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 »
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 »
Geoffery Lewis always wanted to write political history or biography, ever since he read history at Cambridge. But legal practice, being a jealous god, prevented it until he retired from office work in 1993. Since then he has written four books: 1. Lord Atkin (Butterworths, London 1983). A biography of an English judge whose name is a byword… Read more »
Following up on our post a few weeks ago about the German Haus Frau Complex, an article in Spiegel this week further elaborates on the problems women experience in the workplace here in Germany and how that relates to the very low birthrate. What have been your experiences as women working in Germany? And as… Read more »
If you missed the German writer Peter Scheider’s Op-Ed about the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall in the New York Times this Sunday, you can read it here. Meanwhile, if you haven’t read his incredible 1980 novel The Wall Jumper, which paints an unparalleled portrait of the divided city, and was reissued… Read more »
German novelist Julia Franck was born in Berlin in 1970. THE BLINDNESS OF THE HEART, which will be published in more than thirty-five countries and has sold over 800,000 copies in Germany alone, is her first novel to be translated into English. To buy it please visit Dialogue Books at Schonleinstrasse 31.
Photo by Mimi Levy Lipis Leo Lipis grew up in the Jewish community of Atlanta. After completing a Ph.D. in philosophy in New York, he turned his attention to semi-professional singing and management consulting and, later, to raising a family. After moving to Berlin in 2001, he founded his own consulting business specializing on payment… Read more »
A fascinating article in the New York Times this week discusses the lack of women in positions of influence in the German workforce and the chronic problem getting German mothers to return to work, despite recent legislation meant to encourage exactly this. It says that only 14% of women with one child go back to work… Read more »
Shortly before midnight New York time on June 24, 2011–and 6am Berlin time the following morning–New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a marriage equality bill that granted gays and lesbians the right to wed. A few hours later, Berlin hosted its annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride parade whose roots stretch to another New… Read more »
