Berlin News in English Media

Inside Berlin’s Former Squats

The University Times / Ciannait Khan — Saturday, 12. January 2019

"It was years ago when I first visited Liebig 34, a building in Berlin that has been occupied since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. I had just moved to the city ..."

Art in Travel: The Berlin Wall’s East Side Gallery is a vital, timeless message

Queen's Journal / Brigid Goulem — Friday, 11. January 2019

"The street art gallery on the East Side of the Berlin Wall is caught between being an Instagram hot spot and a haunting memory of a divided city."

2020 Berlin Biennale Will Be Curated by María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, and …

ARTnews / Alex Greenberger — Monday, 29. October 2018

"The Berlin Biennale has named the curators for its 11th edition, which is set to open in the summer of 2020: María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette ..."

Berlin’s Newest Art Museum Opens — And It Doesn’t Disappoint

Architectural Digest / Nadja Sayej — Monday, 29. October 2018

"Berlin's palatial boulevard, Unter den Linden, makes for an impressive stroll—it's lined with stately rococo and baroque buildings. Now its latest ..."

German Start-ups Learn to Fall

New York Magazine / Lindsay Gellman — Monday, 29. October 2018

"On a July evening in 2016 at Factory Berlin, a sleek work space for technology entrepreneurs in the German capital, aspiring founders gathered in a ..."

2020 Berlin Biennale Will Be Curated by María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, and …

ARTnews / Alex Greenberger — Monday, 29. October 2018

"The Berlin Biennale has named the curators for its 11th edition, which is set to open in the summer of 2020: María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette ..."

Berlin draws crowds for Tempelhof art fair

euronews — Sunday, 28. October 2018

"Art Berlin features 120 galleries and is taking place inside the city's decommissioned Tempelhof airport. Berlin has the most art galleries after New .."

‘Oversaturated’ Berlin loses two more galleries

Art Newspaper / Laurie Rojas — Sunday, 28. October 2018

"Christian Siekmeier of Exile agrees, saying: “Berlin might be oversaturated and overfed.” Meanwhile, the city's idealistic belief in running galleries ..."

How a Berlin neighbourhood took on Google and won

Wired.co.uk / Victoria Turk — Friday, 26. October 2018

"Local campaigners, including a group dubbed Fuck Off Google, held protests around Berlin's Kreuzberg as the tech giant planned to open a new ..."

The door of Berlin nightclub Tresor is now an exhibit at a museum

Mixmag / Jamie Macwhirter — Thursday, 25. October 2018

"The Humboldt Forum, a new museum in the heart of Berlin, will display the legendary club's original door alongside centuries-old mosaics and ..."

Berlin Is a Masterpiece of a Graphic Novel

TheStranger.com / Rich Smith — Wednesday, 24. October 2018

"That feeling pervades former Seattle cartoonist Jason Lutes's exquisitely drawn historical graphic novel Berlin, which tracks the fall of the Weimar ..."

Google abandons Berlin base after two years of resistance

AFP in Berlin — Wednesday, 24. October 2018

"Campaigners in a bohemian district of Berlin are celebrating after the internet giant Google abandoned strongly opposed plans to open a large campus there …"

Senate’s ‘Re-Use Berlin’ campaign part of capital’s drive towards ‘zero waste’ policy

The Local Germany — Wednesday, 24. October 2018

"Could your junk be someone else's fortune? The Berlin Senate is encouraging people to think so as part of its mission to make the city more ..."

Looking Back to the ’90s, When Berlin Was the Height of Cool

New York Times / Christopher F. Schuetze — Tuesday, 23. October 2018

"BERLIN — Just as a visitor to New York might be disappointed to find a high-end clothing store where the notorious nightclub CBGB once stood, ..."

Remarkable Jewish museum in Berlin is reinventing itself

The Jerusalem Post / Ben G. Frank — Sunday, 21. October 2018

"Since I travel the world, I would like to add to the list one of the most remarkable museum buildings you will ever encounter: the Jewish Museum Berlin ..."

