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‘Liebknecht’: A Tragedy
We follow a jailed Berlin lawyer / legislator as he excites German crowds with his passionate cries for renewed socialist, anti-war activism - then…
May 12
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‘(Y)our Mother’ holds unexpected lessons of liberation
Shown as part of the 16th annual Arab Film Festival Berlin, this is a fine documentary tribute to the Morroccan-Belgian filmmaker’s family — including…
May 5
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Crossroad of the 'Info Superhighway': Wrangling with AI in Berlin
Should we, as human-intelligence history-writers, allow machines to write our own stories?
Apr 28
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Crossroad of the 'Info Superhighway': Wrangling with AI in Berlin
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‘My Dark Brothers’: A Graphic Artist among Coal Miners
Prussian Countess Tisa von der Schulenburg linked arms with striking workers in Durham, England.
Apr 21
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‘My Dark Brothers’: A Graphic Artist among Coal Miners
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The education of an antifascist intelligence worker
Ten years before Hitler came to power, university student Hugo B- was examining the changing nature of journalism.
Apr 14
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The strange religious fundamentalism of Ludwig Christian Haeusser
The rise of a German doomsday preacher and "sex prophet"
Apr 7
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March 2025
Berlin's First Urban Rail System Got a 'Free Ride' from Mark Twain
America's most famous writer praised our horse-drawn mass transit - as ever, with the back of his hand....
Mar 31
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Berlin's First Urban Rail System Got a 'Free Ride' from Mark Twain
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The Student Uprising of Paris, 1968
German-French politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit describes a student-police confrontation that played-out then -- in Paris, as elsewhere -- just as it does…
Mar 24
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Personal notes: A song I've learned
Listen now | Topper Sherwood's recording of Steve Forbert's wonderful "Goin' Down to Laurel" - shared here with his gracious permission. Thank you…
Mar 17
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On being a refugee in Berlin
Syrians and other "new Berliners" today are experiencing something familiar to people who, at different times, came from places like Azerbaijan, Bosnia…
Mar 10
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1918: The roots of German anti-war intelligence
Hugo B- was an early student of journalism, watching his father's independent press feed the 1918 "November Revolution" that ended World War I.
Mar 3
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'Show me a country...'
Seems appropriate to send this today from Berlin, East and West - built on the ruins of the last European war....
Mar 1
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