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Herwarth Walden’s 1923 Call for a ‘United States of Europe'

Else Lasker-Schüler’s Wild Rise as a Modern Performing Poet

Spring Leaves: An Art Class with Johannes Itten and Yi Jing

A Visit to Paul Klee's Studio

Christmas in Weimar, 1919

Coming Next: A 'Berlin Stories' Season of Re-runs

Artist Hans Gross: Recruited to fight in a 'cultural war'

Blaming the Victim: The Shootings at Alexanderplatz and Chausseestrasse

Remembering John F. Kennedy in 1960: When American politicians were...different

How Pro-Soviet Spies of the 'Red Orchestra' Laundered Money During WWII

The Unusual Musical Career of German-American Composer Stefan Wolpe

Free-to-All Berlin Story: US Election, 2008

Couples in Nazi resistance group maligned as 'Communists' after WWII

Berlin opera director defends arts funding and creative freedom

Remembering 1989: Bug-Man Berlin

The modernist idea factory: Oscar Schlemmer's Bauhaus Classroom

'There but for fortune, goes your land or mine'

Introducing the Rixdorfer Print Workshop

Lessons of German bureaucracy

Franz Kafka lived six months in Berlin

Christopher Street Day, 2024

Käthe Kollwitz reads Hermann Hesse

Poem: Erich Kästner’s 'Little Solo'

Wangenheim: TV- and Radio Broadcast Features Use Tools of Drama-Writing

The Striking Weavers of Silesia

'Fixing the Information Crisis': Legal and legislative battles for knowledge workers

John F. Kennedy gave young Berliners hope, despite their divided world

Berlin's harsh reality and Alfred Döblin’s utopian hope for a cure

Hannah Arendt on Political Resistance in Berlin

A small, bi-coastal tragedy of our ‘Written World’

The New 'Melting Pot'

Herwarth Walden’s 1923 Call for a ‘United States of Europe'

The strange, mystifying iconography of Siegbert Porada

Execution Invoices for ‘Uncle Emil’

'The Cripple' by Karl Wittfogel

The Bauhaus Canteen (1919-1930)

Cold War Military Intelligence Listening Post on Berlin 'Rubble Mountain'

I don't usually get into 'spot news,' but....

German Satirist Erich Kästner

Umberto Eco on Writing ‘Politically’ as a European

Russian Writers Escape War-at-Home, Fleeing to Berlin, 1917-1938

Sense of humor not required in dealing with German authorities...but it sure helps

Manufactured Hate & Fear of Environmental Greens Goes Back to Unification

Peter Marcuse: City Planning Begins at ‘Home’

A Lesson from Berlin Writer Kurt Tucholsky

The Anti-War 'Torch' of Writer Karl Kraus

Berlin-California Filmmaker Casting for Fellow Voyagers

American Poet Allen Ginsberg in Prague

35. Solidarity Forever!

34. Reception of 'Who's the Dumbest?'

33. ‘Who’s the Dumbest?’

32. Wanted: New Material

31. Success, Curtailed

30. The Dog’s the Thing

29. 'There Lies the Dog'