Deborah Cole
@deborahcole
Berlin correspondent, The Guardian deborah.cole(at)theguardian.com
Gosh this is lovely about how the new Dior campaign featuring Josh O'Connor is triggering a sense of longing in the Iranian diaspora for a bygone 80s aesthetic www.zeit.de/feuilleton/2...
Hanover has Niki de Saint Phalle Nana figures on its crosswalk lights ❤️
Such an eye-opening conversation in Berlin tonight with @jlfeder.bsky.social about his book The Queer Face of War with members of Berlin’s Ukrainian LGBTQ community. The drag queen pictured built coffins after Bucha. Exhibition soon in Kyiv 🇺🇦
I meet extraordinary people in this job. Thank you to Inka and Ralph Orth for sharing their daughter Johanna’s passion with me with such generosity and grace www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Podgorica’s Karver bookstore, named for Raymond C., is tucked in a former hammam & just about the closest thing to perfection I’ve seen in an age
If you needed 1 more thing to be bereft about in January 2026, Berlin's Oderquelle, a perfect Prenzlauer Berg institution since 1990, is closing its doors for good this Sunday
Total highlight of the between-the-years emptiness in Berlin is hitting a new-to-me museum. Today: Medical History at Charité & the ruins of the Pathology Lecture Hall
Despite a rich tool box, the German language doesn't have a great word for appeasement. Now @spiegel.de is warning against it - when it comes to Trump's America. With this cover: Two Rogues, One Goal www.spiegel.de/ausland/dona...
The AfD has been flatlining at a high level for months nationally despite the Merz govt’s unpopularity - @diezeit.bsky.social asks whether it has tapped out its voter potential
Telling graphic on the gender pay gap in east & west Germany 35 years on, on Unity Day www.ostbeauftragte.de/ostb-de/aktu...
Thanks to the Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe for organizing the timely, packed Freya von Moltke doc screening in Berlin tonight - a love story that has only grown in its impact & poetic power. Not a dry eye…
3 pretty punctual trains, a Flixbus & a leisurely ferry to reach the magical Rilke path along the Adriatic coast outside Trieste 🇮🇹🇪🇺🥾 #derwegistdasziel
Bought these fab notebooks from her collection on a recent trip to Paris
Happy 80th, Wim Wenders. (Photo taken in Berlin last week, when WW delighted a young fan from Boston by being game & generally delightful)
A day after Friedrich Merz backed a decision not to fly the rainbow flag during this month’s Berlin pride march, arguing the Bundestag is not a ‘circus tent’, his predecessor hits back with an unusual rebuke