‘Poor but sexy’ no more: property boom drives out Berlin’s artists

Art Newspaper / Catherine Hickley — Tuesday, 09. October 2018

"Elke Kupfer, an artist who produces large-format collages using plastic bags, was forced out of her studio in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin in 2015."

Mapify, the Berlin-based ‘social travel network’, locates $1M seed round

TechCrunch / Steve O'Hear — Tuesday, 09. October 2018

"Mapify, the Berlin startup that offers what it describes as a “social travel network,” has raised $1 million in seed funding from a mixture of U.S. and ..."

Berlin startup offers €1m to save ancient Hambach forest from coal mining

The Guardian / Kate Connolly — Tuesday, 09. October 2018

"A non-profit Berlin tech startup has offered to buy the remaining 200 hectares of an ancient German forest to save it from being destroyed for coal ..."

Why Berlin’s vibrant culture is good for business

The Sydney Morning Herald / Andrew Taylor — Sunday, 07. October 2018

"Berlin has long been a magnet for artists and musicians such as David Bowie and Iggy Pop, who lived in the city's Schöneberg neighbourhood in the ..."

Berliner Luft: The minty liquor that saved a Berlin distillery

Handelsblatt Global Edition / Handelsblatt Staff — Sunday, 07. October 2018

"Just a few short years ago, Berlin-based distillery Schilkin was on the verge of insolvency. Today, the family-owned company is making record sales ..."

‘Babylon Berlin’ German Free TV Premiere Peaks With 8.5 Million Viewers

Hollywood Reporter / Scott Roxborough — Monday, 01. October 2018

"Nearly a year after its premiere on European pay TV network Sky and on Netflix worldwide, epic German period series Babylon Berlin finally debuted ..."

The top 10 European cities, according to what students want

Study International News / Study International Staff — Monday, 01. October 2018

"Berlin is the overall winner out of 44 university-cities. “Berlin has it all: strong universities with minimal tuition, affordable living, a socially open city and ..."

The City Where Artists Are Fighting Gentrification

HuffPost / Emily Manthei — Wednesday, 26. September 2018

"A block east of Alexanderplatz, a huge concrete piazza dotted with shopping outlets, a train station and the suspended globe of the TV ..."

How Berlin became one of Europe’s unlikeliest havens for vegans

Telegraph.co.uk / Andy Lynes — Monday, 24. September 2018

"Berlin has always been an open-minded place where creative people from all over the world come to live because it's cheap and easy to make a ..."

Why creative Brits love Berlin

The Times / Sally Howard — Sunday, 23. September 2018

"The British population in Berlin has risen by 83% since 2000, to 15,602 registered residents in December 2017. A number of theories have been ..."

How to understand Berlin through its landmarks with quirky nicknames

The Local Germany / Kai Lehmann — Thursday, 20. September 2018

"Berlin natives have nicknamed the capital's landmarks in rather unusual ways – reflecting both their unconventional appearances and what they say ..."

Berlin blockbuster: from the world’s oldest figurative art to sculptures bombed during the war

Art Newspaper / Catherine Hickley — Thursday, 20. September 2018

"More recent works include 16 sculptures vilified by the Nazis as “degenerate art” and hidden in a Berlin apartment that was destroyed in the Second ..."

Chilled drinking water to be supplied free in Berlin to curb plastic use

Lonely Planet Travel News / Andrea Smith — Wednesday, 19. September 2018

"If you're visiting Berlin and want to keep hydrated, it won't cost you anything to obtain water from one of approximately 100 additional public drinking ..."

The Best Way to Visit Berlin Is Through These Roaring 1920s Hot Spots

Architectural Digest / Nadja Sayej — Wednesday, 19. September 2018

"The Weimar Republic was Berlin's glory years. The Roaring Twenties as we know it was when the literature scene thrived, when jazz bands and ..."

How East German Punks Helped Destroy the Berlin Wall

Rolling Stone / Jerry Portwood — Monday, 17. September 2018

"American journalist and author Tim Mohr admits that when he first arrived in Berlin in 1992, he was clueless to the reality of what the post-Wall city ..."

