Darknet
Redeeming the darknet in five examples

The darknet is often seen as the Cain to the internet’s Abel, as a hub for weapons and drugs and a paradise for paedophiles and terrorists. But, as it turns out, it’s not really so dark after all.

Terézia Mora
Running from alienation

She left the powdered-sugar winds of the Hungarian countryside behind to become a renowned writer in Berlin: Terézia Mora writes about the excluded, the seekers, and the lovers. Now her work has been honoured with the Georg Büchner Prize.

Ex-Embassy Exhibition
Vestiges of a failed (diplomatic) relationship

The EX-EMBASSY exhibition and text series delves into and beyond Australia’s relationship with East Germany.

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Bicultural Urbanite Luke
English Confessions of a Bicultural Urbanite

Traditionally, the beginning of a new year comes with resolutions. But I’d like to start mine here with a confession. The divulging of a dirty little secret I’ve been harbouring and trying my best to forget. It could compromise my prized status as a bicultural urbanite, and it has to do with my bilingual abilities. Though ‘abilities’ would be a generous term here.

Bicultural Urbanite Brianna
FLAT WHITE IS THE NEW BLACK

Coffee shop owner and Australian expat Garth Gregory has been keeping Berliners caffeinated since 2004. I had a chat to him about starting a business in Germany, gentrification and the perils of third wave specialty coffee.

Guest blogger Felicity
Navigating new beginnings times six

After facing a few years of adversity, a family of six embark on a rock’n’roll international move, braving the Berlin bureaucracy, language barrier and only eight weeks of summer a year, to live a whole new life filled with wonder and curiosity.