Berlin moves to ban advertising with ‘beautiful but dumb’ women
The Local news@thelocal.de 19 June 2017 Would this Belgian billboard ad be banned by Berlin authorities? Photo: DPA One of the parties in the Berlin government has set out its … Continue reading
Weimar memories: walking Berlin … in a flâneur’s footsteps
Armed with Franz Hessel’s cult guidebook, Walking in Berlin, published in 1929, Vanessa Thorpe is transported back to the city’s decadent period Full swing … a candlelit party at the … Continue reading
Man or beast: why is a pack of bronze wolves terrorising Berlin?
Giving Nazi salutes and pointing pistols at commuters, Rainer Opolka’s wolf statues offer divided Germany a timely reminder of nationalism’s dangers ‘Racism has now become standard. I don’t want people … Continue reading
Berlin’s Artemis brothel raided by 900 officers, say German police
Tax and customs investigators join swoop on Artemis, Berlin’s biggest sex club, as authorities allege women were exploited and possibly trafficked Police vans lined up outside the Artemis brothel in … Continue reading
Story of cities #22: how Hitler’s plans for Germania would have torn Berlin apart
Hitler’s megalomaniacal project to raze much of Berlin and transform it into his global Nazi capital killed thousands. Today, its few remnants are chilling, mundane, even graceful – and inseparable … Continue reading
German head of security services: Isil fighters are ‘disguising themselves as refugees’
Warning comes after an Algerian man was arrested at a refugee shelter on suspicion of planning a terror attack in Berlin A 34-year old Algerian man posing next to firearms … Continue reading
Anita Berber died on this day, November 10, 1928. She was buried in a paupers’ cemetery
Refugees welcomed in Germany like war heroes as Berlin expects 10,000 in one day
German residents greeted migrants and refugees arriving with applause but tensions increase on the island of Lesbos A man cheers as he and other refugees arrive at the main train … Continue reading
Stuttgarter Platz old and new
The old red light district of Stuttgarter Platz is now a very chic upmarket place with barely a trace of its former naughty past left. Chocolate night bar is now … Continue reading
Germany’s bathroom thief strikes again as ministry toilet seats go missing
German police baffled as taps and toilet seats removed from new interior ministry headquarters in Berlin, months after taps stolen from BND intelligence agency Thomas de Maiziere, who as interior … Continue reading
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