A Brooklynites Guide To Berlin With Clare And The Reasons
Clare and The Reasons say they wanted a change of pace when setting out to record their third studio album. So the Brooklyn chamber-pop outfit relocated to Berlin for eight months to make KR-51, a new...
View ArticleClare And The Reasons: Brooklyn Pop Made In Berlin
When the Brooklyn chamber-pop outfit Clare And The Reasons decided to make its third studio album, the band realized they wanted a change of pace. So the group up and moved to Berlin. The resulting...
View ArticleHot Berlin Nights
Techno, raves, cabaret, punk, poetry, erotica ... it’s all happening in Berlin. We sent cultural correspondent Fiona Chutney to sample some of the city's famed nightlife. (Chutney is a character of the...
View ArticleToday in History: JFK in Berlin
On June 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy addressed a vast crowd of Germans on Rudolph Wilde Platz near the Berlin Wall. In his speech, Kennedy condemns the wall separating East from West, calling it...
View ArticleLeonard Bernstein's 'Ode to Freedom'
In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, WQXR presents a unique musical reminder of that extraordinary time.On Christmas Day, 1989, just six weeks after the Berlin Wall...
View ArticleA Conversation with Simon Rattle
Many great orchestras pass through New York every year, but the Berlin Philharmonic always seems to create a special buzz. That’s in no small part because of the orchestra’s conductor, Sir Simon...
View ArticleBerlin: 'Poor But Sexy,' Detroit: 'Empty But Sexy'
WDET's Martina Guzman spent six weeks in the German city of Berlin, exploring a long-recognized but underreported connection between that former manufacturing giant and the Motor City. In this post,...
View ArticleBetter Connections Through Techno: Detroit and Berlin
Detroit has long been called the birthplace of techno, and helped bring house music to a global stage in the 1980s — the kind of impact that still resonates around the world today, in the form of tens...
View ArticleThe Creative Class: How Detroit and Berlin Have Drawn Revitalizing Artists
Detroit and Berlin both know something about abandoned buildings. After the fall of the wall when the former east opened up, parts of Berlin looked a lot like Detroit today, where scores of buildings...
View ArticleBerlin's Operatic Rule of Three
After the construction of the Berlin Wall, the final months of 1961 in both West and East Berlin were particularly charged.Escape organizations in the west were tunneling across the border to shepherd...
View ArticleOpening Date For Berlin's New Airport Postponed; Airlines, Officials Seethe
Berlin Brandenburg Airport on May 4, 2012 (photo by Kate Hinds)The opening of Europe's newest airport has been pushed back yet again, infuriating airlines, embarrassing local officials and complicating...
View ArticleThe World's Top Five Cities for Classical Music
As nations vie for athletic superiority at the London Olympics, the Greater London Authority has created an international measuring stick to assess a location’s cultural merit. The 2012 World Cities...
View ArticleLuisa Weiss' Berlin Kitchen
Luisa Weiss tells what happens when she broke off her engagement to a handsome New Yorker, quit her dream job, and found her way to a new life, a new man, and a new home in Berlin—one recipe at a time....
View ArticleThe pact between Hitler and Stalin that paved the way for World War II was...
Seventy-five years ago this week, the world was turned upside down when Hitler and Stalin signed a pact of alliance. Within days Hitler invaded Poland, starting World War II. Roger Moorhouse, a...
View Article#3654: New Music from Berlin
Berlin has been a global capital of electronic music for decades. In this New Sounds edition, John Schaefer brings us the latest music you might hear in the late hours in this city. We'll hear...
View ArticleBerlin in Mind
With the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall occurring on Sunday, Germany’s capital has been much on my mind.It is the European city that I, as a New Yorker, make more comparisons with than...
View Article#3654: New Music from Berlin
Berlin has been a global capital of electronic music for decades. In this New Sounds edition, John Schaefer brings us the latest music you might hear in the late hours in this city. We'll hear...
