Deborah Cole

Meanwhile in Berlin wildlife…

Eurasian goshawk - Wikipedia

Apparently yes, occasionally, according to a well-sourced Wikipedia entry: "Other miscellaneous rodents reported sporadically in the diet include dormice, Old World mice and rats, zokors, gophers and jirds." This has my full support. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia...

Guardian live von Viktoriapark!

Not nice but nature’s gonna nature I suppose. Be glad you don’t live in wild boar territory (or Berlin’s notorious kangaroo/lion hunting grounds…)

‘It proves this can be done’: Berlin the blueprint to bring goshawks to UK cities Conservationist plans release of 15 each of the apex predators sourced as chicks into Chester and London

The goshawk is thriving in bustling capitals such as Berlin, Amsterdam and Prague and the apex predator could be heading to a city near you. Uplifting one by Ajit Niranjan www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Another great read from Salzburg by @kateconnolly.bsky.social

It’s not a free choice if affordable, reliable childcare options aren’t on the table or if you’re getting branded a Rabenmutter (neglectful) by those closest to you (including yourself)

Women in East Germany had higher rates of labor force participation than in the West, leading to both an infrastructure of childcare and a mindset about working while parenting that have persisted. Western mothers are also more likely to go part time which has a lifetime impact on earnings

The difference in pay between men and women is 'only' 5% in the east (in green), compared to 17% in the west (and Berlin)

Telling graphic on the gender pay gap in east & west Germany 35 years on, on Unity Day www.ostbeauftragte.de/ostb-de/aktu...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

Bellingcat volunteers using AI joined forces with a German historian to solve an enduring mystery of the Holocaust - who was the Nazi killer from the picture once known as The Last Jew in Vinnitsa, a chilling image kept as a 'trophy' from the massacres in Ukraine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

Night train services linking Paris, Berlin and Vienna are to end from mid-December because of the French government’s withdrawal of funding, the Austrian national rail operator has said, in a blow to sleeper travel on important European routes www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Barricades in Bari: why the city’s ‘pasta grannies’ are under scrutiny Sellers of fresh orecchiette in southern Italy are fighting back after being accused of tricking tourists with bought wares

‘Pasta grannies’ selling fresh orecchiette in southern Italy are fighting back after being accused of tricking tourists with bought wares. Lovely one by Angela Giuffrida www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Der Herbst kann kommen

Thanks to the Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe for organizing the timely, packed Freya von Moltke doc screening in Berlin tonight - a love story that has only grown in its impact & poetic power. Not a dry eye…

Ach, Berlin Marathon day ❤️

3 pretty punctual trains, a Flixbus & a leisurely ferry to reach the magical Rilke path along the Adriatic coast outside Trieste 🇮🇹🇪🇺🥾 #derwegistdasziel

Hitler's Jewish neighbour looks back in horror in new book Edgar Feuchtwanger, the son of a prominent German Jewish family with roots in Bavaria going back centuries, vividly remembers nearly bumping into his neighbour Adolf Hitler as a boy.

Edgar Feuchtwanger, probably the last person alive to have personally encountered Hitler, is dead at 100. I spoke to him in 2014 about his illustrious Jewish family & the “blissfully without charisma” Angela Merkel sg.news.yahoo.com/hitlers-jewi...

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At the Musée de l’Homme during their wonderful wax prints exhibition

Bought these fab notebooks from her collection on a recent trip to Paris

Old master painting looted by Nazis recovered a week after being spotted in Argentinian property listing Portrait of a Lady by the Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi handed over by daughter of the late Nazi financier Friedrich Kadgien

Riveted by every twist and turn of this story since it surfaced last month www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘I was killed in virtually every film’: how trailblazing Chinese-American star Anna May Wong upended cinema A retrospective at the BFI celebrates how Wong – whether typecast in orientalist fantasies or breaking taboos with a kiss – could always steal the show

I will never pass on an Anna May Wong story www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

‘March of commercialisation’: writing is on the wall for Berlin’s nightclubs Rising rents and gentrification in the once-cheap and abundant real estate market have put the pinch on the clubbing scene

‘March of commercialisation’: writing is on the wall for Berlin’s nightclubs

‘I was never worried’: 10 years on since Syrian siblings’ 2,700-mile escape to Germany Ten years after Angela Merkel declared ‘We can do this’ at the height of the 2015 migration into Europe, Syrian refugee Somar Kreker looks back at his 44-day odyssey

‘I was never worried’: 10 years on since Syrian siblings’ 2,700-mile escape to Germany

Come on now 😅

Thank you!

YouTube video by AnnenMayKantereit Ich geh heut nicht mehr tanzen - AnnenMayKantereit

The new Berlin anthem: youtu.be/MKyj6lYHfT8?...

‘March of commercialisation’: writing is on the wall for Berlin’s nightclubs Rising rents and gentrification in the once-cheap and abundant real estate market have put the pinch on the clubbing scene

Property speculation & shifting lifestyles are squeezing Berlin’s beloved nightclubs. For a European capital that like no other built its reputation on fun and decadence, the pain is especially palpable www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Nachruf auf Gerhard Räder: „Ich mache hier nur die Cocktails“ Er verkaufte Goldhamster, schippte Kohlen, verkaufte Prospekte. Und er goss Fidel Castro einen Whisky ein. Eine Million wollte er verdienen

RIP Gerhard Räder, legendary East Berlin bartender of Lindencorso and Hotel Metropol who served Fidel Castro & the shah and resisted Stasi pressure to inform with the immortal words "I just make the cocktails here." www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/nachr...