Berlin Quarterly

Issue 12

Journalist Zuzanna Bukłaha delineates the current political and social fissures in her native Poland, German writer Jenny Erpenbeck looks back on her childhood in East Berlin with three short memoir works, Marek Bienczyk shares a study on transparency, Pablo Maurette investigates the concept of ketman, a creative form of self-censorship that intellectuals and artists practice under totalitarian regimes, and Mark Tardi translates Olga Hund, exploring the inner workings of a psychiatric hospital. Also with poetry by Ann Cotten and Xandria Phillips, photography by Elliott Verdier that documents the cinematic landscapes of Kyrgyzstan, and Anaïs Tondeur’s stunning, haunting cyanotypes of vegetation from Chernobyl alongside meditations on the tragedy and its aftermath by writer Michael Marder.

Berlin Quarterly is a European cultural journal with global perspective. It combines in-depth reportage, literature and visual culture.

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