Chag Sameach! In this piece from the New York Times Magazine, written in 2006, BS host Anna Winger reflected on celebrating Passover with her family in their Berlin apartment, once inhabited by another Jewish family who left paintings of fairytale characters on the walls of her daughter’s room. In the years since the piece was written,… Read more »
Our new season of Berlin Stories Originals starts on April 16. To kick off the new season we are rolling out our new, expanded Berlin Stories, a one hour radio magazine of art, culture and daily life in Berlin. The new show is hosted by Gisela Williams and Anna Winger and will premiere on NPR Berlin… Read more »
Do you think Mitte has become too fancy? Too mainstream? This weekend Charly Wilder celebrates homegrown talent in the center of Berlin with a slide show in the Times travel section, here. If you missed Charley’s piece on the radio last season, listen to it now!
Congratulations to our girl Martina Guzman for winning not only an Associated Press award for best radio series, but also a Michigan Associated Broadcasters award for best series, for her The Detroit-Berlin Connection, broadcast here on Berlin Stories for NPR late last year! And to all everyone at WDET in Detroit who helped make Guzman’s… Read more »
In today’s NY Times, an article about Canadian author Peter Behrens’ winter idyll in Marfa, the Texas artists village made famous by Donald Judd. Behrens’ new novel The O’Brian’s comes out this week from Pantheon. And if you missed Behrens’ Berlin Story on NPR Berlin last season (special thanks to Marfa public radio station KTRS… Read more »
Very happy to announce that Berlin Stories for NPR has finally found a place to call home and build a real recording studio, at the extraordinary new art house THE WYE! Fond as times have been in Ralph Martin’s closet, Gisela Williams’ basement and other fine makeshift places during the last four seasons, we are… Read more »
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.
