A Brief Outline of Hygiene
Heidi Strobel is a film journalist and literary researcher. Since 2005 she has written on literature and film for various…
November 9th
I have been working at the Information Centre for a few months, and every half day I see about a…
Berlin Phnom Penh
For weeks here in Berlin we have been experiencing a South-East Asian climate, and I wonder if the typical Khmer…
Stabat Mater
On Saturday April 13th the Berlin Cathedral was full of people listening to the Stabat Mater by Antonín Dvořák. The…
The Far East
The Far East is a myth calling to mind a number of fantastic images: Marco Polo at the Court of…
In Search of Lost Air
Up until now we have tried to explore how the air of Berlin smells when it is looking toward an…
Mitte
Mitte means “center” and “center” is also the name of the central quarter of Berlin which once belonged to the…
Gentrified Kreuzberg, recalcitrant Kreuzberg, and the Kreuzberg that goes to work
Kreuzberg is more than a neighborhood. Whenever someone mentions Kreuzberg, they usually mean something else, and, quite often, they mean…
Lunch with the people and a smell of violets
When we get off the S-Bahn at Savigny Platz the air is no longer that of Grunewald, but we’re not…
Alter St. Matthäus Kirchhof (Old St. Matthews’ Churchyard)
A monumental stone gate with a cross split in the center and two urns to each side lead into the…
