Born in Hamburg in 1982 Linus was always fascinated by movies. So it was no wonder that he started very early on his career as a director. But it is a long way to go from being the head of the videoclass at school to being invited to the 2010 Berlinale with his movie Gray Hawk. Read More
Berlin
Linus de Paoli – 16 mm Rockabillies
Benji | March 11th, 2010
Kaviar Gauche
Benji | March 10th, 2010
Exclusive but also suitable for day to day life – that‘s how you can describe the extrordinary fashion of designer Alexandra Fischer-Roehler and her colleague Joahnna Kühl, together Kaviar Gauche. Read More
Amelie Kiefer-German TV
Benji | March 5th, 2010
Despite her tender age of just 22, Amelie Kiefer has been a feature of the German television landscape for over a decade. Born in Munich, she was 5 when she stood in front of the camera for the first time. Read More
View on the river – Spreeblick
Benji | March 4th, 2010
Way back in 2002, when the internet was still a fresh tool for bloggers, Johnny Haeusler conceived Spreeblick. A fresh and new approach to journalism and pop-culture in and from Berlin as well as Germany itself. Read More
Bongout-French Art in Berlin
Benji | March 3rd, 2010
When Christian Gfeller and Anna Hellsgård decided to open up the doors to the Bongout gallery in February 2008, they created a place in the heart of Berlin Mitte where contemporary art meets graphic design, outsider and underground art as well as numerous forms of sound and visual culture.
Berlin Power Pop – Chuckamuck
Benji | March 3rd, 2010
Young, still in school, Rock‘n‘Roll and from Berlin. If you see the guys from Chuckamuck you won’t belive that they’ve been around for 5 years already (Yes, you’re right, they started playing when they were 13 years old, down in a cellar with nothing more than some stolen guitars and Chuck Berry riffs in their heads). Read More
A new star is born – Anna Fischer
Benji | February 9th, 2010
Television is – and this is a fact that can be easily proved – mostly terrible, boring and without any kind of quality. But then there are some exceptions, and one of those exceptions is called Anna Fischer.
JULIAANDBEN
Benji | February 2nd, 2010
JuliaandBen – one name, two minds, a label and the next generation of Berlin fashion designers. They don‘t pretend to be high fashion or especially classy, but with their strict black and white collection you can party the whole night and show up the day after for any kind of event you can imagine. Read More
Beat and Beat and Beat
Benji | February 2nd, 2010
Beat Beat Beat are four German guys living close to the Dutch border and their favorite thing to do is actually to play Nintendo while stuffing themselves with Fast Food - the usual things you love when you are a teenager. Read More
von Bismarck
Benji | February 1st, 2010
Julius von Bismarck, the Berlin based artist/inventor, is probably one of the last of his kind. He uses analogue technology from way back to develop his inspiring and hitherto unseen pieces of technology, and it’s up to you to decide if it is art or a technological retro-revolution when you see his works. Read More
Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin
Benji | January 31st, 2010
Fatih Akin loves Hamburg – the city he was born in and grew up in. He also loves making movies and these movies are generally loved by everybody else. So it‘s not such a big surprise that Akin‘s latest movie, Soul Kitchen, is a declaration of love for the city of Hamburg. But love is a struggle and can sometimes be painful. Read More
NERDCORE
Benji | January 30th, 2010
Talking about the essence of the web is akin to talking about the universe and our opinion about reality. For such topics you ask an expert, may it be Stephen Hawking or the guys from MIT for the obscurity of space. In terms of the internet, this particular expert is the Berlin based Blogger Rene Walther with his webpage Nerdcore.de. Read More
TORPEDO
Benji | January 21st, 2010
Helene Hegemann
What do you do when you were born in Bochum, you are young and you have big plans? You move to Berlin. Thats what Helene did at the age of 15. She left Bochum to live with her father, a well known theater dramatist in Berlin, and started to make her creative dreams into a reality. Read More
Undertube, Underground
Benji | January 20th, 2010
Tina, Sebastian, Mila, Peer Jutta and Malte ride the subway everyday and share their journey with musicians they have seen on stage of the most famous clubs throughout Germany. Every week they broadcast from a different city – be it Berlin, Cologne or Munich – and share smalltalk with personalities of pop-culture, give you the hottest news straight out of the independent music scene, recommend concerts and record reviews and all of this packed in a ten minute ride on the most wonderful subway routes of the cities they live in. Read More
Thieves like us
Benji | January 20th, 2010
Thieves like us.
Where do you meet as a young musician with holes in your pockets and a desperate need for secondhand stuff and a cheap beer in Berlin? Read More