Berlin Review Audio

One of the first essays published in Berlin Review was Logan February's "Sans Souci" In this episode the Nigerian poet and essayist reads an excerpt from the piece, written while living in Berlin on a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship. The essay begins with a walk through Sanssouci Park in Potsdam and continues into a meditation on exile, colonial inheritance, loneliness as a luxury and what it means to stand inside and outside a place at once. After reading an excerpt of the essay, Logan is joined by the writer and translator Miriam Stoney for a conversation about translation, ghosts, poetic license and the tension around what language can and cannot express. You can read the rest of Logan February's essay "Sans Souci" at blnreview.de

On the launch night for Berlin Reader 3, Editor Samir Sellami sat down with two Berlin writers, Samanta Schweblin and Ricardo Domeneck to discuss literary magazines and the relationship between writers and readers.

Tobias Haberkorn speaks with critic and writer Lauren Oyler about her turn to poetry, attention as a literary practice, fleeting intimacy and what it means to not go home at all.

Esra Akkaya und Onur Erdur sprechen über die Wiederentdeckung der Schriftstellerin Tezer Özlü (1943–1986) –und über existentielles Schreiben zwischen der Türkei und Deutschland, Istanbul und Berlin.

Omer Bartov discusses the extraordinary consequences of October 7 and the destruction of Gaza for the world's moral order with Berlin Review Editor Tobias Haberkorn—live from Li-Be Literaturhaus Berlin, recorded on Oct 12, 2025.

Zwischen Cancellings, Polizeigewalt und gestoppten Waffenlieferungen: Jürgen Kaube, Daniel Marwecki und Berlin Review Editor Tobias Haberkorn diskutieren den Zustand von Deutschlands israelbezogener Staatsräson im Herbst 2025.

Clemens J. Setz über das Prompten der KI als Kunst des Wünschens, gesteuerte Unzufriedenheit als Plattformgefühl — und über den bedeutendsten Amazonrezensenten aller Zeiten.

This episode features a conversation between writer Tash Aw and Tobias Haberkorn, publisher of Berlin Review. It was recorded in front of a live audience at daadgalerie, Kreuzberg, on November 30, 2024.

Eine Gegenrede zum 8. Mai zu Ehren aller Displaced Persons von Erhard Schüttpelz, gelesen von Hanns Zischler, aus Berlin Review No 11, Mai 2025 — Hörfassung

Moshtari Hilal und Diedrich Diederichsen im Gespräch über Solidarität, Verrat und Vereinnahmung, moderiert von Emily Nill.

Berlin Review Editor Tobias Haberkorn speaks to Ryan Ruby and Lauren Oyler about expats, emigration, the politics of nostalgia – and why they still believe in Berlin.

BLNR editor Samir Sellami speaks with Cristina Rivera Garza and Alan Pauls about the politics and aesthetics of inflation

Yevgenia Belorusets spricht mit Tobias Haberkorn über ihren Essay «Kein Ende des Krieges» aus Berlin Review Nr. 1, Februar 2024