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Berlinale: Observations in and on “Bestiaire”
Watching monkeys at a zoo, one can never be quite sure who is observing whom. During one of my few visits to Berlin’s Zoologischer Garten, a smart little caged creature held its hands to its face as if...
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Tacheles: artists vs. capitalism
text & photographs by Nicola Zolin www.nicolazolin.it Tacheles Berlin closes at opens again. The continuous fight between the HSH Northbank who bought the area of the building and the resident...
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Looking for the Meaning of Life… in Lodz
by Juliette VazardThe city rally organized in Lodz, in parallel with the exhibition “Einblicke” (“Insights”) taking place in the Prexer Culture Centre, represented for me an unmissable opportunity, or...
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“Does Wolfgang Schäuble really understand what it means to be a young Greek...
by Tobias Sauer, translation Carmen Melchers Café Babel Athens was recently awarded the Charlemagne Youth Prize in Aachen. In the train on the way back from Aachen we had the chance to talk with Elina...
View ArticleThe Queens of Queens
by Karolina GolimowskaIf you take train line 7 from Manhattan, you can watch the streets of Queens through the windows. It is a sunny day in spring, the train is pleasantly half-full, we leave the...
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Madame Mephisto - A.M. Bakalar's New Novel: A Review
Madame Mephisto - A.M. Bakalar’s debut novel published by London’s Stork Press talks about the new generation of Polish immigrants – a result of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. A very...
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KLONE YOURSELF
text and photographs by Alexandra BelopolskyI've been following his strange creatures for years. Fox-like predators with sharp teeth, giant birds with menacing beaks, monstrous fish. All staring at the...
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What keeps societies together – Richard Sennett and Richard David Precht...
Last night the anthropologist Richard Sennett talked to the philosopher Richard David Precht on the main stage in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele about his new book Together: The Rituals, Pleasures...
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“Changing things with little steps”
Text: Christiane Lötsch // Translation: Jorin Eichhorn // proof reading: John Neilan // Photos by Jorin Eichhorn, Alex Yair von Pentz and Torsten Seidler At the end of the Euroadtrip2012 project Jorin...
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Portrait #1 Djerdj Horvat: I couldn’t be doing my PhD in Serbia in this field...
During the October 2012 Babel Academy in Brussels young babelians came up with an idea of conducting a series of interviews with young people who for professional reasons decided to move to a different...
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Watch out, the bears are coming!
Hey, it’s already next week – 63rd Berlinale film festival’s hustle of films, exhibitions, press conferences, workshops, handshakes, camera flashes, flickering of projectors and lights going off and...
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Berlinale 2013: Day One
As announced, starting from today and for the next ten days until the very end of this festival, Berlin’s Café Babel team will be catching up with you about the events of the day. We have named it:...
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Berlinale 2013: "Lose Your Head" cautions party tourists
British ministers are reportedly considering to launch a negative campaign in Romania and Bulgaria to try and discourage potential immigrants with more or less the following message: Britain’s streets...
View ArticleBerlinale 2013: Second Day's Best Babelian Moment
I think we can allow the English blog to choose its own Babelian moment, can we? After all, today we were a part of that rare feeling that history was taking place here and now, there and then. It was...
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Berlinale 2013: Day Three
This afternoon the Cafébabel Berlin Team met to talk about the film of the day "I Kori - The Daughter" (Regie: Thanos Anastopoulos). A girl in her teens, an eight-year-old boy, and a father suddenly no...
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Berlinale 2013: Day Four
The Babelinale moment of the dayTen excited, young and ambitious European Shooting Stars are waiting to meet... ...the European Media... ...cafebabel.com was there! photos: Katarzyna Świerc
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Berlinale 2013: Day Five
The Babelinale Moment of the Day was this time a moment of truly Babelian disconnection. The program consisted of two movies from Japan, one from Republic of Korea, one from Italy and the last one from...
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European Shooting Stars 2013 – Arta Dobroshi
Interview: Daniel TkatchFoto: Katarzyna SwiercArta Dobroshi’s role in Lorna’s Silence (2008) directed by brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne brought her a triple nomination for best actress and a...
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Ready to act - Berlinale 2013 on youth dealing with the economic crisis
The recent years has made us almost numb to seeing politicians around the globe in their seemingly ceaseless efforts to address the lingering economic crisis which is ready to encircle ever more...
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European Shooting Stars 2013 - Laura Birn
Cafébabel had the opportunity to talk with Laura Birn, the Finnish actress recently nominated as a SHOOTING STAR. The pan-European initiative SHOOTING STARS puts a spotlight on Europe's best young...
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