Tag: berlin

• Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex

  June 6, 2025

  Years before the Weimar Republic’s well-chronicled freedoms, the 1904 non-fiction study Berlin’s Third Sex depicted an astonishingly diverse subculture of sexual outlaws in the German capital. James J. Conway introduces… more ›

• The Forgotten History of the World’s First Trans Clinic

  June 6, 2025

  The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology. These heartbreaking stories, Hirschfeld wrote in The Sexual History of… more ›

• ‘Half our villages are dying’: How digital nomad hubs are reinvigorating rural Europe

  July 22, 2024

  The boom in remote working in recent years has turned major European cities like Lisbon, Barcelona and Berlin into so-called ‘digital nomad hubs’. But tensions are running increasingly high between local… more ›

• ‘The kind of photography that translates our dreams into inspiring and indelible images’: 25 years of CAMERA WORK

  September 18, 2022

  Named after the journal established by Alfred Stieglitz in 1903, CAMERA WORK was set up in 1997 in an old coach house discovered by Garner’s friend, the photographer Helmut Newton. Over the years… more ›

• transmediale 2021–22 : artists in residence

  November 10, 2020

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• Auf wiedersehen, techno: Berlin’s banging Berghain club reborn as a gallery

  September 8, 2020

  With nightlife in limbo due to Covid-19, the legendary temple of techno has reinvented itself as art gallery. If a new report by nightlife consultancy VibeLab is anything to go… more ›

• Germany’s sex workers demand easing of Covid-19 restrictions

  August 6, 2020

  Sex workers in Germany are appealing to politicians to ease coronavirus restrictions that have prevented them from working during the pandemic. Groups representing the more than 40,000 sex workers officially… more ›

• Opening transmediale 2020 End to End

  January 28, 2020

  transmediale/ art& digitalculture newsletter Opening transmediale 2020 End to End Schedule bookmark Related events: Related texts: https://2020.transmediale.de/content/opening-transmediale-2020-end-to-end more ›

• Documenting American segregation at the Berlin Wall

  November 9, 2019

  On August 13, 1961, East German forces closed the borders of East Berlin and encircled the allied sectors of the city’s western half. Two weeks later, American photographer Leonard Freed… more ›

• ‘The New Berlin Wall’: Why Ukraine Is Central to the Scandal

  September 27, 2019

  IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Ukraine — His voice crackling over what he complained was a “terrible” sound system, Donald J. Trump in September 2015 heaped praise on the oligarch who had invited him… more ›