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• Your Erotic Story: A Four-week Creative Writing Course in Berlin Mitte,...

  

  I’m really excited to be running a 4-week creative writing course focussing on the Erotic next month at Lettrétage, Berlin Mitte next month. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2024 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Listening to the Past at the Newly Reopened DDR Museum

  

  When the giant aquarium containing one million litres of water at Berlin’s Radisson Blu exploded last December, the fish weren’t the only victims. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2023 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• British Council Literature Seminar 2023 on Class and Contemporary UK Writing

  

  A couple of weeks ago I was playing a theatre game in which you have to stand in the middle of a circle and answer questions in quick succession. “How middle... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2023 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Paris Magnétique at The Jewish Museum, Berlin

  

  I have been thinking about identity a lot recently. Susan Sontag’s diaries reveal how she constantly recreated herself. Like setting out to be less charming... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2023 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Etgar Keret at the Jewish Museum Berlin and The Freedom Theatre at Theaterhaus...

  

  October in Berlin: Two experiences that centred around the importance of storytelling. The Israeli writer Etgar Keret’s new exhibition Inside Out at the Jewish... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2022 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Nine Interesting Things You Learn by Spending Christmas in Berlin

  

  Christmas in Berlin is always interesting… I love spending Christmas in Berlin. I haven’t done it for a while, but there’s something charming and playful about... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2021 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• German Humour and Conspiracy Theories

  

  German humour is strange. Plus, the Germans captured the absurdism of the internet and conspiracy theories first. Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2021 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• M&M Creative: Workshops for Individuals and Business

  

  I’ve started a company! Everyone else in Berlin has a startup, so I thought I’d launch one too. M M Creative, Berlin I’ve joined forces with actor and writer... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2019 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Nineties Berlin at the Alte Münze

  

  “Berlin ist vorbei,” says Andreas Jeromin, a former Berlin squatter. It’s a phrase we hear often. Berlin is over. The coolest, most creative time the city had... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2018 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Pi – Petricore Movement & Zentire Music at Pfefferberg Theater

  

  Last night, I had the pleasure of seeing Pi, a modern dance performance at Pfefferberg Theatre. There is something about bodies moving through space in... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2018 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Guest Post by Sophie Poulter-Patel: Daimler Art Collection

  

  The Daimler Art Collection is hard to find. We walked past it twice before spotting the little door that led to it. You have to ring the bell and then the door... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2018 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Welcome to Jerusalem at the Jewish Museum Berlin

  

  The Jewish Museum Berlin is a disorientating place. It is made up of various buildings from different periods, most recently The Libeskind building. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2018 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• The Wall Museum East Side Gallery

  

  The Wall Museum at the East Side Gallery, which opened last year, is situated in the same building as the Pirates Bar. Less well known is the fact that the... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2017 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• A Christmas Carol at Theaterforum Kreuzberg

  

  Christmas is here! But despite the sprinkling of snow and Christmas markets popping up everywhere, I hadn’t been feeling the Christmas spirit until I saw A... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2017 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Jeanne Mammen at the Berlinische Gallerie

  

  Jeanne Mammen, Berlin " data-medium-file="https://englishmaninberlin.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/jeanne-mammen-berlin.jpg?w=235&h;=321?w=219"... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2017 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• OSMO: A Musical Performance by Sebastian Blasius and the Sonar Quartett at Ufer...

  

  You walk into room at Berlin’s Ufer Studios. Swirls of salt are scattered across the black floor, orange curtains hang from the ceiling, reminding you of... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2017 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Creative In Berlin: Tess Motherway

  

  Tess Motherway is an Irish filmmaker, visual artist film curator, based in Berlin. She will be demonstrating her first performance piece ‘Things Men Have... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2017 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Weekend Trips from Berlin: Documenta14 in Kassel

  

  Kassel is a 3-4 hour train ride from Berlin. It is a strange mix of regal buildings and monuments from its time as a princely residence, and bland concrete. Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2017 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• The Friday Image: Panorama Punkt View by Berlin Ninja

  

  Berlin, image, photography, art, Berlin Ninja " data-medium-file="https://englishmaninberlin.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/tv-tower-starwars.jpg?w=551?w=300"... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2017 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Berlin’s Tech Open Air Festival 2017

  

  Last week, Berlin’s Tech Open Air (TOA) festival took over the city. Now in its sixth year, TOA is an interdisciplinary festival that brings together technology... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2017 EXPAT, TRAVEL