Konrad Werner: So are we sure Erdogan doesn't fuck goats?
What's the point of living in a free country if you can't accuse foreign dictators of fucking goats?
View ArticleKonrad Werner: The Heckler & Koch plot thickens
Prosecuting media outlets has become Germany's new favourite thing – after Böhmermann, public prosecutors have now started going after journalists who uncovered Heckler & Koch's illegal arms deal.
View ArticleNot waiting for paint to dry: Petra Cortright
INTERVIEW! Copy, paste, voilà! Post-internet artist Petra Cortright makes "digital paintings" with Photoshop. She's gone from selling JPEGs to exhibitions at Frieze London. Catch the young artist's...
View ArticleA day in the life of the Berlin #Polizei
The Berlin police department had a more eventful weekend than you, and they've got the Twitter feed to prove it. In English!
View ArticleHacktivists need care too: Jérémie Zimmermann
After years of jet-setting digital activism on a global scale, disillusioned burn-out Jérémie Zimmermann has found a new cause: hacker wellness.
View ArticleThe physicality of the internet: Andrew Blum
INTERVIEW! Disruption Network Lab is back with "Deep Cables" (Jun 17-18 at Kunstquartier Bethanien), an exploration of the internet's workings. On Sat, Jun 18, author Andrew Blum takes us through the...
View ArticleRoma TV
Playing at the Ehemaliges Stummfilmkino Delphi on October 27 and 29 at 8pm, "The Journey/Drom" turns the Balkan migration crisis into a live talk show. Don't miss!
View ArticleOmer Fast
The Jerusalem-born, Berlin-based artist will show seven pieces in Talking is Not Always the Solution, including a new one on the life of influential German photographer August Sander.
View ArticleAnimal testing: it’s a propaganda war!
Thanks to animal rights activists and their graphic campaigns, we’re all prone to seeing animal research as outrageously wrong. What’s the actual situation in Berlin labs and what are the alternatives?
View ArticleKonrad Werner: The news is meant to be a bit boring
Sometimes we pretend the news is important and serious because we hate ourselves and want to be unhappy.
View ArticleTruly global: Safia Dickersbach
INTERVIEW! Dickersbach has shaken up the art publishing scene with Prōtocollum, an annual publication that includes artists from all around the world and empowers them to become their own curators. The...
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Die Welt does a Breitbart
Another week, another tiresome hatchet job on Muslims in Germany. Only this time the Springer Verlag pre-emptively plays to the Breitbart audience.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: It's not just terrorists spreading fear
Terrorists feed on our news-fevered brains.
View ArticleSyrious ambitions
The arty Syrian diaspora breaks new ground in Berlin with its own magazine, A Syrious Look.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Germany condemns Trump, but makes money off him
Germany has an old rule when it comes to foreign despots – condemn first then do business. It's working for Trump too.
View ArticleBerlinale Blog: The media and movie stars
Thanks to Herr Drumpf, there's a new solidarity between reporters and movie stars. He can't decide whom he hates more.
View ArticleBreitbart opens Berlin media site in co-working space
Long rumoured to be starting an office in Berlin, the American alt-right news site Breitbart is finally making its move – and they're doing it start-up-style. We've got the exclusive scoop.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Worrying about integration again
Some Turkish people in Germany voted "Evet" (yes) in Erdoğan's referendum last Sunday. The German newspapers decided that this means society is collapsing, and Turkish people have to sort it out.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Saudi Arabia is Germany's new moral guru
Saudi Arabia has said it won't bother Germany for more weapons again, because of the political problems. The German government is all like: Oh, we don't mind. We sold a load of "Dingos" to a Kurdish...
View ArticleAmong whites: Biodeutsche and their privileges
INTERVIEW! Is the discourse about privilege and race dangerously behind here in Germany compared to the US? Journalist Mohamed Amjahid thinks so and is ready to change that with his new book "Unter...
View ArticleFaking it
In the aftermath of Trump’s win, Germans have been worried about the viral spread of fake news – and how it could play out in September’s Bundestag elections.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Deflated innocence
Why doesn't the "Die Welt" balloon have "Die Welt" anymore, and what's that have to do with the reason why German newspapers almost never criticize German businesses?
View ArticleNew (English) mags with a cause
Two new boutique Berlin-based English-language magazines, "Panta" and "Nansen", promise to open their fellow young creatives’ eyes to the fascinating hidden lives around them.
View ArticleWladek Flakin: Press censorship, made in Germany
Germany's interior minister just banned the left-wing news platform Indymedia. Wladek writes for that platform!
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Some real news in 2018
It would be nice this year if like 10 percent of the news didn't make everything easier for the far-right.
View ArticleMoonlit museums
Taking in art, dance, history, architecture, performance, archaeology, food, science, music and technology, this year’s Long Night of the Museums will happen across 80 of Berlin’s museums. Don't miss...
View ArticleA cry-for-help Jewish map
The website Jewish Places provides an interactive map showing Jewish institutions, places, historic personalities and themed walks. Users are also able to add new locations to this open-source project.
View Article“Ironically, running a magazine never was my dream."
INTERVIEW! Exberliner has been out of print since April. Our editor-in-chief explains what's been going on behind the scenes, and why she finds independent publishing more daunting than undercover war...
View ArticleFrom the editor: "Why I give a shit about the Assange trial."
The stakes for Julian Assange’s extradition hearings couldn’t be higher, so why don’t more people care? Our editor explains this trial's monumental implications for journalism and democracy around the...
View ArticleWhy is German media so pro-Israel?
Surprised by coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict in the German media? Taken aback by how any criticism of Israel is labelled antisemitic? Leading German-Jewish journalist Fabian Wolff unpacks the...
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