News Housing Have Berlin Rents Finally Hit Their Ceiling? For the first time in years, rents in Berlin fell. But with asking rents around double what's being paid on average, don't expect to feel it yet. Apr 21, 2026
Features Politics Why Can't Berlin Have Its Own Mamdani? German politicians are scrambling to capitalise off Zohran Mamdani’s success in New York. Problem is, they’ve got no interest in engaging with his actual politics. Apr 20, 2026
News S Bahn S-Bahn “Hijackings” On The Rise S-Bahn surfing is on the rise. Reports of improper train travel in Berlin quadrupled last year, with teenagers posting their misdeeds to social media. Apr 20, 2026
News LGBTQ This Year's Christopher Street Day Will Be The Biggest Ever For the first time in half a century, Berlin's biggest Pride event will span two days – and it's explicitly focused on the upcoming elections. Apr 17, 2026
Stage Interview “I am not censoring myself at all”: Mudar Al-Khufash at the Berliner Ringtheater Palestinian-German artist Mudar Al-Khufash brings his lecture-performance Dialectics of Erasure to the Berliner Ringtheater. It runs through Sunday April 19. Apr 16, 2026
News AfD This AfD Influencer Does Not Exist From fake influencers to OnlyFans links, far-right accounts are combining AI-generated content and sexualised imagery to spread pro-AfD messaging on Instagram. Apr 16, 2026
News CDU Protest “I Stick To Money”: Activist Disguised As CDU Minister Glues Herself to Museum Display The protest targeted the economics minister's corporate ties, and briefly brought police to the Bode Museum. Apr 15, 2026
Strike Health Vivantes Hospital Workers Strike For Equal Pay On Wednesday morning, the workers responsible for cleaning, sterilising, and doing maintenance at eight of Berlin’s hospitals launched an indefinite strike. Apr 15, 2026
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
