STB Newsletter 2025 #5

Dear members and subscribers,

Hello!

It’s been a while since I dropped a line, so I thought I would send a quick update to remind you that a) we are still alive and well and b) outline some of the articles we’ve published over the summer.

Back in June, UK architecture photographer and brutalism fan Tom Benjamin sent us some images of a randomised walk through Berlin—a city he clearly loves—and we put them up as a photo essay here (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre).

For July, we dived into the world of translation by interviewing two of the best translators of contemporary German literature into English: Katy Derbyshire and Susan Bernofsky (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre), who between then have worked on books by everyone from Kafka to Jenny Erpenbeck.

In August, following on from the beer hikes list we previously ran from the authors of the excellent Hiking & Drinking guides, we published some of their wine hikes (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre), all of which are again reachable from Berlin, with quite a few surprises included.

And the most recent write-up is of a cycling tour I did through the charming federal state of Thüringia, stopping off at Eisenach, Gotha, Erfirt, Weimar, Jena. Just a couple of hours by train from Berlin, I was impressed at the prettiness anf friendliness of the region but especially its cultural heritage , which spans Schiller and Goethe, right up to Otto Dix and Bauhaus. You can read about that here (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre).

That’s all for now, I think. Thank you, as always, for your valued support—and look out soon for more pieces on Weimar artist Gustav Wunderwald (not to be confused with the Oasis song), a profile of history-rich Wilhelmstrasse, and a dive into Berlin’s long history of social housing as a way of highlighting the current rental and housing crisis…

Danke und bis dann,

Paul