Issue 7 · Berlin
- Editor’s Note
Becoming Berlin
“It’s the absence of Jews in Berlin that exerts the most force.”
- Memoir
The Second-Hand Jew
by Maxim Biller
“I don’t really want to eat with knives and forks once used by Nazis.”
- Memoir
It Might Even Be Nice
by Jakob Hein
“My mother was not Jewish enough for the Jewish cemetery.”
- Graphic
Regina Jonas: Woman Rabbi
by Elke R, Steiner
- Interview
A Conversation with Horst Hoheisel
“Public art is a political compromise. Art doesn’t know compromise.”
- Fiction
Paper Skin
by Jenny Erpenbeck
- Fiction
The Canvas
by Benjamin Stein
“During every meal we are reminded that we live among strangers.”
- Poetry
by Esther Dischereit - Memoir
A Chapter from my Life
by Barbara Honigmann
- Portfolio
by Sarah Schönfeld
- Essay
Protected
by Peter Wortsman
- Essay
Satirical Writings
by Kurt Tucholsky
- Portfolio
Berlin Portfolio
by Alan Luft
- Interview
A Conversation with Zafer Şenocak
“German multiculturalism died when people discovered that the foreigners were staying.”
- Fiction
Perilous Kinship
by Zafer Şenocak
“Fear no more for the future. We’re going to cure you.”
“She would have to survive one thousand German years in Sweden.”
“It was cruel to execute the Rosenbergs, but they were not innocent.”
“The War is lost. Why bring another child into this world?”
“Wait till I’m dead, they’ll realize what a gem they had in me.”
