series, Berliner Salon for BSNPR. Intimate conversations with artists, writers, curators on her famous couch.
Tune in right here next week for the first couch session, with Nicky Broekhuysen.
New York artist Emily Hass, whose work was profiled on BSNPR in 2008, is included in the Jewish Museum’s first contemporary art show, commemorating the museum’s ten year anniversary, Heimatkunde. Hass’ mixed media work draws on archival architectural plans of her father’s family home on Altonaerstrasse, which was taken by the Nazis and subsequently destroyed during… Read more »
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 »
überlin bloggers Zöe Noble, Sarah Plunkett and James Glazebrook followed Berlin designer Hien Le for BSNPR during Fashion Week 2011. Part I: We first meet Hien Le two weeks before his show. His Kreuzberg studio, a space as minimal, clean and raw as the young Berliner’s designs, buzzes with activity. Despite the rails full… Read more »
