Siegessäule - English

Jun. 26, 2017 – By all accounts, International Workers' Day in Berlin came and went without major incident this year. Most of the streets in Kreuzberg were closed for MyFest,...

Jun. 20 – Although it doesn’t mention the biological orifice by name, Sado Opera’s latest tune "Imaginarium" is inspired by the cloaca – the hole that birds use for...

Jun. 13, 2017 – After seven years in prison, Chelsea Manning walked free on May 17 (coincidentally also the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia), thanks...

Jun. 6, 2017 – Berlin has no shortage of film festivals, but has there been one dedicated to feminist horror? Well, there is now: Final Girls Berlin is taking place...

May 30, 2017 – News apps' notifications are essential to me, although they mostly inflict concerns about loved ones in Syria, and they never fail to reveal my anxious...

May 22, 2017 – Molly Nilsson is one of Berlin’s most life-affirming songwriters. The Swedish singer met with Joey Hansom in the smoking section of the penthouse café...

May 16, 2017 – French pop singer Gérald Kurdian is using his body to talk about the body – and not your garden variety homo sapiens, but rather a revolutionary non-binary...

May 9, 2017 – Berlin can handle things big or small, but it’s the small that really gives the city its character – like Xposed, taking place this month at indie cinema...

May 2, 2017 – The words “queer” and “refugee” are all the rage at the moment. Put them together and you’ve got yourself a preliminary idea for an exhibition at the Schwules...

Apr. 25, 2017 – If you spot a fire on the night of April 30, good chance it's a cop car that's been torched by a radical leftist. The night before International Workers' Day...

Apr. 20, 2017 – Since moving uptown to the lovely suburb of Prenzlauer Berg, I find myself often drinking flat whites where Oderburger meets Benauer Straße. After buying Senf...

Apr. 11, 2017 – The Christian holiday of Easter has a particularly unholy tradition in Berlin. Around here, it's more about celebrating erections than resurrections. The Berlin...

Apr. 4, 2017 – As a wise Bon Jovi once said: it's all the same – only the names will change. We spoke with Michelle Gurevich, the artist formerly known as Chinawoman, of...

Mar. 28, 2017 – Footage of Kreuzberg from the 80s looks as if the place was in a constant state of revolt, people out on the street in numbers that look, in contemporary...

Mar. 21, 2017 – Earlier this month saw the opening of ğ – queer forms migrate at the Schwules Museum. Curated by Emre Busse and Aykan Safoğlu, the group show...

Mar. 14, 2017 – Ever heard of the black gay artist who spanned the jazz, experimental and academic music worlds of the 20th century? The name Julius Eastman should be, by all...

Mar. 7, 2017 – International Women's Day has been a thing for over one hundred years, but there's still plenty we have to fight for – that's probably why many Germans...

Feb. 28, 2017 – Berlin is one of the easiest cities to call home. It has a strange, wicked charm that makes you love it, even after having hated it. I lost two homes...

Feb. 22 – Still no swimming pool, but Berlin's most notorious nightclub is making a notable expansion. Berghain will inaugurate its new dancefloor, the Säule...

Feb. 14, 2017 – The future’s bright, the future’s Berlin – unless you find yourself at a  screening of Fluidø, premiering at the Berlinale tonight. Set in 2060, artist...