Berlin - Sarajevo

Swinging family parties and lunch with the swastika: The Berlin Museum der Dinge is exhibiting private photo albums as time documentation. No matter if you grew up in East or West Germany, just about everybody is familiar with such parties in the family living room. 

Photographer Nihad Nino Pušija documents the everyday lives of the Roma in his exhibition Sarajevo – Berlin RETOUR at the Academy of the Arts.

Bosnia is still wrestling with a past that simply won’t go away. This is a journey through a country that is divided in many ways after the sentencing of Ratko Mladić. 

German hip-hop is no longer the domain of men. Women rappers like Haiyti, SXTN and Sookee are stirring things up in the scene as this overview reveals.

Interview with the activist Nadia Kučukalić from Sarajevo.

In his album "Three Letters From Sarajevo", Goran Bregović combines Balkan folk with traditional sounds from other regions. 

The Hungarian-Serbian writer Lászlo Végel talks about the shift to the right in Eastern Europe, the conformism of the intellectual elite, and the “value vacuum” of the West. 

For 44 years, the Berlin School for Adult Education has offered a grassroots, self-governing alternative to the state education system. The wonderful documentary Berlin Rebel High School, which can now be seen at the Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, depicts it.  

With Face Your Fear, the American musician Curtis Harding has put out compelling soul album. Not New York, not Los Angeles, no, Atlanta was the city Curtis Harding chose to take his chances as a musician.