If you missed our Summer episode on NPR Worldwide this past week, now you can listen to the whole thing here. Hosted by Anna Winger and Gisela Williams and produced by Bilal Qureshi, our second one-hour Berlin Stories looks at why it has been so hard to get Berlin’s new airport off the ground. We… Read more »
In our Summer episode, airing this weekend as the city heads towards fashion week, we explore the economic challenges facing Berlin’s young fashion designers. No one knows their ups and downs like Melissa Drier, the Women’s Wear Daily correspondent in Germany, who has been covering the Berlin fashion scene for more than 20 years. The ultimate… Read more »
What do blogger Luisa Weiss, man about town Moritz Estermann and founder of Chef’s Table Sebastian Wussler all have in common? Food of course. And preferably good food. They are also the first guests on Berlin Stories new series: The Round Table Restaurant Review, where host Gisela Williams invites three Berliners to a meal and… Read more »
In our Summer episode, Bilal Qureshi hears the Berlin Philharmonic’s Albrecht Mayer play at the legendary nightclub Berghain. The concert was part of Deutsche Grammophone’s Yellow Lounge series, which aims to bring classical music to a whole new generation of listeners. There are Yellow Lounge concerts in cities all over the world, from London to… Read more »
In our upcoming summer episode, Anna Winger interviews German actor Tyron Ricketts about the use of blackface in German theater, in which white actors are routinely “painted” to play black roles. Ricketts is one of the most successful black actors in Germany, having played a Kommissar for many years on the popular ZDF crime series… Read more »
Berlin is still a city of unusual collaborations: a galerist works with a restauranteur to dream up a project like the Jewish Girls School or a baker might work with a musician to organize a bread and jazz Sunday. The farmer Rolf Henke, whose farm Gut Temmen is located within one of Germany’s largest stretches… Read more »
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Berlin-based British novelist Priya Basil, who is interviewed by Bilal Qureshi in our one-hour Berlin Stories show, created a series of videos in conjunction with a novella she wrote a couple of years ago, called Strangers on the 16:02. Many authors these days make video “trailers” to promote their books, a trend that has produced… Read more »
