by finn ballard | Mar 21, 2019 | Blog
Already thinking of spring and the beauty of Potsdam! Are you coming to Berlin this spring?
by finn ballard | Mar 14, 2019 | Blog
Although it’s no longer January, and (as you know) certainly no longer freezing, I heartily recommend ‘One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century’, the debut novel by German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig. A...
by finn ballard | Mar 7, 2019 | Blog
This fun group of queer history fans braved the cold on a January afternoon on my first open tour of 2019. Follow me on Instagram an Facebook to find out about more events coming soon!
by finn ballard | Feb 28, 2019 | Blog
Irene Sendler, Polish social worker and one of the ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ named at Yad Vashem. Sendler was a member of the Warsaw Underground during Nazi occupation, and headed the department of Zegota (the Polish Council to Aid Jews) which aimed to...
by finn ballard | Feb 21, 2019 | Blog
The one Berlin building seen best in wet weather due to its open skylight through which the rain can fall and make patterns on the ground: the former palace guardhouse. Do you know what it’s called nowadays?
by finn ballard | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog
I heartily recommend the 2017 Berlin-Jerusalem co-production ‘The Cakemaker’ (Ophir Raul Grazier). Without wanting to give away too much, it’s a sensuous powerful love story beyond homosexuality and heterosexuality, beyond national, ethnic and...
