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Photo Exhibition: Creative Concrete Housing for All!
As so much public money is going to war-not-peace, our own Berlin-not-Paris creatives can be the first-not-last to cash (it) in -- but in true…
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German Tolerance for Wartime Refugees and the new 'Melting Pot'
In 2015, Berlin made room for thousands of Syrians, welcomed to Germany/EU by Chancellor Merkel. Today, those wartime refugees are de facto reporters…
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A 'Bauhaus Evening' with Inayat Khan
Sending Inayat Khan out into the world, his teacher told him to try to harmonize his music and poetry with whatever cultures he might find 'out there…
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May 2025

Raising a carny for Steglitz Festival Week
A photo-gallery exhibition of workers installing rides & booths for good, clean fun...
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Take Heart! Wolf Biermann's 'Ermutigung'
A song he wrote in 1976 takes on new relevance today.
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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…
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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…
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April 2025

Crossroad of the 'Info Superhighway': Wrangling with AI in Berlin
Should we, as human-intelligence history-writers, allow machines to write our own stories?
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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.
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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.
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The strange religious fundamentalism of Ludwig Christian Haeusser
The rise of a German doomsday preacher and "sex prophet"
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March 2025

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