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I’m not just in Berlin on holiday. I spent time being hosted by Der Tagesspiegel as part of a community engagement grant from University of Oregon’s Agora Journalism Center and the Bosch Foundation. Newsletter editor and fellow grantee Judith Langowski took me to her newsroom’s news meeting and also arranged visits with Zeit Online and Neue Deutsche Medienmacher, a journalism organization that supports increased inclusion in journalism. I also met journalists from Neues Deutschland at a women journalists meetup at the Taz newspaper’s cafe.

The Ramones Museum in Berlin is so good. I was lucky enough to run into the owner Flo who talked about Berlin, the creative chaos right after the fall of the Berlin Wall, garage rock, rising rents, the state of things today and being able to live a dream. He founded his tribute to the Ramones in 2005, “when it was possible to do this in Berlin.” A space like this would cost too much today for a guy with a random idea. Another tidbit Flo shared — when Berlin was divided, this building was on a dead end in West Berlin just before the border. Just down the road from this building is the bridge Oberbaumbrücke, a beautiful 19th century bridge that had become a checkpoint between east and west during the Cold War.

A food hall and street food day (Thursday), with options from vendors offering food from Eritrea, Nepal, Morocco, Japan, Turkey and more. This Thursday, I opted for Austrian charcuterie and red wine.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, artists — who had previously been unofficially putting their mark with graffiti — officially took it over. This section near the Spree River is now preserved as an outdoor gallery of post-Cold War art. For the 30th anniversary commemorations, the river-side of the wall was painted white, and in the evening there’s a multimedia presentation of the history at this section.

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