Beyond Berlin
Stories —big and small— that start in Berlin and look eastward, where Europe´s heart beats and its future unfolds.
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The City of Sea and Dreams (opens the original)
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Twenty minutes. That’s how long the local train takes to run, on Poland’s Baltic coast, from one end of the country’s most complicated century to the other. Together, the three cities it connects are called Trójmiasto, the Tri-City. Gdańsk, the ancient one, is a thousand years old: today a tourist magnet, visited all year round but especially in summer, enchanting visitors with its Hanseatic brick architecture, completely rebuilt after the war with devotion to the smallest details. Sopot, the se
The Name of Things (opens the original)
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At 3:03 pm on September 11, 2001, 9:03 am in New York, I was in the office at Mediaset, Italy’s largest commercial broadcaster, at its headquarters in Cologno Monzese, on the outskirts of Milan. I was next to the Tgcom newsroom, to be precise. I worked as a product manager, and maintaining the news site was my project. Like every newsroom, we had no shortage of screens, some of them tuned to CNN. That’s where I first heard, then saw, the second plane hit the towers, called over by a colleague ru
LIVE - Cosa succede dopo la vittoria dell'AfD in Sassonia-Anhalt? Con Valentina Giannella (opens the original)
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One hundred years of Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry (opens the original)
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CharlottengradThere is a building on Köthener Straße 38 in Berlin, three hundred metres from Potsdamer Platz, that concentrates more history in a single address than most cities accumulate in a century. In 1977, David Bowie stood at a studio window here and watched two lovers kiss against the Wall. The song he wrote became "Heroes."<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aXTa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-m
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