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The author Musa Okwonga hasn’t looked back on his decision to leave his home country Great Britain. On a life between Eton College, day-to-day life in Berlin and memories of Uganda.
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Civil war, nightly air raids and a lack of water: there was no future for Mohammad El-Hassan in Lebanon. That’s why he fled to Berlin in 2003. Today he works as a cook in Prenzlauer Berg.
moreBlack and white thinking (Issue II/2022)
Irina Shcherbakova was born in Moscow in 1949 and is a well-known historian and expert in German studies. Since the 1970s, she has been working to come to terms with the impact of the Stalin era on Russia. She is one of the founders of the now-outlawed NGO, Memorial.
moreUnder the Earth (Issue I/2022)
Historian Frauke Heard-Bey moved from Berlin to Abu Dhabi in 1967 for love. More than fifty years later, she calls the Emirates her home - and has helped build up an entire national archive.
moreMake it yourself (Issue IV/2021)
Welket Bungué, born in Xitole in the south of Guinea-Bissau in 1988, is an actor and filmmaker. After living and working in Portugal and Brazil, he now lives in Berlin.
moreThe new Poland (Issue III/2021)
Bjeen Alhassan, born in Qamishli, Syria, now lives in Germany. In her Facebook group “Learning with Bijin” she helps refugee women, earning her the German Integration Award.
moreThe hunters and the hunted (Issue II/2021)
Auma Obama is a German scholar, sociologist, author - and Barack Obama's sister. She doesn't like to discuss her famous brother, preferring to talk about her life and her work between Germany and Kenya.
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Since 2019 Léontine Meijer-van Mensch, from the Netherlands, directs the state ethnographic collections in Saxony and the ethnology museums in Leipzig, Dresden and Herrnhut.
moreThe better America (Issue IV/2020)
The painter and musician Liane Birnberg tells about her life.
moreThe better America (Issue IV/2020)
The painter and musician Liane Birnberg tells about her life.
moreThe better America (Issue IV/2020)
The painter and musician Liane Birnberg tells about her life.
moreThe better America (Issue IV/2020)
The painter and musician Liane Birnberg tells about her life.
moreTalking about a revolution (Issue II/2020)
The film maker from Bangladesh tells of his life.
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The Ukrainian cultural activist Diana Berg talks about her life and how protesting pro-Russian forces marked a turning point in her biography.
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The director, film lecturer and president of Akademie der Künste, Berlin, tells of her life.
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I grew up as though I was an extra in the film, Anna and the King of Siam: Among royalty in Phnom Penh in the 1950s and ‘60s. My father led the orchestra there. Since my birth, I had travelled with him because he wanted me to become a musician. If he didn’t take me, and I was forced to stay behind with my mother, I would dig a hole, get into it and cry for my father as though my life depended on it.
morePoorest nation, richest nation (Issue III+IV/2018)
As a child I lay in the fields in my small Lithuanian village and dreamed of somewhere else. Ninety years later I am sitting in Brooklyn and asking myself: Why am I no longer there, in the fields of my childhood?
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The Bulgarian Software ingenieur - and amateur radio lover - tells of his life
moreEarth, how are you doing? (Issue I/2018)
The Indian writer and poet tells of his life.
moreUne Grande Nation (Issue IV/2017)
The Italian doctor and politician, who coordinates first aid to migrants who land in Lampedusa, talks about his life.
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