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Alexander Lobanov, Untitled, n.d. Collection abcd, Paris. The opening lines of “From a Great Mind,” a song by the Siberian folk-punk singer Yanka Dyagileva, run something like this when translated from...
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Berlin’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Part 1
Life on the Karl-Marx-Allee, Block C South. Read Part 2 here. © WalcherBild Fridolin Walcher 2014 In the late eighties, the German Democratic Republic was bleeding people like money; the Iron Curtain...
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Berlin’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Part 2
Life on the Karl-Marx-Allee. Read Part 1 here. Karl-Marx-Allee Block C South, 1951. Philipp and Quentin live in an apartment next to the Rose Garden, in Block D North, a comely segment of the...
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Homesick for Sadness
A childhood in incompletion. The Berlin Wall in 1990. What was I doing the night the Wall fell? I spent the evening with friends just a few blocks from the spot where history was being made, and then:...
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Davoser Café, 1928. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Jenny Erpenbeck remembers her childhood in East Berlin: “My parents would bring me to the end...
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Homesick for Sadness
We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! * A childhood in incompletion. The Berlin Wall in...
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Alexander Lobanov, Untitled, n.d. Collection abcd, Paris. The opening lines of “From a Great Mind,” a song by the Siberian folk-punk singer Yanka Dyagileva, run something like this when translated from...
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Berlin’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Part 1
Life on the Karl-Marx-Allee, Block C South. Read Part 2 here. © WalcherBild Fridolin Walcher 2014 In the late eighties, the German Democratic Republic was bleeding people like money; the Iron Curtain...
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Berlin’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Part 2
Life on the Karl-Marx-Allee. Read Part 1 here. Karl-Marx-Allee Block C South, 1951. Philipp and Quentin live in an apartment next to the Rose Garden, in Block D North, a comely segment of the...
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Homesick for Sadness
A childhood in incompletion. The Berlin Wall in 1990. What was I doing the night the Wall fell? I spent the evening with friends just a few blocks from the spot where history was being made, and then:...
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This Week on the Daily
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Davoser Café, 1928. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Jenny Erpenbeck remembers her childhood in East Berlin: “My parents would bring me to the end...
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Homesick for Sadness
We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! * A childhood in incompletion. The Berlin Wall in...
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