stil in berlin.
Stil in Berlin is the premier German fashion blog, with street style photos taken and posted daily by the blog's maintainers, Mary Scherpe and Dario Natale. The photographs showcase the unique and vibrant street fashion culture that is to be found walking through the neighborhoods of Berlin. The subjects of these photos come from all […]
Goethe-Institute: Courses for children and teens
This website provides information into a variety of courses for children and teens on various subjects, in addition to the German language. The courses are primarily recreational, focusing on sports or music, taught in many regions in Germany. The website can be viewed in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, and Turkish, seemingly to cater […]
Eric Breininger’s Death: The Memoirs of a German Jihadist
This article discusses memoir of the German-born Jihadist Eric Breiniger, who was recently killed in Pakistan, and whose memoir was recently published on a Jihadist website. The well-written, although not a hundred percent confirmed, memoir of the terrorist tells of his conversion to Islam and quick radicalization, despite growing up ‘normal’ in Germany. The most […]
Dispelling the Myth of ‘Parallel Societies’: Are Berlin’s Muslims a Model for Integration?
This article discusses the new report by the Open Society Institute, “Muslims in Berlin,” a study that focuses on Berlin’s Kreuzberg district and tells of a fairly positive story of integration. Far from being a parallel society, and contrary to many assumptions, Muslims in Kreuzberg make daily or weekly contact with their non-Muslim neighbors and […]
Feo Aladag’s “When We Leave”
Originally Die Fremde, Feo Aladag’s Turkish-German drama When We Leave won the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. The star of the film, Sibel Kekilli, who won an award for her role in Fatih Akin’s Head-On, also won a Founders Award for Best Actress in […]
The Impact of Audre Lorde’s Politics and Poetics on Afro-German Women Writers
In her essay, Jennifer Michaels traces the influence of Audre Lorde’s poetic achievements in the work of several Afro-German poets, exploring the texts of May Ayim in particular. Lorde felt that since there was no self-defined Afro-German community (she herself coined the hyphenated term that so many came to embrace), many of these marginalized women […]