Berlin Stories

Home
Podcast
Notes
"Truppe31" Geschichte auf Deu…
Archive
Leaderboard
About

January 2025

Intellectual 'Sunday Circle' of artists comes to power in Hungary
After their brief reign, they generally slipped away to the West -- to the West's benefit.
 • 
Topper Sherwood
Berlin's harsh reality and Alfred Döblin’s utopian hope for a cure
“Writers are not self-generating…. I come from Döblin.” — Gunter Grass.
 • 
Topper Sherwood
5
Umberto Eco on Writing ‘Politically’
‘There is no rule… only the risk of contradiction.’
 • 
Topper Sherwood
Bullets inflame debate on 'Revolutionary Art'
Berlin and Vienna artists discuss the meaning and value of their work.
 • 
Topper Sherwood

December 2024

Herwarth Walden’s 1923 Call for a ‘United States of Europe'
'Berlin is America, in microcosm'
 • 
Topper Sherwood
Else Lasker-Schüler’s Wild Rise as a Modern Performing Poet
It all began with a party in Berlin....
 • 
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.
 • 
Topper Sherwood
A Visit to Paul Klee's Studio
Klee shares his ideas about painting, children's art, his own legacy, and madness.
 • 
Topper Sherwood
Christmas in Weimar, 1919
Winter holiday unites students and faculty of the new, revolutionary Bauhaus School.
 • 
Topper Sherwood

November 2024

© 2025 Topper Sherwood
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture