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Else Lasker-Schüler’s Wild Rise as a Modern Performing Poet
It all began with a party in Berlin....
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Topper Sherwood
Spring Leaves: An Art Class with Johannes Itten and Yi Jing
Broad-thinking artist Johannes Itten designed the long-enduring curriculum of the Bauhaus School.
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Topper Sherwood
A Visit to Paul Klee's Studio
Klee shares his ideas about painting, children's art, his own legacy, and madness.
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Christmas in Weimar, 1919
Winter holiday unites students and faculty of the new, revolutionary Bauhaus School.
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November 2024

Coming Next: A 'Berlin Stories' Season of Re-runs
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." (Hunter S. Thompson)
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Artist Hans Gross: Recruited to fight in a 'cultural war'
He was hungry and desperate. He'd do anything to stay in the game.
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Blaming the Victim: The Shootings at Alexanderplatz and Chausseestrasse
During the German Revolution of 1918-19, violent incidents were politicized. Together with unwitting Social Democrats in government, right-wing military…
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Remembering John F. Kennedy in 1960: When American politicians were...different
This year's Democrat and Republican campaigns could have taken more cues from JFK's 1960 race in West Virginia.
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How Pro-Soviet Spies of the 'Red Orchestra' Laundered Money During WWII
It helped to have American friends in Switzerland.
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October 2024

The Unusual Musical Career of German-American Composer Stefan Wolpe
An enlightened Berlin child musician learns to play in the dark.
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Free-to-All Berlin Story: US Election, 2008
This is a video made by German-American journalist Topper Sherwood, documenting Berlin (Americans Abroad) reactions to official confirmation that Barack…
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Couples in Nazi resistance group maligned as 'Communists' after WWII
Recent media products are telling new, compelling stories about man-and-wife Berlin couples who dedicated their lives — and lost them — to resisting…
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