“At this point there’s no alternative to quotas.”
Ines Pohl, the editor-in-chief of Germany’s influential daily taz (Die Tageszeitung), talks about her job, the quota debate and the loneliness of the female executive.
View ArticleInterview: Patrick Wolf
FROM THE ARCHIVES. Although the second half of his long-awaited double album, The Conqueror, has so far failed to materialize, Wolf has birthed Lupercalia to the world, featuring the sunny single "The...
View ArticleMy perfect Berlin weekend: Randy Twigg
Randy Twigg, the Berlin-based rocker with a penchant for whiskey and hard sounds, has been on the scene for a long time. See her next action-packed performance at EXBERLINER’s own Wednesday at Kaffee...
View ArticleRune in the Volksbühne
Interview: David Tibet of Current 93. Current 93 came into the world three decades ago like a caterwauling neo-folk tumor on the body of industrial music. And have grown immensely.
View ArticleHow many people are in Terre Thaemlitz?
Interview: Terre Thaemlitz.. He is many men. And many women. And many others. Thaemlitz performs as DJ Sprinkles at Cookies on March 31.
View ArticleTruer Grit
Interview: director Debra Granik. The stark, gritty and suspenseful Winter's Bone hits Berlin cinemas today. Granik's realism on film is not just movie magic, but a careful study of an overlooked way...
View ArticleAn interview with Lykke Li
All those drums on her new record rendered the well-traveled Swede pretty beat when she spoke with us. She should be more animated during her gig at Astra on Tuesday, April 5.
View ArticleBeater of Meat: Jack Dangers
The driving force behind electronic pioneers Meat Beat Manifesto, sound sculptor and audio-visual synthesist Jack Dangers has been redefining musical boundaries for 25 years. MBM performs on April 10...
View ArticleChris Corner: Y IAMX
FROM THE ARCHIVES. Interviewed in November 2008, ex-Sneaker Pimp Chris Corner talked about his IAMX project, and his relocation to Berlin. IAMX play Astra on April 14.
View ArticleThe brave at home
FROM THE ARCHIVES. Interview: Laurie Anderson. The tinkerer and performance artist gives us insight into her own Big Science. Anderson will be performing at Volksbühne on May 17 supporting her new...
View ArticleDo you want them?
Interview: The Human League. Needless to say, they’re best known for their failed-relationship anthem “Don’t You Want Me”. Their first album in a decade, Credo, allows them at Huxley’s Neue Welt on Apr...
View ArticleMy name is Peaches
FROM THE ARCHIVES. Interview: Peaches. Round two of Peaches Does Herself is coming to HAU 1. As a little extra treat for you, we found the VERY FIRST Exberliner interview with her from 2004.
View ArticleEight questions for...
Christine Korte, fashion writer and editor. Christine Korte has lived in Berlin for two years as a fashion and lifestyle writer for Bild.de and Grazia magazine. She lived in Munich, Milan and Paris,...
View Article"We are the army of invaders"
Interview: Esther Schipper. What's behind the decision to relocate from Mitte to Schöneberg Ufer? Is it the end of an era or a new beginning? For Schipper, it's all history.
View ArticleMy perfect Berlin weekend: Dara Drea O'Neill
Dara Drea O'Neill (28) is a founding owner of Kleine Reise, the upstart Kreuzberg club that after only a year is already the number one spot for the Görlitzer YUKI crowd. What's his idea of the perfect...
View ArticleThe Brits are back
Interview: Sue Webster. Turning the Seventh Corner features influential artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster and inaugerates the former Haunch of Venison head honchos' new gallery: Blain|Southern.
View ArticleThe Steiner Art Tapes
Interview: Mike Steiner. Before the modern-day artist enclave explosion in the former East, Steiner opened an artist hotel in the West, followed by his Studiogalerie where avant-gardists played with...
View Article“There is no such thing as an ‘immigration theme’”
Interview: director Nurkan Erpulat. Erpulat’s rising fame in German theater defies all the media clichés about Turkish immigrants. Verrücktes Blut (Mad Blood) won him of an invitation to the...
View ArticleFritto layabout
Interview: Gatto Fritto. Having just released his Balearic-imbued debut last week, Fritto moans lyrical about all things London, post-war pop, the impossibility of happiness and why he’s a “jaded old...
View Article“The world’s most famous disabled band”
Interview: director Renaud Barret. Barret chronicles the incredible journey of the disabled Congolese band, Benda Bilili, from the streets to the big time.
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