InSquare Peg PubbySimon BurnettThe Bar at the End of the WorldThe atmosphere this warm August Saturday night in 1961 at the Heidelberger Krug bar in Berlin’s American sector was convivial. But, as…1d ago1
InSquare Peg PubbySimon BurnettEchoes from the dungeon: One family’s lonely fight against a vindictive Stalinist regimeEarly on the morning of February 28, 1963, Sigrid Ruehrdanz left her house in the Soviet sector of Berlin to go to work. When she reached…Dec 613
Larissa OliveiraThe Second Life of Christiane F.(2014): Humanizing the person behind the iconChristiane Vera Felscherinow, better known as Christiane F., was born in a divided Germany 59 years ago. This political scenario was…Jan 15, 2023Jan 15, 2023
InILLUMINATIONbyCurt Melzer @cwmelzer.bsky.socialWhat I Saw in Berlin When the Wall Opened Up in 1989A firsthand account of the day the Berlin Wall fell.Mar 27, 202319Mar 27, 202319
InSquare Peg PubbySimon BurnettThe Bar at the End of the WorldThe atmosphere this warm August Saturday night in 1961 at the Heidelberger Krug bar in Berlin’s American sector was convivial. But, as…1d ago1
InSquare Peg PubbySimon BurnettEchoes from the dungeon: One family’s lonely fight against a vindictive Stalinist regimeEarly on the morning of February 28, 1963, Sigrid Ruehrdanz left her house in the Soviet sector of Berlin to go to work. When she reached…Dec 613
Larissa OliveiraThe Second Life of Christiane F.(2014): Humanizing the person behind the iconChristiane Vera Felscherinow, better known as Christiane F., was born in a divided Germany 59 years ago. This political scenario was…Jan 15, 2023
InILLUMINATIONbyCurt Melzer @cwmelzer.bsky.socialWhat I Saw in Berlin When the Wall Opened Up in 1989A firsthand account of the day the Berlin Wall fell.Mar 27, 202319
Emily WaltersSatire, Erasure and Deadly Love: The story behind the Berlin Wall’s Fraternal KissA commentary on Dmitri Vrubel’s mural My God, Help Me to Survive this Deadly Love (1999)Feb 21, 2021
Olga-KleinRemember, Remember the Month of NovemberNovember feels like running into an old lover on a quiet street — a familiar ache and warmth, where endings and beginnings blend. It’s a…Nov 1
Mona HPope’s RevengeThis is the Fernsehturm Berlin, the TV tower. Built in the late ’60s, at 1206 feet it is the tallest structure in Germany and third tallest…Feb 6
