News SPD Elections Election Shock: SPD Candidate Raided On Suspicion of Corruption Berlin SPD mayoral candidate Steffen Krach has had his home and party offices raided as police look into potential bribery. Sep 10, 2026
News Emergency Warning: Prepare for an Ear-Splitting Warning At 11:00 on Thursday, 550 emergency sirens will go off across Berlin. Sep 10, 2026
Weekend What are you up to this weekend? We cast our eye across Berlin to provide a short round-up of what's going on from Thursday September 10 to Sunday September 13. Sep 9, 2026
News CDU Politics Antisemitism Funding Scandal: Joe Chialo Cleared to Testify, but Will He? The former CDU culture senator has been cleared to testify against his successor in the criminal investigation, but runs the risk of incriminating himself. Sep 9, 2026
News AfD Protest Thousands in Berlin Demonstrate Against AfD After Sachsen-Anhalt Election Plus, a brief look at some of the AfD members' bizarre histories. Sep 8, 2026
Features Die Linke Berlin Election Guide Die Linke: The Rent is Too Damn High The HEIST election guide to Die Linke and their lead candidate Elif Eralp. Sep 7, 2026
Features CDU Berlin Election Guide The CDU: Please Forget About All The Corruption The HEIST election guide to the CDU and their lead candidate Stefan Evers. Sep 7, 2026
Features Berlin Election Guide SPD The SPD: You Can't Kill Us If We're Already Dead The HEIST guide to the SPD and their lead candidate Steffen Krach. Sep 7, 2026
Features AfD Berlin Election Guide The AfD: We Would Like You All To Leave The HEIST election guide to the AfD and their lead candidate Kristin Brinker. Sep 7, 2026
News Berlin Senate Hackers Release 5.8 Terabytes of Berlin's Confidential Data Here's everything the digital attackers uploaded after the government missed their ransom deadline. Sep 7, 2026
News CDU Drugs The Politician, the Rapper and the Drugs Party Did German rapper Ski Aggu really see former health minister Jens Spahn doing the "fattest lines" at a chem party? It would be legally inadvisable to suggest so. Sep 4, 2026
News Elections Berlin Election: New Poll Has CDU in the Lead Things are looking dicey at the top after a new rbb poll saw the CDU take the lead in Berlin. Meanwhile, Stefan Evers and Elif Eralp are neck and neck for mayor. Sep 3, 2026
News Russia Germany Is Closing the Russian House After Drone Attack at Leipzig Airport The Russian House on Friedrichstraße has long been suspected of being a spy centre. Russia says the response is a "serious mistake." Sep 2, 2026
News Berlin Senate Passwort.docx: How Hackers Got Berlin Senate Passwords New details on the Berlin Senate cyberattack, the largest data breach in Berlin's history. Hackers are demanding 30 bitcoin (~€2 million) in ransom. Sep 1, 2026
News Die Linke Elections Media Turns on Die Linke Over Anti-Israel Sentiment at Campaign Event The CDU wants other parties to rule out a left-wing coalition, while some newspapers can't resist a racist dig of their own. But what really happened in Neukölln on Saturday? Aug 31, 2026
Podcast Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah on Germany's Colonial Past On European blindness, Germany's shame, and different kinds of global centers. Aug 31, 2026
News Money Meet Hendrik Holt: The €10 Million Fraudster Who Just Escaped Berlin Prison The fraudster was sentenced to nine years in prison for tricking energy companies out of €10 million. Now, he's posting on Instagram "Greetings from Moscow, it's very nice here, the caviar is fantastic." Aug 28, 2026
News Police Neukölln Unexploded World War II Bomb Forces Mass Evacuation in Neukölln Thousands of people had to temporarily leave their apartments as the WW2 bomb was defused just a few streets away from Sonnenallee. Aug 27, 2026
News Books AI Is an Unknown AI Buying Up Rare Berlin Books, Then Destroying Them? A Canadian company placed repeated automated orders at Berlin antiquarian shops. The books were shipped to Chicago. Experts suspect AI training. Aug 26, 2026
News Bundeswehr Food The German Army's Latest Recruiting Scheme? Döner Wrappers The German army has expanded its recruiting drive to Berlin kebab shops, sending out promotional material advertising the army as: 'One career with everything.'" Aug 25, 2026
News Elections Politics Berlin Election: Die Linke Four Points Clear as Wahl-O-Mat Goes Live A Forsa poll shows Die Linke's first clear lead of the campaign, plus the Wahl-O-Mat voting aid comes online today. Aug 24, 2026
News Weather Tornado Hits Brandenburg: "Severe Damage" Winds of 150 kilometres per hour blew through the town of Fürstenwalde just outside Berlin, sending trees and roofing flying. Aug 21, 2026
News Climate change Protest Activists Disable 20 SUVs in Charlottenburg, Screw Lentils in Tyre Valves The Widerstands-Kollektiv deflated tyres on 20 SUVs in Charlottenburg, calling the vehicles a "disaster for our world". Aug 20, 2026
News S Bahn Deutsche Bahn This S-Bahn to BER Is Closed for the Rest of August The S-Bahn lines serving the airport are suspended until the end of August. Replacement buses are running, but plan ahead (or take a regional train). Aug 19, 2026
