Berlin

Brandon Rosenbluth’s Dark Arts

Benji | June 18th, 2010

Brandon is a 24 year old multi-disciplinary artist living between Berlin, Los Angeles and New York. He primarily creates video installations and is part of the art collective devo1ded under the name xorzyst. Read More

Germans Have Never Sounded Less German

Benji | June 17th, 2010

Four guys with glasses from Wiesbaden discover, reconfigure and reinvent the landscape of Trip-Hop and Bristol Sound. Mogwai, Sigur Ros or Radiohead can be named as their influences, but with their dynamic they add the momentum of prog-rock to this ensemble. Read More

Germany’s Next Dancing Queen

Benji | June 16th, 2010

Despite her young age (born 1994) Maria-Victoria Dragus is one of the biggest upcoming young artists in Germany. Maria was born into an artist family with her father working for the theater while her mother performed as a professional dancer.  Since the age of five she has been attending the Palucca school in Dresden where she studies various forms of dance. Read More

Film Is Claudia Eisinger’s Stage

Benji | June 9th, 2010

Claudia Eisinger was born in Berlin, where she also graduated from the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch. After school she started directly at the Maxim Gorki theater in Berlin where she could be seen in different plays such as Das Käthchen von Helbronn. Read More

Lips, Hips and Tits – Fashion’s Rising Star

Benji | June 7th, 2010

Christina Berger is about to become the biggest thing on the German fashion scene since Karl Lagerfeld got skinny. Read More

Das Kind der Stadt

Benji | June 4th, 2010

Stadtkind, founded back in 2001 by Liza and Dominic who remain the anonymous figures behind the blog and online city handbook, is heavily influenced by the electronic music scene. It’s a fresh and new approach to music pop culture and style reaching from Berlin to the ever undiscovered corners of the republic.

The blog is now considered as one of the hippest and coolest sites originating out of the capital with its many, many tips and overwhelmingly detailed knowledge of the underground scene.

Linus de Paoli – 16 mm Rockabillies

Benji | March 11th, 2010


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

Kaviar Gauche

Benji | March 10th, 2010

Kaviar Gauche

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.

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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.

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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