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Podcast Zeitgeister On Air

Our hosts Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson and Dina Elsayed chat to international Kafka experts from every corner of the world and hear the Kafka stories they are keen to share with us.

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Psycho test Which Kafka character are you?

If you were a character from one of Kafka’s novels, which one would you be? Maybe her – the beguiling Fräulein Bürstner? Answer a few questions to find out in our psycho test.

Illustration by Beatrice Davies  Drawing of Kafka's novel character: Fräulein Bürstner

Kafka’s Highlight of the Week

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Radio in the GDR Radio and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Eva Sudrow worked in the DDR Rundfunk radio drama editing room in East Berlin, and later for Deutschlandfunk. She did radio for half the country, and subsequently for the whole country. Verena Hütter interviewed her.

Photo: Collection of Eva Sudrow Eva Sudrow with her colleague in Studio 6 at Deutschlandradio Berlin in 2007

Webradio | DJ-Livestream Live from the storage room

During the pandemic, dance enthusiasts took to the Internet. Resourceful club owners, DJs and radio producers established a new, multimedia radio format without further ado.

© Hör Berlin Chloé Lula / Hör Berlin

Radio Pirate radio stations in East Frisia

Playing some different music for a change, broadcasting alternative political content or fooling around on the airwaves – why were there so many pirate radio stations in East Frisia, of all places?

Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Bildagentur-online/Ohde Pirate radio stations were rife in East Frisia, of all places.

Hasnain Kazim Beware, Democracy!

There’s nothing better than democracy; Hasnain Kazim is convinced of that. He also knows that it cannot be had without effort, without balance and, above all, without a fight.

mauritius images / age fotostock / Don Johnston Fights are Good! Polar Bears in Manitoba, Canada


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