Podcast Where To Eat: The HEIST Food Map Unpacked Ruthie Weissmann talks to food writers Jane Silver and Natalie Avila-Lamando to unpack the HEIST Food Map - a curated, up-to-date guide to 80 places Berliners actually eat at. Oct 26, 2026
News Protest Who’s Afraid of October 31? The Panic over Berlin’s Gen Z Protest Burning cars, fights with police and even the Hells Angels: we take a look beyond the scare stories around Berlin’s Gen Z Halloween protest to the demands behind it. Oct 26, 2026
News Police CDU Are We About to See an Exodus of Berlin Police? The CDU in other states have appealed to Berlin cops to transfer from the city. Is it working? Oct 23, 2026
Weekend What are you up to this weekend? We cast our eye across Berlin to provide a short roundup of what's going on from Thursday October 22 to Sunday October 25. Oct 22, 2026
News Islam Why Is a Berlin School Fighting So Hard to Prohibit Muslim Prayer? For almost two decades, one Wedding high school has been intent on prohibiting Muslim prayer on school grounds, despite protests from students and parents. Now, a Berlin court has upheld that ban. Oct 22, 2026
News Police Emergency How an Arson Attack Caused Safety-Critical Failures at Berlin Nuclear Waste Facility The Office for Radioactive Waste was temporarily downed by the historic four-day blackout in January, officials confirmed. Oct 21, 2026
News AfD AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right Hackers have published 281 GB of AfD emails as AI summaries, showing widespread antisemitism, racism, violent fantasies and alleged financial misconduct. Oct 20, 2026
News Die Linke Housing Elections What’s in the Red-Green-Red Coalition Plans for Berlin? Museum Sundays are coming back, long-term migrants could get voting rights, and there are concrete plans for housing socialisation: we examine the exploratory paper Oct 19, 2026
News BVG Why Has It Taken So Long to Fix U-Hermannplatz? After six years of construction, the BVG claims the second entrance will open in December. Oct 16, 2026
News History Namibia Genocide Debate in the Bundestag: What Does Germany Owe? As OvaHerero and Nama representatives watched, the Bundestag debated Germany's responsibility for the genocide in Namibia. The AfD called it a “cult of guilt”; the CDU rejected reparations. Oct 15, 2026
News SPD The Greens Die Linke Politics SPD and Greens Suspend Talks with Die Linke over Antisemitism Row The SPD and Greens have suspended exploratory talks. Die Linke says the agreement still stands. Nobody seems sure what happens next. Oct 14, 2026
News Police More Hidden-Camera Evidence Found in Women’s Toilets at Berlin Uni Two cameras were found in June. Now, more Velcro mounts have turned up in women’s toilets at the HWR, where Berlin police officers train. Oct 13, 2026
Podcast Goodbye to Berlin - Why I'm Leaving After 15 Years HEIST founding editor Ruthie Weissmann sits down with Zara Rahman to unpack her widely discussed essay explaining why she decided to leave Berlin. Oct 12, 2026
News Animals BVG Underground Mosquitoes Have Discovered the U-Bahn Tunnels New pest alert: mosquitoes are spending the winter in the warm, dark subway stations. Oct 12, 2026
News Die Linke SPD The Greens Die Linke, Greens and SPD Come to a Joint Agreement About Antisemitism The agreement means that the red-red-green coalition is now moving out of preliminary talks and closer towards an established government. Oct 9, 2026
News Politics Espionage Scandal in Germany: Ex-Spy Chief Arrested For Attempted Treason Former BND chief August Hanning's arrest is a mind-bending case of Iranian nuclear files, Israeli operatives and a steakhouse heiress accused of kidnapping her own kids. Oct 8, 2026
News Palestine Protest Three Years On: Berlin Marks October 7 With 10 Demos More than double the usual number of police officers will be out today, and one of the pro-Palestinian demos is already under investigation for glorification of violence. Oct 7, 2026
News Science Health Berlin Researcher Wins the Nobel Prize for Medicine Peter Hegemann shares the Nobel Prize in Medicine for research that began with a green algae found in Brandenburg's lakes and has since been used to treat blindness. Oct 6, 2026
News Food Museums Behold, the Last Surviving Piece of DDR Bread The frozen East German loaf survived three apartment moves and one case of lice to end up in the Deutschlandmuseum. Oct 2, 2026
Interview Music & Clubs Culture PEOPLE Festival 2026: "Expect the unexpected" The team behind the unique, unprogrammed festival on letting artists return to the roots of music creation inside Funkhaus. Oct 1, 2026
News Die Linke “I Was Naive”: Ferat Koçak Reveals Full Communication With the Remmos The Neukölln MP shared his Instagram and WhatsApp chats with Die Zeit, and has stepped back from the interior committee amid “attacks on my person.” Oct 1, 2026
News Construction History Bunker beneath Hitler's Chancellery Sparks Building Dispute Several bunkers lay beneath Hitler's chancellery, but can the city keep them straight? Plans for flats and offices may depend on which underground Nazi building is which. Sep 30, 2026
News Politics SPD Die Linke The Greens Talking, but Not 'in Talks': Berlin's Rocky Road to a Coalition The SPD and Greens won't yet call the talks "exploratory", while the CDU and CSU threaten Berlin's funding. A lesson in how coalitions get made. Sep 29, 2026
Podcast Berlin election winners and losers - with the HEIST editors The HEIST editors break down the major storylines of the Berlin election. Sep 28, 2026
