RSxEAB "Everything is Culture!"
Radio Spaetkauf Berlin
"Saving Culture" is Season 2 of 's Collaboration with the EAB - . In Episode two: "Everything is Culture" we discuss club culture, sports, comics, and video games are part of our cultural world. We reflect on the challenges of preserving diverse cultural spaces, the importance of inclusivity, practical ways to get involved and how expanding our definition of culture also means expanding our understanding of how we support cultural creators, spaces and communities. Host is joined by a fantastic panel exploring the support and protection culture in all its forms, ensuring it remains...
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"Can We Support Subcultures?" RSxEAB Season 2: Saving Culture
Radio Spaetkauf Berlin
"Saving Culture" is Season 2 of 's Collaboration with the EAB - . In Episode one "Can We Support Subculture?" we look at the needs of independent artists, underground scenes, and freelance creatives. We examine the role of institutions, the state and individuals in ensuring that they survive and thrive and create without constraint. Host Daniel Stern is joined by a fantastic panel exploring the preservation of cultural diversity amidst funding cuts and other challenges. GUESTS: - Project Leader at - Multimedia Artist, Designer & Teacher Manuela Kay - Journalist & Publisher: ,...
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Windmills of Our Minds | Lakeside Film Festival | Valentina Zalevska
Radio Spaetkauf Berlin
Recorded Sunday July 6th, 2025, live at ’s . Hosts Izzy, Dan and discuss recent Berlin headlines, watching movies in the wilderness and interview Valentina Zalevska of the . HEADLINES: Construction of a fence around Görlitzer Park moves forward, but faces opposition including local initiatives like “” Neukölln has banned the temporary rental of furnished apartments in its Milieuschutzgebiete; neighborhoods protected from gentrification. The new years eve party at the Brandenburg Gate has been cancelled for 2025. The deportation of three EU citizens and one American...
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Hacked Bikes, Cold Pools & Gay Animals - Live at Doxumentale Film Festival
Radio Spaetkauf Berlin
Berlin is losing its publicly-funded Nextbike system. What does it say about the city’s deflating civic status? Also we meet the artistic director of the Doxumentale film festival to hear why they’ve added an X to their name. And the founder of Give Something Back to Berlin will tell us about how beauty parlours are places of feminist empowerment. Nextbike has lost its €1.5M annual public funding to run a discounted shared bicycle system across Berlin. The CDU-led city-state government says it is too broke to fund the scheme, which ran since 2017, and reached 4 million journeys...
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Hardcore Tempelhof | THF100, Architects for Tempelhofer Feld, Sebastian Thauer
Radio Spaetkauf Berlin
Recorded April 3, 2025 live at with hosts Izzy and , plus special guest host . Headlines include the troubling escalations of neo-Nazi marches in Berlin, cracks in the A100, a local CDU "scandal", plus a Berliner in space and more. Interviews with Ester of and Jolene, from , and Sebastian Thauer, local show promoter who recently co-founded the music festival. Thanks to for support! GUEST LINKS Architects for Tempelhofer Feld Open Letter: Mailing List: THF 100 Cakewalk Festival Antonia Bär Shows: It's That Time of the Month: Improvised Stand-Up: ...
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Spring in Berlin | Guests Joanna Kusiak & Fabian Flues
Radio Spaetkauf Berlin
Recorded live March 6, 2025 at Another Country Bookstore. Hosts Izzy and with special guest co-hosts Pip Roper of the "History Flakes" podcast, and comedian Toby Arsalan. They chat spring weather in Berlin and its impact on relationships, Germany's new electronic health records, Berlin labor strikes, local Football and various tree removals. Plus the annoucement of a Kickstarter campaign for a vinyl release of our mini-series "How to F#€K Up an Airport," Berlin's housing crisis, and more. Interviews with Fabian Flues, a member of the Burger*innenInitiative A100,...
