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German designer Sabrina Dehoff. She cut her teeth working for Guy Laroche and Lanvin in Paris, but we can be thankful that she returned to Berlin to start her own label in 2005.
View ArticleMy perfect Berlin weekend: Ulrich Schreiber
A look inside the intriguing lives of Berliners.
View Article“My dream is to be the female Strokes!”
Interview: Doctorella. Ditching Hamburg in the early noughties, the Grether twins have become Prenzlauer Berg's premiere Powerfrauen rock group.
View ArticleMaschina Dreams
Interview: Jasmina Maschina, one-half of Australian electronic duo Minit. Having forged a prolific playlist of meditative re-wired records, her album Alphabet Dream Noise (Staubgold) premieres in...
View ArticleIn bed with... Mary Ocher
Berlin’s off-kilter folk queen brims with restless ambition. Now, Mary is stepping out with a debut album, War Songs (Haute Areal). She gets us in bed and tells us her secrets.
View Article"Prostitutes are like trained actresses"
Interview: Michael Glawogger, director of documentary's Working Man's Death and Megacities isn't new to filming life's secrets as he uncovers a world of bordellos in Whores' Glory.
View ArticleMando Diao in five dates
1999 After their high school band splits up, Dixgård and Gustaf Norén commit themselves to Mando Diao full time, locking themselves up in Norén’s summer housewhere they spend six months writing songs.
View ArticleSwede-r than Coca-Cola
Interview: Mando Diao's Björn Dixgård rang to talk about the band's stint as harmonizing hermits in the Swedish wilderness and road to fame, rising over the last decade from pouty garage revivalists...
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Anna Calvi. After being taken under Brian Eno’s wing, the spooky half-Italian, half-English Calvi found her self-titled debut becoming a BBC Sound of 2011 and Mercury Prize-nominee.
View Article"The demons can come and visit me. I’m open for business"
FROM THE ARCHIVES. Interview: Tori Amos. The scarlet songstress returns with an album of classical compositions, performing them at Tempodrom on Oct 11.
View ArticleMelvins
With the 20th anniversary of the release of Nevermind fast approaching, inaugurate your teary eyed remembrances with a show by one of Kurt's primary influences, sludge-rock innovators Melvins. To brush...
View Article"The problem lies mainly with the Germans"
Interview: director Christian Zübert. In Dreiviertelmond, he gives his version of the common tale of an unusual friendship – between a Franconian man and a young Turkish girl.
View ArticleThat "Go Away" bite: An interview with Peter Murphy
The Bauhaus frontman re-emerges after his last reunion foray with Ninth, his strongest solo work in years. You can hear for yourself on Monday, October 24 at Postbahnhof.
View ArticleInterview: director Peter Dörfler
Few actually know the whole tale of Spreepark. Dörfler’s Achterbahn gets behind the fences, guard dogs and security to give us the story behind the park.
View ArticleThomas Scheibitz at a glance
Born in 1968 in Radeberg, the artist has since made Berlin his home. He exhibited works at London’s Whitechapel Gallery in 1999, just a year after graduating with an MFA from Dresden’s HfbK.
View Article“When I’m lucky I find myself on the verge of invention”
With two solo exhibitions and one group show, you’ll be seeing a lot of Thomas Scheibitz in Berlin this fall. We asked Scheibitz about his process and his recent work.
View ArticleConfessions of an expat bike thief
Where does that ‘secondhand’ bike you bought on the bridge came from? If anyone knows, it’s ‘S’, a Detroit native with four years of bike-stealing experience.
View Article“The location is a presence”
Interview: Sophie Fiennes. Nearing the completion of his Gesamtkunstwerk, artist Anselm Kiefer approached Fiennes about filming his creation. The director discusses her film, testament to the great...
View Article“I think all of us deserve booing at some point in our life”
Interview: Carla Bley. The polymathic jazz figure plays bass with Steve Swallow’s Quintet on Nov 6 as part of JazzFest Berlin, opening Nov 2.
View ArticleYann Tiersen: One man is an island
Best known as the fellow who created the soundtrack for Amélie, Yann Tiersen shall be presenting songs from Skyline (Mute) at Astra on November 7.
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