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As an online-editor for a large daily newspaper, Walter Noack is in charge of eliminating rude remarks and hate speech from various comment sections. He is confronted with the most odious insults a thousand times a day. His nerves become even more frayed after he and subsequently a colleague are beaten seemingly at random by strangers, and his private life is shaken by loss.

Berlin is boiling hot in the first summer after the pandemic. The tourists are back in Party City, there are excessive parties everywhere, people are enjoying the time after the lockdown. Good business for Tom Lohoff, the facilitator, who has apartments, all kinds of drugs, sex and access to top clubs on offer for the party crowd from all over the world. And he has large gambling debts with a...

There is a restaurant in the Alte Schönhauser Straße 46 in Berlin-Mitte that became an international place of pilgrimage many years ago: Monsieur Vuong’s restaurant.

His image hangs on the brightly orange coloured wall and today his son Dat manages the establishment that sees long lines in front of it on a regular basis. Not to anyone’s surprise, as the food is delicious and...

Ten years after Rafael Horzon’s successful autobiography The White Book not much has been reported about the former darling of Berlin’s intelligentsia. It’s become too quiet, in his opinion. And so, he brings himself to try once more: With a new book, he wants to set himself up as the most important intellectual of the 21st century; indeed, even finally win the much longed-for Nobel...

Rafael Horzon’s The White Book grants us compelling insights into his fast-paced life as a furniture magnate, original genius and apple pie...

Berlin Things, published in 1975, is Uwe Johnson’s first volume of essays for which he compiled texts written between 1961 and 1971 that had largely been published elsewhere previously. Most of the texts were written on issues of day-to-day politics and they show Johnson as an alert intellectual who intervenes in politics with his journalistic research. Johnson...

Saad and his daughter Leila are living under the radar in Berlin. Saad earns his living as a security guard at a car park, working the night shift for good reason. This car park also houses the...

You love Berlin and know the extraordinary city on the Spree like the back of your hand? You’ll be surprised by how much is still waiting to be discovered! This book will take you to places that may soon become some of your favourites and where you’ll want to return over and over again.

What would a perfect day in Berlin look like? Start off with a...

Berlin welcomed almost half a million Russian refugees at the beginning of the1920s. In the inter-war period, the city was not only the »stepmother of Russian cities«, but also the secret centre...

Unter den Linden is considered the most famous street in Berlin. The metropolitan boulevard leads from the present into the past and points to the future.

This book tells the story of the »Linden«: of the promenade’s creation, its transformation into a metropolitan boulevard, of the heyday during the Enlightenment, Classicism, Romanticism, Biedermeier, the beginning...