Deborah Cole
@deborahcole.bsky.social
Berlin correspondent, The Guardian
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A Berlin ‘rubble woman’s’ boots, ca. 1945 Museum Ephraim Palais
October 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A Berlin ‘rubble woman’s’ boots, ca. 1945 Museum Ephraim Palais
Meanwhile in Berlin wildlife…
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Meanwhile in Berlin wildlife…
Telling graphic on the gender pay gap in east & west Germany 35 years on, on Unity Day www.ostbeauftragte.de/ostb-de/aktu...
October 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Telling graphic on the gender pay gap in east & west Germany 35 years on, on Unity Day www.ostbeauftragte.de/ostb-de/aktu...
Der Herbst kann kommen
September 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Der Herbst kann kommen
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…
September 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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…
Ach, Berlin Marathon day ❤️
September 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Ach, Berlin Marathon day ❤️
3 pretty punctual trains, a Flixbus & a leisurely ferry to reach the magical Rilke path along the Adriatic coast outside Trieste 🇮🇹🇪🇺🥾 #derwegistdasziel
September 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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
September 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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)
August 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Happy 80th, Wim Wenders. (Photo taken in Berlin last week, when WW delighted a young fan from Boston by being game & generally delightful)
Last night’s rainbow-sunset-fullmoon triple thrill in Berlin
July 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Last night’s rainbow-sunset-fullmoon triple thrill in Berlin
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
July 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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
Klimt tattoo, Berlin-Ostbahnhof 💋
June 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Klimt tattoo, Berlin-Ostbahnhof 💋
German ghost signs of Wrocław (Breslau)
June 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
German ghost signs of Wrocław (Breslau)
Absolutely loved reconnecting with Eisenhüttenstadt - not going down without a fight! @theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Absolutely loved reconnecting with Eisenhüttenstadt - not going down without a fight! @theguardian.com
The still growing sea of flowers left outside the home where Margot Friedländer & her family lived until the Gestapo came in January 1943. Skalitzer Str 32 in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Picture credit Dominik Mai
May 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The still growing sea of flowers left outside the home where Margot Friedländer & her family lived until the Gestapo came in January 1943. Skalitzer Str 32 in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Picture credit Dominik Mai
It’s sometimes all I can do not to rescue these vestiges of Berlin past
May 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It’s sometimes all I can do not to rescue these vestiges of Berlin past
It’s a world full of sorrows but behold this year’s Cannes posters
April 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It’s a world full of sorrows but behold this year’s Cannes posters
My Berlin neighborhood pays tribute to resistance pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer 80 years after he was murdered by the Nazis, at the Zion Church where he worked with youth in the early 1930s
April 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
My Berlin neighborhood pays tribute to resistance pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer 80 years after he was murdered by the Nazis, at the Zion Church where he worked with youth in the early 1930s
Our local polling station in Berlin is in a former Jewish orphanage from which at least 49 children & staff were sent to their deaths in the Holocaust @hilmarschmundt.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Our local polling station in Berlin is in a former Jewish orphanage from which at least 49 children & staff were sent to their deaths in the Holocaust @hilmarschmundt.bsky.social
Alice Weidel refuses to say whether she agrees with the statement by the AfD's honorary chairman Alexander Gauland that the Nazi period was a mere "speck of bird poo" in the vast expanse of German history
February 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Alice Weidel refuses to say whether she agrees with the statement by the AfD's honorary chairman Alexander Gauland that the Nazi period was a mere "speck of bird poo" in the vast expanse of German history