Coburg, Germany Before, During, and After the War As Black History Month has recently passed its halfway mark, I'm returning to a theme I've written about before: Black Americans and Germany. Which, believe it or not, brings us to the northern Bavarian city of Coburg,...
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David Bowie in West Berlin and the ‘Berlin Trilogy’ Recordings
"Heroes" is the only Berlin Trilogy album fully created and recorded in Berlin Most music fans know that the British singer and musician David Bowie lived in West Berlin and created three albums there, commonly referred to as the "Berlin Trilogy" (Low, "Heroes", and...
Berlin’s Identity Crisis
What's Wrong with Berlin? I have lived in Berlin. I have explored Berlin. Like most Berliners, I love Berlin. But it's more like a love/hate relationship. Berlin is a city that doesn't really know what it wants to be when it grows up. More than seven years after BER...
Martin Luther King, Jr. in Berlin – East and West!
I'm still stunned. How could I never have heard of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s visit to Berlin? He even outdid JFK and Reagan by not only going to West Berlin in 1964, but crossing the Berlin Wall into East Berlin – where he gave not one, but two sermons! Do you...
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