Book Recommendation: Metropolis, by Philip Kerr

This month, our book is the final work by Philip Kerr: ‘Metropolis,’ set in 1928 Berlin. Published posthumously, this is the last of Kerr’s series of ‘Bernie Gunther’ novels, on which he worked since the 1980s. Bernie, a World War One veteran, has recently joined the...

Introducing: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Since the theme of our upcoming seminar this Sunday is Christianity in the Third Reich, let’s think this month about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. Born into an academic family, Bonhoeffer studied theology in Germany and the USA....

Book Recommendation: Weimar Culture, by Peter Gay

This month, our book is Peter Gay’s ‘Weimar Culture’. It is available online in PDF format, or should be easily attainable in print. German-born historian Peter Gay lived through the early years of the Weimar Republic, emigrating to America at the...

Introducing: Heinz Meixner

This month, let’s remember Heinz Meixner and his equally-brave girlfriend (not to mention her mother)! Meixner, an Austrian engineer living in West Berlin, missed his partner terribly after the building of the Wall in 1961. After two years of the border...