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
Features Berlin Election Guide The Greens The Greens: Climate-Friendly, Conflict-Averse The HEIST election guide to the Greens and their lead candidate Werner Graf. Sep 7, 2026
Features Palestine Goodbye to Berlin: Why I'm Leaving This City After 15 Years After 15 years in Neukölln and working in German media, Zara Rahman is leaving Berlin because of dishonesty and moral hypocrisy. Sep 4, 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
Features Sport New Gods in Köpenick: The Rise of FC Union's Women's Team The 1. FC Union women’s team is pulling big crowds. Can the fans create a culture with staying power? Aug 21, 2026
Features Charité Hospital LGBTQ Health Berlin Has Cured HIV – Twice The German capital has quietly become a centre of important research for the long-stigmatised disease. Aug 7, 2026
Features Politics LGBTQ CDU I'm a Queer Arab Berliner. Our Lives Are Not Political Weapons Last weekend, a man drove a rented van into the crowd at CSD. By Monday morning, politicians were already in campaign mode. Jul 31, 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
Features Protest Palestine "We Can't Pretend We Don't Know": At the Rheinmetall Blockade Last week, activists tried to block the opening of a new Rheinmetall factory in Wedding which they accused of supplying weapons to Israel. Greta Thunberg was there. So were we. Jul 17, 2026
Features Music & Clubs Palestine Critics Tried to Block Kneecap From Playing in Berlin. They Came Anyway. In an exclusive backstage interview, the Irish band talks about the political pressure that forced them to play their first Berlin gig in secret. Jul 2, 2026
Features Food I Ate My Way Through Berlin's Most Review-Deleted Restaurants A tour of the Berlin food spots that are the most aggressive about their Google reputation, from Risa Chicken to Lezzet Grill. Jun 26, 2026
Features AfD Elections The AfD's Knife Crime Portal is Built on Bad Data Unpacking the far-right party's pre-election attempt to pin knife crime on immigrants. Jun 19, 2026
Features Drugs How High Can You Get At TRYP Expo? A weekend at Berlin's new psychedelic expo, where stalls sell LSD, mushroom and 2CB derivatives. Strictly for research purposes. Jun 5, 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
Features Health Gentrification From Nude to Prude: American Sauna Culture Hits Berlin We tried out two textile-mandatory saunas to answer the question: Does Berlin really need this? May 15, 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
Features Art The HEIST Guide to Gallery Weekend 2026 HEIST picks the best of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026: from Potsdamer Strasse to Kreuzberg and beyond, plus four Sellerie Weekend highlights for Sunday. Apr 29, 2026
Features Food Bad Influencers: Inside Berlin's Social Media Food Chain Breaking down the blurred lines between Berlin’s restaurants and food content creators. Apr 24, 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
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
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
