Listening to new rock bands was actually impossible for youngsters who lived in Soviet bloc All western bands were strongly censored by the regime, above all rock’n’roll, which was not tolerated at all. Although listening to Elvis, Rolling Stones or Beatles was a weighty matter, the ban could be bypassed and their albums made it […]
Vladimir Nabokov moved to Berlin in 1922 and lived there for 15 years Nabokov’s family moved to Berlin in 1920. In those days, many people left Russia because of the Civil war, and from 1922 to 1923 more than 300.000 Russians reached Berlin. Immigrats was mainly concentrated in Wittenbergplatz and Charlottenburg (this latter was ironically […]
The flattened croissant: traditional pastry of northern Germany come from historical conflict The Franzbrötchen – literally “french roll”- is a classic pastry of Hamburg commonly found in the northern Germany, including Berlin. It looks like a croissant, but has a flattened shape with more strong flavour due to the addition of cinnamon. Its birth can […]