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Beer Walks and Kiosk Talks | Guests Dan Cole and Moritz Ahlert
Radio Spaetkauf Berlin
Recorded live at Podigee on November 12, 2024 with hosts Joel, Izzy, and Dan. They discuss proposed funding cuts to Berlin's cultural institutions, jaywalking, shopping Sundays and the closing of Berlin clubs. The show features two guests: first is co-author of "Beer Hiking Berlin" Dan Cole, followed by Moritz Ahlert of the project "". This episode of explores the impact of a proposed 10% funding cut to cultural institutions, as well as a reflection on the 35th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall. Plus chats on the city's evolving beer scene, the sustainability of nightclubs, the...
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City of Tomorrow!
Radio Spaetkauf Berlin
In this episode of "," recorded in collaboration with the , we focus on the future of urban living; asking the question, "What is the city of tomorrow?". Host is joined by architect and author . The conversation begins with Max sharing how skateboarding background influenced his urban design approach, and with Mira reading a passage from their award-winning novel “Neurobiest" describing Berlin of the future topped by green rooftop communities. From there we discuss visions for the future: inclusive, polycentric urban design, mobility hubs, and discarding anthropocentricism to leave space...
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Better Spaet Than Never - Radio Spaetkauf X Megan's Megacan
Radio Spaetkauf Berlin
Recorded September 10th at PodFest Berlin 2024. Released previously on the Megan's Megacan feed. Apologies for the delayed release via our feed. "Recording live with at 2024, Megan handed out free cans so that the audience wouldn't have to get through the news sober — which, frankly, should be part of every media subscription service these days. Then Konrad gets weirdly pedantic about crime stats, Izzy explains why Germany is always losing the energy transition race, and Joel finds some good news about Berlin's U-Bahn seat covers. And there's more fascism in Germany obviously. BUT we...
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Toilets, Sidewalks & Parks - Who Owns Berlin? RSxEAB
Radio Spaetkauf Berlin
Public space in Berlin is used for private profit. Does that rob or enrich the citizens? From business-run toilets to footpath vehicles and food sales in parks, we share our space with commerce. Can we also use private spaces like empty malls as public property? Radio Spaetkauf partners with the Europäische Akademie Berlin to invite an intelligent panel of activists and politicians to discuss the good and bad uses of public space for commercial gain. Sophie Menzel is a big fan of public toilets. She raises awareness of the need for more and better toilets in Berlin through the...
info_outlineBerlin is about to get conservative. The Christian Democrats have taken control of our once lefty, greeny, progressive and mismanaged city. The new CDU mayor is Kai Wegner, and he’s already off to a bad start. Berlin's parliament took an unprecedented three rounds of voting to elect him, despite his coalition having a majority. That means some within his own ranks aren't happy with him in power, and could cause trouble by refusing to pass legislation.
Was the New Election Justified?
How did the CDU come to power? They won 28.2% of the vote in the February 2023 re-election. They invited the SPD (which won 18.4% of votes) to join in a coalition. Together the CDU and SPD have 46.6% of votes and 82 of 159 seats in parliament. But the previous coalition of SPD, Greens (18.4%) and die Linke (12.2%) together had 49% of votes and taken 90 seats. Put simply, the old R2G (or G2R) coalition could have continued, and would have represented more voters.
Why did the 2023 election happen at all? Joel read the court decision which overturned the previous 2021 'marathon' election and found few facts to support the claim that it was terminally flawed. You can read the verdict for yourself here: https://gesetze.berlin.de/bsbe/document/KVRE008452215
Joel's take: The 2021 election shouldn't have been re-run, and the 2023 coalition isn't democratically supported.
How Berlin is Becoming a Psychedelics Hotspot
Several major medical trials are underway at Berlin's Charite hospital using psilocybin and MDMA to treating depression and PTSD. And plenty of Berliners are conducting their own experiments with micro-dosing. Our guest is Anne Philippi, host of The New Health Club podcast, which dives into the emerging field of psychedelic therapy. Listen to her show on Apple Podcasts here.
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Episode Credits
This episode was recorded live at Selina Mitte: https://www.selina.com/germany/berlin-mitte/
Hosts: Joel Dullroy, Izzy Choksey, Dan Stern. Producers: Anne-Marie Harrison, Sebastian Filip.
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