News BVG This Is the Slowest Bus in Berlin At 13.1 kilometres per hour, the 147 bus travels the speed of a brisk jog, or a child's bicycle. Apr 14, 2026
Features Palestine Politics Parallel Lives: How It Feels to Be Palestinian in Berlin Two years of genocide and a German state intent on fracturing their community have forced Palestinians in Berlin to create their own structures of support. Apr 13, 2026
News Police Protest Executions Are Now Banned at Demos The Berlin police have decided that while they can still employ violence at protests, nobody can reenact any. Apr 13, 2026
Görlitzer Park Interview Exclusive: Meet the Mastermind Bunnies Behind the Görlitzer Park Plot The bunnies are a mysterious entity, but they did give HEIST some privileged details on how they pulled it off. Apr 10, 2026
News CDU Protest CDU Offices Rebranded as “Egg Houses” on Google Maps A wave of map hijackings across Germany saw party offices renamed after eggs, with some linking the stunt to anti-conscription protests. Apr 10, 2026
News History Nazis Was Your Grandfather a Nazi? NSDAP Membership Now Searchable Online The US National Archives has made 12 million Nazi membership cards searchable online. The database includes some familiar names. Apr 9, 2026
News Görlitzer Park Copies of Görlitzer Park "Master Key" Distributed By Mysterious Bunnies The masked "Union of Easter Bunnies" handed out chocolates with the master key to the park's controversial fence locks – and also hid a few for members of the press. Apr 8, 2026
Features Digital Violence You Can’t Protect Women With Laws Alone The abuse of Collien Fernandes means Germany is rethinking its laws. The problem may be bigger than that. Apr 7, 2026
News Bundeswehr German Men Now Need Army Permission to Leave the Country Conscription law now requires men ages 18–45 to get approval before travelling abroad for more than three months. Apr 7, 2026
News BSR The 9,540 Tonnes of Winter Gravel are Finally Gone Just in time for the Easter deadline, the BSR have swept up all those little black rocks. It's still stuck in the escalators, though. Apr 3, 2026
News Clubs Instagram Deactivates KitKat Club and Insomnia Two sex-positive nightclubs had their Instagram accounts deactivated in what one called "blatant American censorship." Apr 2, 2026
News Palestine Protest Protests Outside Babylon Kino as Francesca Albanese Speaks on Gaza Around 150 people gathered in Mitte as Francesca Albanese accused Germany of complicity in what she called Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Apr 1, 2026
News Police Who Was Hiding in the S-Bahn Tunnels at Potsdamer Platz? With the Syrian president in town, police were on high alert – but they still didn't catch whoever was lurking in the tunnels. Mar 31, 2026
News Syria Syria's Controversial New Leader Comes to Berlin Police are readying for protests Monday as interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa arrives for a rescheduled lunch with Merz – presumably to talk about their shared interest in relocating Germany's Syrian refugees. Mar 30, 2026
News Charité Hospital Health Beware the SlopDoc: Charité Warns Of AI Videos Advertising Miracle Drugs Deepfake videos of the hospital's doctors promising "technically impossible" medical solutions are circulating in Berlin. Mar 27, 2026
Features AfD LGBTQ With Its Queer Rhetoric, the AfD Attempts to Swing Both Ways The use and abuse of queer identity by the German far-right. Mar 27, 2026
News Protest Activists Scale Rheinmetall Weapons Factory in Wedding to Protest Genocide Activists poured red paint from the roof of the Wedding Rheinmetall factory, which went from making car parts to weapons. Mar 26, 2026
News Police Police Launch Mass Raids Over Grid Sabotage — And Remain in the Dark Police raided 14 Berlin properties associated with Berlin's left-wing scene. But after 500 officers deployed and zero arrests, evidence seems to be thin on the ground. Mar 25, 2026
News Politics The Taliban Are Quietly Running the Afghan Embassy in Berlin The Taliban appear to have taken control of the Berlin embassy without explicitly informing Germany. What does it mean for the 442,000 Afghans living in the country? Mar 24, 2026
News Protest Deepfake Porn Scandal: Thousands Protest Digital Sexual Violence in Berlin Thousands attended a rally in front of Brandenburg Gate to demonstrate against the "virtual rape" of German media personality Collien Fernandes. Mar 23, 2026
News Housing How To Spot a Housing Scam Berlin recorded almost 5,000 new cases of rental fraud last year. Mar 20, 2026
News Politics The Mayor Played One Game Of Tennis – And Can't Stop Lying About It Did Berlin's mayor lie twice about the January blackout? New documents cast fresh doubt on Kai Wegner's account of his crisis management. Mar 19, 2026
News CDU Berlin Justice Senator Wants to End Preferential Hiring for Migrants Felor Badenberg says a law favouring applicants with migration backgrounds in public sector jobs violates equal treatment and merit-based hiring. Mar 18, 2026
News Strike Strike Paralyses BER Airport: No Flights on Wednesday Berlin's BER airport faces a full shutdown on Wednesday as the Verdi union call a strike over pay: 445 flights are cancelled, with 57,000 passengers affected. Mar 17, 2026
News Görlitzer Park Will Berlin Be Forced to Backtrack on the Görli Fence? After years of protest, one anti-fence alliance is going the legal route to reopen Görlitzer Park at night. Mar 16, 2026
