No future for Zukunft am Ostkreuz?

Zukunft am Ostkreuz, a much loved arthouse cinema and cultural venue, has not been able to renew its lease. Its demise would represent a huge loss to the local community as well as the city of Berlin Entrance (before opening hours) to Zukunft am Ostkreuz, mid-January,...

Rebels with a cause

January stage roundup in ExBerliner magazine Matthias Brandt in ‘Mein Name sei Gantenbein’ at the Berliner Ensemble. Photograph: Andi Weiland Alienation and raging against the machine has been a virulent reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic. A number of shows...

Hit me, baby, one more time

A new show created by writer Lena Brasch and actor Sina Martens focuses on the Britney Spears in all of us – interview in ExBerliner magazine Actor Sina Martens and writer/director Lena Brasch, creators of ‘It’s Britney, Bitch!’ at the Berliner...

Political earthquake in Bavaria

THE dust is far from settling over Sunday’s parliamentary election in Bavaria. The CSU, a behemoth of Bavarian – and a frequent irritation in Federal German – politics, lost the absolute majority they’ve more or less held for decades. They are...

‘Guantanamo Bayern’

Bavaria’s new Polizeiaufgabengesetz (policing regulations act) has been called unconstitutional, the most Draconian since the Nazi era. On 10 May, tens of thousands of demonstrators thronged into Munich’s city centre to protest Storms were forecast, but...

A sweet deal for pensioners

An innovative Munich start-up employs pensioners to bake old-fashioned, traditional cakes. It offers them the opportunity to earn money, feel useful and meet people – and their customers, to enjoy cakes baked with love The sweet, warm fragrance envelopes you as soon...