You are a football fan that is not 1) a drunken anti social beer monster 2) armed with a pocket … Read More
You are a football fan that is not 1) a drunken anti social beer monster 2) armed with a pocket … Read More
It’s no secret why the revellers at big, messy, drink-fuelled street festivals like Love Parade and Mardi Gras prefer to paint their … Read More
When people say that Berlin has an explosive underground, they aren’t just referring to its radical nightlife and its alternative scenes. The … Read More
Berlin´s street art scene can never be accused of being stagnant, inactive, lazy or boring. The sheer volume of local artists … Read More
The Köpi are reopening their techno cellar tomorrow for a night of swanky, gritty, noisy, ghetto elektro-punk. As far a … Read More
Bedrohung, Zwangsversteigerung, Rettung, Evakuierung, Umzäunung, Protest, Hungerstreik, Stürmung, Auszug, Rückkehr – das Tacheles hat seit 1909 sicherlich viel erlebt doch … Read More
Two buildings face each other on the Spree: one is a shiny highrise, its mosaic of metallic colours gleaming on … Read More
In the very same week that Tacheles is threatened, a new art squat makes the scene by hosting an exhibition … Read More
On a tour yesterday one of our guests asked me if I knew of any clubs that were open on … Read More
Is there really a ‘war’ between the sexes? Not if you define ‘war’ as an armed conflict between two groups … Read More
Berlin is stuck in the eighties… but is it the Summer of ’88 or is it Nineteen-Eighty-Four?
Berlin in the 1990s was a concrete jungle: bricks escaping from the confines of their walls, girders sagging and twisting like vines, wood being warped by the elements into elegant mis-shapes. It was as if the elements had escaped the linear confines of the man-made environment. Naturally, this encouraged Berlin’s new residents to do the same.