Watch the full Sound of Berlin documentary

DJ Mag / Alex Flood — Thursday, 13. September 2018

""The whole German reunification actually took place on the dancefloor" — that's the declaration of a new film which documents self-appointed capital ..."

In a Changing Berlin, Artists Face Rising Costs and an Inflated Gender Pay Gap

Hyperallergic / Adela Yawitz — Monday, 10. September 2018

"The figures in a new survey by a Berlin artists' association point to the general struggle among artists to support themselves through art in a city that is ..."

Berlin’s new ride-share to run 80% electric

www.electrive.com / Chris Randall — Sunday, 09. September 2018

"The Berlin public transport operator BVG and Daimler subsidiary ViaVan have officially launched their ride-share program BerlKönig in Berlin. To start ..."

Berlin #1 as left-field cities prove popular

The PIE News / Patrick Atack — Friday, 07. September 2018

"According to this year's 'Best Student City' ranking by one of Europe's leading think tanks focused on the future of accommodation, Berlin is again the ..."

A Second Life for Berlin’s Plattenblau

CityLab / Feargus O'Sullivan — Thursday, 06. September 2018

"Berlin has decided on a novel location to host some of the new apartments the city badly needs—on top of the old ones. Yesterday, Berlin's Senate ..."

The ‘Hand with Watch’ Sculpture

Atlas Obscura — Wednesday, 05. September 2018

"Simply called “The Hand” by the locals, the “Hand with Watch” sculpture is one of Berlin's many iconic public sculptures by German artist Joachim ..."

As property booms, Berlin is a victim of its own success

Handelsblatt Global Edition — Wednesday, 05. September 2018

"“Berlin, Berlin, we're going to Berlin,” the popular German soccer song goes, alluding to an annual championship held in the city. The tune could just ..."

Pop-Kultur returned for another wonderfully diverse and eclectic Berlin excursion

Mixmag / Words: Geri Ceralda | Photos: Roland Owsnitzki, Camille Blake, Janto Djassi — Tuesday, 04. September 2018

"Returning for its fourth edition, Berlin-based festival Pop-Kultur set up shop in the Kulturbrauerei, previously one of the world's largest breweries."

Inflatables Draw Attention to Plastic Problem at Berlin Fashion Week

Papermag / Jasmine Ting — Wednesday, 29. August 2018

"Antwerp-based fashion brand Botter makes a unique, environment-centric, fashion statement at Berlin's Spring/Summer 2019 Fashion Week."

Berlin local’s cafe offers migrant drug dealers chance to get real job

Independent Online / Lee Mannion — Monday, 30. July 2018

"Nobody seems to mind the cannabis much; it is just accepted as the way things are in this hipster neighbourhood of Berlin, but after getting to know the .."

A floating university by Berlin firm Raumlabor explores the future of architecture schooling

Archinect / Hope Daley — Monday, 30. July 2018

"Created by architects Raumlabor, the Floating University in Berlin invites students and experts from all over the world to explore solutions for future ..."

Is Berlin’s gay population experiencing a backlash?

Irish Times / Derek Scally — Saturday, 28. July 2018

"Despite Berlin's largely liberal and tolerant culture, gay counselling and victim ... The progressive cultural shift is visible in Berlin's police force, once an ..."

The Berlin blockade – archive, 1948

The Guardian (blog) / compiled by Richard Nelsson — Friday, 27. July 2018

"Seventy years ago, the Soviet Union blocked supply routes to West Berlin. The Western Allies countered with an airlift of supplies in what became one ..."

Google not welcome in Bohemian Berlin district

The Business Times — Monday, 11. June 2018

"A wall with the words "Google, you snitch!" in Berlin's Kreuzberg district. Google's Berlin hub, due to open later this year, is set to be the latest outpost ..."

What it costs to live in Berlin

VICE News / Milena Mikael-Debass — Saturday, 09. June 2018

"Thanks partly to the former mayor dubbing Berlin “poor but sexy” back in 2003, the city has drawn a large community of creatives, including artists and ..."