Tag Archives: Berlin

Look here, U.S. election deniers – Berlin bungled it big time 

The press and social media are still abuzz with deniers of the U.S. elections in....

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What is the Inquisition doing in 21st-century America?

Looking at U.S. politics over the past few years, Germans recognize many patterns from the....

Karl Marx’s penguin and Richard Wagner’s design for Madonna’s corset

Listen to Brenda tell the story Karl Marx and Richard Wagner are featured in joint....

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I tried to escape the Oktoberfest. I failed.

Listen to Brenda tell the story For the second time, the Oktoberfest has been canceled....

Berlin, lost and sometimes found

On one last pre-corona trip to the capital, abandoned streets allowed fresh insights into the....

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The Sound of Freedom – Uniting East and West through Country Music

To me it was just another country song, but to an East Berlin taxi driver....

The Berlin Wall, 30 years later

Many people did not expect Germany to be reunified. Thirty years after the fall of....

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On the train from Munich to Berlin

It’s a bright sunny day as my daughter and I hop on the train to....