by finn ballard | Nov 19, 2020 | Blog
This month, I’d love to let you know more about a figure we discussed during the last History Club meeting: Martin Dibobe, Germany’s first Black activist. Dibobe was born in Cameroon and educated by German missionaries. He was brought to Berlin in 1896 as...
by finn ballard | Nov 12, 2020 | Blog
This month, I’d like to recommend ‘Alone in Berlin’. Don’t be intimidated about it being quite a tome – it is a fast read, though a harrowing one. Based upon the true story of Elise and Otto Hampel, a working-class Berlin couple who...
by finn ballard | Nov 5, 2020 | Blog
This month, let’s remember Eva-Maria Buch, from Charlottenburg in Berlin, a devout Catholic and linguistics student at the Humboldt University. Alongside her studies, she worked in a second-hand bookstore, where she encountered leftist thinkers, and members of...
by finn ballard | Oct 29, 2020 | Blog
This month, you might be especially interested to read Deborah Feldman’s memoir ‘Unorthodox.’ Feldman left the ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to move to Berlin in 2014. Her story has been adapted into a Netflix...
by finn ballard | Oct 22, 2020 | Blog
We all deserve a smile this month, so let’s have a four-legged hero! Have you heard of a Pointer named Judy, mascot of the Royal Navy and the only canine POW during WWII? On board the HMS Gnat and HMS Grasshopper, she proved a failure as a gundog, but her...
