Headline
Palast der Republik: The tumultuous story of Berlin’s lost people’s palace
In 2006, Berlin tore down East Germany’s Palast der Republik and replaced it with the contentious Humboldt […]
Object Lesson
The Berliners who invented the world’s first pregnancy test
What do rabbits, toads, mice and morning urine have in common? They are all part of the […]
Berlin
13 lost historical postcards from Berlin’s roaring 1920s
In the 1920s, Berlin saw a brief return to normalcy between two devastating wars. We take a […]
Friday, August 23
Petersallee to Maji-Maji Allee: Street honouring colonial murderer gets renamed
Instead of honouring the brutal colonialist Carl Peters, the street in Wedding will now be called Maji-Maji-Allee […]
History
A human zoo: The dark colonial history of Zoologischer Garten
Berlin’s oldest zoo has a dark history. Not even 80 years ago, it was still displaying people.
Podcast
Record where you stand: Digging up the human remains in Berlin museums
Dig Where You Stand is a three-part podcast which examines the thousands of colonial-era human remains being […]
