My six years on and around a Berlin stage
- 18th September 2022,
From old outlaws to new icons: Ben Knight on his thwarted acting career, and the transformations..
Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer turns 100
- 5th November 2021,
German Jewish Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer, who moved back to Berlin at the age of 88,..
Berlin’s revolutionary rent cap — success or flop?
- 23rd February 2021,
Berlin’s controversial five-year rent freeze — worldwide a unique experimental measure — is now a year
Berlin gentrification debate flares over Norwegian billionaire’s investment
- 24th September 2020,
Berlin residents are worried that billionaire property developer Ivar Tollefsen is buying up thousands of apartments...
Berlin’s new rent freeze: How it compares globally
- 23rd October 2019,
Berlin’s brand-new rent freeze (and cap) is hardly unique among cities with pressured housing markets. But..
Renters in Berlin are appealing to the local council to stop the sale of their homes...
Berlin sued over dangerous conditions for refugees
- 8th December 2015,
Lawyers have filed a lawsuit against Berlin’s social affairs minister over dangerous conditions for refugees waiting..
City’s 34-year-old mascot, Schnute, is ailing and apathetic and needs ‘dignified end to her life’, activist
Measles death prompts calls for mandatory vaccination
- 23rd February 2015,
Death of 18-month-old boy is the first fatality among 574 reported cases in the country’s worst
Germany has banned ISIS, but this doesn’t seem to have stopped ever more youth from joining..