Features Film How to Build a Film Utopia: Archival Assembly #4 Now at Arsenal Kino's new home in Silent Green, Archival Assembly is a deliberately political, universalist film festival – and it's not afraid of big ideas. Sep 25, 2026
Features Interview Books "Not Just Recognition, but Shame": Abdulrazak Gurnah on Berlin's Colonial Past Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah talks to HEIST about colonialism's afterlife in Berlin, museum basements and the story of Bayume Mohamed Husen. Aug 31, 2026
Interview Books AfD Dagmar Herzog on the "Sexy Racism" of the AfD In her book The New Fascist Body, historian Dagmar Herzog has provided one of the most clear-eyed analyses of the German far right. Aug 14, 2026
Features Interview Tesla Podcast "We Don't Know What Crazy Means": Quinn Slobodian on Musk, the AfD and How to Understand the Modern Far Right Historian Quinn Slobodian spoke to HEIST about his books Muskism, Hayek's Bastards, and the intellectual lineage of the modern far right. Jul 22, 2026
Interview Housing Politics "A Frontal Attack on the Constitution": DWE on Berlin's Housing Fight We spoke to Livia of Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen about Merz's attempt to thwart the socialisation of housing. Jul 10, 2026
Interview History Art "A Landscape of Death": Forensic Architecture on Germany's Other Genocide We sat down with Agata Nguyen Chuong to discuss 'Fractured Lifeworlds', Forensic Architecture's Namibian genocide investigation, now at Spore Initiative. Jun 12, 2026
Features Charité Hospital How Does It Feel to Cut Into a Human Brain? As anatomical preparator at Charité hospital, Navena Widulin has spent 30 years cutting up cadavers — and she loves her job. May 29, 2026
Interview Politics Palestine How to Stage a Political Assassination: The Neukölln Attack That Never Happened Journalist Yossi Bartal on the Al-Mashhadani fraud - part of a growing trend of false claims of political violence among proponents of German Staatsräson. May 12, 2026
Features Interview History Museums The "UFO" that changed our vision of human history A new exhibition in Berlin opens a window into humanity's distant past. Discover Göbeklitepe, the 12,000-year-old site that upends everything we thought we knew about human history. May 7, 2026