View ArticleAndris Nelsons Conducts Mahler's Fifth Symphony
Tune in at 9 pm Tuesday as Terrance McKnight hosts this exclusive presentation of live performances by the Berlin Philharmonic recorded at its concert hall. This episode features the Latvian conductor...
View ArticleThis vivid installation splashes color across a long-abandoned military base
On a peninsula in Queens, New York, Berlin-based artist Katharina Grosse painted an abandoned military building as part of an ongoing public art festival. Photo by Andi Wang/PBS NewsHourTucked among...
View ArticleA Cold War Narrative of Escape Under the Berlin Wall
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.The Berlin Wall, built to separate East and West Berlin, fell at the end of the Cold War in 1989. It not only divided the city for 28 years,...
View ArticleNews Wrap: Trump transition gets moving while Pence visits Congress
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: The Trump transition operated on two fronts today, in New York and Washington. The president-elect received a parade of potential Cabinet officers,...
View Article9 dead after truck crashes into Christmas market in Berlin
Police secured the site where a truck drove through a crowd at a Christmas market in Berlin on Dec. 19. Photo by Fabrizio Bensch/ReutersA truck plowed into a Christmas market in Germany’s capital...
View ArticleWhat we know about the attacks in Germany and Turkey
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: It’s been a day of horror in the capital cities of Germany and Turkey.First Berlin, where a truck drove into a crowd of Christmas shoppers, leaving the...
View ArticleBerlin Truck Attack Exposes Political Divisions in Germany
The following story is by Thalia Beaty, a freelance print and radio journalist in Berlin and a Fulbright journalism fellow. Click on the 'Listen' button above for the full report.A famous Christmas...
View ArticleIs Berlin truck attack a turning point for Germany?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility tonight for the Berlin truck attack that killed a dozen people and injured 50.That word came hours...
View ArticleAfter violence in Turkey and Germany, Trump meeting with security adviser
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, then director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, testified during a hearing before the House (Select) Intelligence Committee February 4, 2014. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty...
View ArticleBerlin attack suspect is a ‘nightmare’ for authorities
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View ArticleWhy German surveillance failed to stop the Berlin attack suspect
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioThe post Why German surveillance failed to stop the Berlin attack suspect appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
View Article#AskTheMayor: Getting New Yorkers Health Insurance, Security Post-Berlin...
Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC, including a new initiative to sign up New Yorkers for Obamacare ahead of the Trump presidency,...
View ArticleNews Wrap: FBI says ISIS is urging holiday attacks on the U.S.
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioThe post News Wrap: FBI says ISIS is urging holiday attacks on the U.S. appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
View Article#3654: New Music from Berlin
Berlin has been a global capital of electronic music for decades. In this New Sounds edition, John Schaefer brings us the latest music you might hear in the late hours in this city. We'll hear...
View ArticleRosa Parks’ house may be returned to U.S. from Germany
Artist Ryan Mendoza gives an interview in front of Rosa Parks’ house on his property in Berlin on April 11. Photo by Oliver Barth/ReutersBERLIN — Section by section, American artist Ryan Mendoza...
View ArticleGreat Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums: Ella Fitzgerald Live in Berlin
Will Friedwald, author of The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums, is exploring some of the finest recordings of the 20th century on The Jonathan Channel. This week he looks at the Mack the Knife: Ella in...
View ArticleSyrian dancers perform show about migration in Berlin
In “Come as You Are” — directed by Berlin-based choreographer Nir de Volff — three dancers recount how the war in Syria started. Photo ® Bernhard MusilBERLIN — A group of Syrian dancers is going on...
View ArticleHaley Heynderickx at Berlin, Feb. 9
Gig Alert: Haley Heynderickx at Berlin, Feb. 9Tickets: $15. 21+. Show at 8PM.Singer and songwriter Haley Heynderickx ended 2017 on a number of year-end best-of lists, and on even more of those “what to...
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