Great park and definitely under-visited

'The Cause of Labour is the Hope of the World'

A May Day garland by Walter Crane, 1895.

Mayday at Kreuzberg’s finest punk pub (Trinkteufel), 2019 #berlin

Happy May Day!

For May Day, would you like to hear how it went when Paul Robeson, the great American movie star, singer, and activist, met with British miners, and he sang Joe Hill?

Well, it went like this ...

Wednesday.

The late historian Eric Hobsbawm recalls the origins of May Day, the ‘dent’ made by workers in the calendar of gods and kings.
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29 degrees out. Respect to all the Berliners in all black.

Kotti 💕

These expat Berlin literary critics are out of control

Given to me by my parents, Christmas 1987. Thirty-odd years later I started collecting copies of The New York Trilogy that were in some way distinguished.

Paul Auster as a student participating in the 1968 occupation of Columbia University, as seen in Peter Whitehead's The Fall (1969).

safe travels

If you must cycle around the city all day long today, then please cycle like this

It’s MayDay and I’m writing about Kafka and learning more about his socialist sympathies. Not bad.

Siegesäule view for MayDay 🙌 #berlin

Vor 79 Jahren, 30. April 1945, gute Nachricht aus Berlin!

During our tour of the Reichstag building today, the tour guide asked a group of 19 fourth graders what law they would try to pass if they were members of the Bundestag. One child said they would make sure döner didn’t cost more than €2.99. The 18 other kids (loudly) cheered.