In this month's AUFLAUF:
- The most depressing street in all Berlin
- Rock, funk, and Yes
- Northanger Abbey references
- Good poetry
- Long-awaited John Owen debut
- What are history books for?
- Gossip columnist seeks hotspot
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Looking for new perspectives on German history? This month's reviews: @ajbwells.bsky.social on rock in the GDR, me on Alice Miller's search for her family's story, and John Owen on interwar Weimar (the city, not the republic).
8:30 on Saturday at Lettrétrage (Veteranenstrasse 21): we‘re chatting about the very alive literary legacy of Sebald. There’ll be some convo, some readings, some CRISIS perhaps—but all in all it should be a GOOD TIME!
I had the absolute pleasure to speak with Maggie O'Farrell about her excellent new novel, LAND, and how it inadvertently addresses "one of today's most potent political stances: Where do you stand on people arriving in your country or people leaving your country?"
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The GDR rock band Silly, poems by Alice Miller, and Katja Hoyer on the rise of fascism in interwar Weimar
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The GDR rock band Silly, poems by Alice Miller, and Katja Hoyer on the rise of fascism in interwar Weimar
Aesthetics was definitely prioritized over clarity in these Turkish infographics from the 1920s, but it's okay because they're the best you've ever seen. My latest for @publicdomainrev.bsky.social:
Some pictures from our latest Immer Schon event at Lettretage… this time we were talking about Sebald and I read from A DREAM OF WHITE HORSES (@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social)… it was a fun evening!
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Alexander Wells
Mathilde Montpetit
Sanders Isaac Bernstein
Nora Biette-Timmons
Meine Recherche zum ELNET, der größten Israel-Lobby-Organisation in Europa, zuerst in @thediasporist.bsky.social erschienen, ist jetzt bei @monde-diplomatique.fr auf Französisch zu lesen!
City Chicken vs City Chicken: Berlin's brutal and bloody rotisserie feud that's spawned lawsuits, criminal investigations and landed one chicken tycoon in prison for torture... www.heistberlin.com/news/nhas-ci...
Berlin weekender — 16th & 17th October
ft. @wordkunst.bsky.social Lauren Oyler @elusiveword.bsky.social Ryan Ruby @davidhering.bsky.social @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social @lucykulwiec.bsky.social Jared Pollen @minxmarple.bsky.social @gabrielflynn.bsky.social Martin Lechner, Donna Stonecipher ...
shout out (as ever) to @yanina.bsky.social for the posters, and a huge, huge thank you to our friends @ajbwells.bsky.social and @mathildegm.bsky.social @ The Auflauf, without whom this wouldn't be happening
Legal infographics that reflect a Turkish nation in flux.
Berlin weekender — 16th & 17th October
ft. @wordkunst.bsky.social Lauren Oyler @elusiveword.bsky.social Ryan Ruby @davidhering.bsky.social @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social @lucykulwiec.bsky.social Jared Pollen @minxmarple.bsky.social @gabrielflynn.bsky.social Martin Lechner, Donna Stonecipher ...
