Berlin Stories
Topper SherwoodPractical Stories of 'Radical' (also Practical) Art & Literature from 20th-Century Europe & Beyond.
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On Leaving Berlin.
On the Road. A spot I found to sit & read a real book. “I should be doing more of this,” I thought & decided, then and there, to slow or stop my writing/publishing online. Why not author my next book on an old typewriter? Or in longhand? Li...
Berlin’s Mamdani Moment: ‘Reds’ Win Election 2026
Elif Eralp (center) celebrates the September 2026 state election victory of her party, The Left, as the new mayor-elect of Berlin. (source: nuevarevolucion.es)
In 2008, Berlin’s colorful Mayor, Klaus Wowereit, had a memorable face-off aga...
‘Goodbye to Berlin’
W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Christopher Isherwood at Sellin, on the island of Rügen, 1931. (source: Stephen Spender Estate.)
HE LIVED passionately and wrote feverishly, making his home in various Berlin slums. The most tolerable of hi...
Margit Téry’s Final Work
The view from Margit’s studio. (cc-ID Topper Sherwood, 2026)
This is a start of fact-based fiction-in-progress that I cannot compose in Berlin. Only pieces of it will be shared here; the end is years away….. -ts, 6. September 2026.
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Internet 3 Crossroads: Wrangling with AI in Berlin (2026)
Why should we, as human intelligence workers, believe that machines can ever do our jobs?
This is a longer post than usual from me — and longer than I like. It’s an updated rant from one I posted last year….. -ts
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Veteran journalist for Associated Press, TIME, BusinessWeek, Boston Globe, Smithsonian pubs & other US/German clients, Sherwood writes about courageous thinkers of 20th-century art and literature, including “activists” of the Avant Garde/Modern.
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