OUT NOW! Our APRIL issue!
As Berlin kids are joining the global strikes for climate justice, what's the rest of Berlin doing to save the planet? From idealistic club owners to ingenious startups and sustainable architecture,...
View ArticleOUT NOW! Our MAY issue!
Take a spring trip – in Berlin! We've rounded up some of the best local getaways including a riviera walk, island hopping, time travel, kitsch excursions, intercultural wedding crashing and much more!...
View ArticleKonrad Werner eyes the EU election
May 26 is this upcoming Sunday and that means EU Parliament elections across the continent. Should you even give a toss? Yes, you should. And Konrad explains why and what you need to know.
View ArticleOUT NOW! Our JUNE issue!
No shit! EXB is another year older and dedicating its anniversary issue to the lucky, yucky and fertile topic of poop. From real shit workers to the many faeces of German history, from anal douching to...
View ArticleOUT NOW! Our JULY/AUGUST double issue!
This summer, EXB is taking you off the beaten track with insiders' hangout tips, hot Berlin debut novels, a trip to a Kurdish village full of Berliners, Max Czollek's original take on how Germany is...
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Linke Autonomen are nothing like Nazis
They smell a bit, but lefties are not like Nazis, and burning a car is not the same as burning down a refugee shelter, whatever Frank Henkel says.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: We'll take that, Merkel
Angela Merkel hasn't changed much in the last nine years, but our standards have – in this world, anyone who can hold a coherent thought looks like a great humanitarian.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: I saw the sign 2016
Since last week, the streets of Berlin, or their lampposts, have been littered with them: campaign posters for the September city elections. Konrad Werner gives the good (intentions), bad and WTF?!
View ArticleKonrad Werner: If you really want to ban the burqa...
Go ahead and ban burqas, but then can we get on to an issue that affects our lives?
View ArticleKonrad Werner: The CDU blames Merkel for doing her job
So apparently the CDU leader in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern thinks Merkel's "refugee policy" is to blame for his electoral defeat. Maybe it would've helped if he'd pointed out his state hardly has any...
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Berlindecision 2016
If you’re an Anglophone reader who by a twist of lineage and law finds themselves eligible to vote here, do it! And don’t be confused about it either. Konrad's walks you through it.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Snowden-friendly Germany invests in mass surveillance
The German secret service this month leaked its mass surveillance plans to the press and no one was charged with treason. Netzpolitik did the same thing last year and caused a massive fuss.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: The Linke is not like the AfD
The German media has decided that Sahra Wagenknecht and Frauke Petry are similar. Even though they're clearly not. Why? Who the hell knows. They have to write something, I suppose.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: You have to look busy
What would you do if you were a politician? Make even more laws?
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Oh great, more mad idiots with guns
Last week, some German people decided that the world wasn't mad enough yet and decided to kill a policeman because ... erm ... Germany is a company or something. Who are the Reichsbürger?
View ArticleKonrad Werner: The news is meant to be a bit boring
Sometimes we pretend the news is important and serious because we hate ourselves and want to be unhappy.
View ArticleWatching Trump win in Another Country
Konrad found a beautiful, well-named bookshop to witness the end of times.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: R2G – first we take Berlin
The newly rubber-stamped red-red-green coalition won't make the sick, empty feeling go away. But what else have we got.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Questions for the Anonymous
Konrad's brain usually goes into standby when people start talking about hacking things, so we made him go to Saturday's Disruption Network Lab and interview one of the world's leading experts on the...
View ArticleKonrad Werner: How long can Germany hold out?
Don't let people tell you things aren't bad. Because they are.
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