culture
Don’t miss the upcoming Berlin Independent Film Festival!
The Berlin International Film Festival, also known as Berlinale, is the city’s most glamorous even, attracting the world’s elite of the film industry....
A Sad Truth: Hitler sells
A new exhibit recently opened in Berlin giving visitors the chance to experience a life-size model of the bunker in which Hitler killed himself in 194...
“Damascus in Exile”: Bringing together Syrian and German artists
Earlier this year we wrote a feature on the “Multaqa” project – an initiative in Berlin that trained refugees as tour guides in a few of the city’s ma...
Berlin exhibit shows Hitler’s bunker where he spent his last days
When the official copyright of Hitler’s Mein Kampf expired in 2015, the possibility that the book would be legally circulated in its original format b...
Tehran Art exhibit in Berlin cancelled
After much anticipation and confusion, the Tehran Art exhibition planned as collaboration between Berlin’s Portrait Gallery (Berliner Gemäldegalerie) ...
Survey says: Berlin one of the best places to be LGBT and single
Berlin has been named one of the best cities to LGBT and single.
According to a survey by GayCities, more than tens of thousands of voters throug...
Learning from the neighbors: Berlin to legalize cannabis coffee shops?
Germany’s capital city may soon follow in the footsteps of its neighbor to the west. While the legalization of “cannabis coffee shops” in the Netherla...
Berlin through the eyes of cinematographer Alex Soloviev
Have you ever seen a work of art and was just awestruck?
That was our first impression of the short videos created by Russian-born cinematographer Al...
Tehran art exhibition in Berlin halted indefinitely
Museums curators and soon-to-be visitors have been patiently awaiting the arrival of a collection from Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art that was du...
Why is Rosa Parks’ old Detroit home being moved to Berlin?
Rosa Parks was an icon of the American Civil Rights Movement.
Her story is taught to in US history courses and reconstructions of her iconic refusal ...
