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Book Recommendation: Measuring the World, by Daniel Kehlmann

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15th October 20207th September 2020

This month, I would like to step back from our prevalent twentieth-century themes and recommend to you ‘Measuring the World’ by Daniel Kehlmann. In case… Read More »

Introducing: Elise and Otto Hampel

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8th October 20207th September 2020

This month, I am thinking of Elise and Otto Hampel, a working-class couple who lived on Amsterdamer Strasse in the Northern district of Wedding. Increasingly… Read More »

Book Recommendation: The Death of Adolf Hitler: The Final Word by Jean-Christoph Brisard and Lana Parshina

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1st October 20207th September 2020

This month, it has to be ‘The Death of Adolf Hitler: The Final Word’ by Jean-Christoph Brisard and Lana Parshina, which you might well read… Read More »

Introducing: Julius Leber

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24th September 20207th September 2020

This month, let’s think about Julius Leber (born in 1891, executed on January 5th 1945). Leber worked as a journalist and teacher before volunteering for… Read More »

Book Recommendation: A Nazi in the Family, by Derek Niemann

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17th September 20207th September 2020

This month, I’d like to recommend ‘A Nazi in the Family’ by Derek Niemann. From the first sentences – the author’s memories of wintertime gingerbread… Read More »

Introducing: Hilde Meisel

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10th September 20207th September 2020

This month, let’s think about Hilde Meisel. She was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Vienna, and her parents moved to Berlin while she… Read More »

Book Recommendation: Red Love, by Maxim Leo

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3rd September 202024th August 2020

Today I wholeheartedly recommend the much-lauded family autobiography ‘Red Love’ (2009) by East German journalist Maxim Leo, born in 1970. Leo presents a German family… Read More »

Introducing: August Landmesser

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27th August 202024th August 2020

This month, I am thinking of August Landmesser, born on May 24, 1910, of whom rather little is known. He was a shipyard worker in… Read More »

Berlin’s Litfaßsäule

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30th May 20198th May 2019

Berlin is in mourning over the decision to remove the city’s iconic cylindrical advertising columns (known as Litfaßsäule after their philanthropic inventor, Ernst Litfaß). Used… Read More »

Introducing: Rose Valland

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23rd May 20198th May 2019

This month, I am thinking of Rose Valland (1898-1980), art curator, who became one of the most highly-decorated women in European history. During Valland’s tenure… Read More »

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