Everything tagged Berlin

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Somewhere Unique

I feel the magic draining from Berlin

22 August 2026
History Rhyming

What we’ve lost to authoritarianism, and what we stand to lose if it comes back.

5 April 2024
The Neoliberal Museum

Fotografiska as a puzzle piece in the ongoing transformation of Berlin.

26 September 2023
All the Faces

Even when Midjourney gets it wrong, the results might still be worthwhile.

16 January 2023
Soviet Shadows

There should really be a plaque on the Ernst Thälmann statue in Berlin.

27 November 2022
Willful Forgetting

How Germany replaced its collective memory.

19 June 2022
Belle Alliance

Berlin’s history is thick.

15 June 2022
Swim

Floating down the river in Geneva.

30 June 2021 5 years ago
Dimitroffstraße

When Eberswalder Straße was named after the Bulgarian leader.

7 February 2021 5 years ago
Mai 1945

The lost pictures of war-torn Berlin from 1945.

5 January 2021 5 years ago
1920s Berlin at Night

Neon lights, a glowing subway, ads everywhere.

12 December 2020 5 years ago
Mauerweging

Cycling the length of the Berlin Wall makes it a lot less abstract.

8 November 2020 5 years ago
Tacheles

What was lost.

11 September 2019 7 years ago
Summerhere

It has arrived.

9 April 2018 8 years ago
4 September 2016 10 years ago
18 August 2016 10 years ago
Weiße Stadt

Low-flying planes and summer rains.

11 August 2016 10 years ago
A Pilgrimage

Visiting the Bauhaus in Dessau.

17 May 2016 10 years ago
Hitler! War! Destruction!

In Berlin, a devilish chapter of history is buried under history itself.

14 February 2016 10 years ago
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31 May 2015 11 years ago
The Sun Has Teeth

Summer 2015.

26 May 2015 11 years ago
Bright

The sun is out.

17 February 2015 11 years ago
Outside, in the Twenties

Little did I know.

1 February 2015 11 years ago
On the Surface

Riding Berlin's U7 all the way south.

1 February 2015 11 years ago
Soviet Glory

Berlin's Russian embassy preserves Soviet grandeur, Hitler's marble, and a church built on imported Russian soil.

31 January 2015 11 years ago
Silence

The snow kills all noise.

31 January 2015 11 years ago
Berlin Blues

The glass should be half-full.

22 January 2015 11 years ago
Monday Night on Columbiadamm

Puddles and neon lights.

19 January 2015 11 years ago
11 January 2015 11 years ago
The Standstill

Berlin, hamstrung by 1990s decisions.

12 November 2014 11 years ago
Hubertusbad

Visiting Lichtenberg’s decommissioned swimming pool for a trip to the past.

28 September 2014 12 years ago
Ad Nauseam

Advertising crosses a line when it destroys the very product it claims to support

12 September 2014 12 years ago
Lost Space

Mass tourism transforms cities into spectacles.

21 April 2014 12 years ago

Journal

7 August 2026