Where the Generals Lay
Die Ruhestätte der Feldherren
The Berlin Wall ran ruthlessly through everything – homes, city squares and even burial grounds. One of these was the Prussian-era Invalidenfriedhof.
The Berlin Wall ran ruthlessly through everything – homes, city squares and even burial grounds. One of these was the Prussian-era Invalidenfriedhof.
Tilted awkwardly "as if Chaplin was turning on his shoe", this 77-ton Richard Serra 'Berlin Block' is both a tribute to the comedian and a comment on the Cold War…
I noticed him whilst I was hanging around a Bahnhof entrance in Neukölln, waiting to photograph the station disgorge passengers. Was he Vietnamese, I wondered, and was he selling contraband…
Looking for press studs for a cushion cover, I was stunned to discover this in my sewing kit – in Malaysia. The 'Made in West Germany' declaration meant they were…
Trust Berlin to have an airport-sized park in the middle of the city that was actually once an airport.
This is a translation by Volker Wolf, of SL Wong's 'Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood'. Originally titled 'Zwei Wege Trenten Sich im Herbslichen Wald', it appeared in 'Kuala Lumpur - Berlin: Kisah Dua Bandar Raya / Kuala Lumpur - Berlin: Stadtgeschichten' (2012), a book by the Goethe-Institut Malaysia and the Malaysian Institute of Translation & Books.
This is a translation by Hedy Holzwarth, of SL Wong's 'Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood'. Originally titled 'Dua Jalan Berpisah di Hutan Kuning', it appeared in 'Kuala Lumpur - Berlin: Kisah Dua Bandar Raya / Kuala Lumpur - Berlin: Stadtgeschichten' (2012), a book by the Goethe-Institut Malaysia and the Malaysian Institute of Translation & Books.
Translations of this essay in German and Bahasa Malaysia appear in 'Kuala Lumpur – Berlin: Kisah Dua Bandar Raya / Kuala Lumpur – Berlin: Stadtgeschichten' (2012), a book by the…