Berlin - City of Literature

“Whoever says A, does not have to say B. He can also recognise that A was wrong” – the dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht was one of the most important German...

Christa Wolf was one of the GDR’s most important writers. And simultaneously she has also always been a successful author throughout the whole of Germany due to her...

Damals, tief in den 80er Jahren, als Berlin noch „Berlin (West)“ für die einen, und „Hauptstadt der DDR“ für die anderen hieß, da galt die westliche Stadthälfte als...

The award of the prize was a sensation: in autumn 2009 Herta Müller received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Thus the author was honoured for her books in which she...

You can read everywhere, but what about being able to listen? In order to do so, specific rooms and literary locations are still needed. One of the nicest locations...

This villa has been through a lot. Built in 1889, it was a residential house before becoming a military hospital during the First World War. After that, it went...

God lives in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg, at Choriner Strasse 61 to be precise. And because Ahne lives just around the corner, the two meet regularly for a chat. There's...

The ticket only cost 96 roubles. And you didn’t need a visa then either. That Wladimir Kaminer came to Berlin in 1990 was probably something of an accident. That he...