Category Archives: Berlin
Valeska unveiled
A revolutionary production of Wilde’s Salomé staged by Valeska Gert in Berlin 100 years ago today
Valeska unveiled
A revolutionary production of Wilde’s Salomé staged by Valeska Gert in Berlin 100 years ago today
Secret Satan, 2022
You know what to expect by now, surely? Well, expect even more of it: this is our biggest year-end book selection yet.
Three Prose Works
A selection of vital and biographically charged pre-World War One fiction from the great Else Lasker-Schüler
Three Prose Works
A selection of vital and biographically charged pre-World War One fiction from the great Else Lasker-Schüler
22 books for 2022
We’ve got bad gays, can-can dancers and pataphysicians, we’ve got a Black Pope, an Expressionist Joan of Arc and the Last Emperor of Mexico. Won’t you join us?
22 books for 2022
We’ve got bad gays, can-can dancers and pataphysicians, we’ve got a Black Pope, an Expressionist Joan of Arc and the Last Emperor of Mexico. Won’t you join us?
Secret Satan, 2021 part 1
From Romanian avant-garde Elvis to all the Swedish anarchist Sufi Post-Impressionsists you can imagine
Secret Satan, 2021 part 1
From Romanian avant-garde Elvis to all the Swedish anarchist Sufi Post-Impressionsists you can imagine
Introducing Papa Hamlet
My latest translation for Rixdorf Editions, in case you’ve been wondering why things have been quiet around here …
Introducing Papa Hamlet
My latest translation for Rixdorf Editions, in case you’ve been wondering why things have been quiet around here …
Summer* reading list
A selection of beach reads – only some of them ironically so!
21 books for 2021
A selection of works with which to while away your second or third lockdown.
Secret Satan, 2020
Books to remember from a year you probably want to forget
Dear King of Holland
Else Lasker-Schüler returns to the Brandenburg Gate. Unfortunately, she’s not alone …
Dear King of Holland
Else Lasker-Schüler returns to the Brandenburg Gate. Unfortunately, she’s not alone …
Ludwig Christian Haeusser, 1920
Quite possibly the craziest story about Weimar Germany you’ve never heard
Ludwig Christian Haeusser, 1920
Quite possibly the craziest story about Weimar Germany you’ve never heard
Dada, 1920
The opening of the “First International Dada Fair” in Berlin 100 years ago
20 books for 2020
In which we visit Rogomelec and Sealand, the castle of truth and a fern-loved gully
20 books for 2020
In which we visit Rogomelec and Sealand, the castle of truth and a fern-loved gully
Secret Satan, 2019
From clean-lined architects to Dirty Helen Cromwell the potty-mouthed barkeep – let us join hands and make contact with the fabulous.
Secret Satan, 2019
From clean-lined architects to Dirty Helen Cromwell the potty-mouthed barkeep – let us join hands and make contact with the fabulous.
19 books for 2019
Who needs this many books? You do. YOU need this many books.
Secret Satan, 2018
Your essential Christmas book list – it’s naughty, it’s nice. Mostly naughty if we’re honest.
Secret Satan, 2018
Your essential Christmas book list – it’s naughty, it’s nice. Mostly naughty if we’re honest.
An unsettling incident
Johannes Baader and one of the very first art interventions, 100 years ago today in Berlin
An unsettling incident
Johannes Baader and one of the very first art interventions, 100 years ago today in Berlin
Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern
Mad king v. hapless professor in the final round of Weimar cinema
Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern
Mad king v. hapless professor in the final round of Weimar cinema
The lonely death of Valeska Gert
“Kitty’s a gourmet, he doesn’t like me anymore …”
Privates on parade
“His day’s service at an end, the soldier usually goes home to his friend…”
Strange Flowers 