Berlin Review
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| Co-editors | Tobias Haberkorn, Samir Sellami |
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| Categories | Literary criticism, cultural commentary |
| Frequency | 8× per year (online), 3× per year (print) |
| Publisher | Berlin Review |
| Year founded | February 2, 2024 |
| First issue | 2 February 2024 |
| Company | BLNR Publishing GmbH |
| Country | Germany |
| Based in | Berlin |
| Language | German, English, other |
| Website | blnreview |
Berlin Review is a bilingual (German and English) magazine for books and ideas. It was launched on February 2, 2024. It publishes eight online issues and three print editions per year.[1]
History
The founding editors are Caroline Adler, Tobias Haberkorn, Eliana Kirkcaldy, and Samir Sellami. Haberkorn and Sellami serve as co-editors-in-chief.[2]
Content
The Berlin Review combines literary, academic, and non-fiction book reviews with essays and commentary on cultural and political topics. The reader has published texts from renowned authors from Germany and abroad. Contributors have included Adania Shibli, Didier Fassin, A. Dirk Moses, Elad Lapidot, Yevgenia Belorusets, Alan Pauls, Joseph Ben Prestel, Wolfgang Kalleck, Tash Aw, Fatin Abbas, Edna Bonhomme, Esra Özyürek, and Mohammed al-Zaqzouq. It has published German translations of texts by authors such as Eyal Weizman, Judith Butler and Omer Bartov.[3][4][5] The first printed Reader, with a run of 2,000 copies, appeared in July 2024.[6]
Reception
Berlin Review has received coverage in major German and English-language media:
- In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Patrick Bahners described it as "an organ created for authors one may have read but perhaps not yet heard—geographically mobile global intellectuals whose collective presence in Berlin should not be sought in tourism but as a challenge to local cultural institutions."[7]
- Paul Jandl of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called the first issue "a place of intellectual sustainability," highlighting Adania Shibli’s essay contribution in which the Palestinian writer commented on the cancellation of her Liberaturpreis book award at Frankfurt Bookfair 2023.[8]
- In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Mark Siemons praised its long-form texts for bridging the gap between brief newspaper reviews and books in a style reminiscent of The New York Review of Books.[9]
- In the Tagesspiegel, Eva Murašov singled out Joseph Ben Prestel’s essay on the history of the Palestinian diaspora in Germany for its nuanced examination of marginalization and left-wing solidarity in the wake of 1970s antisemitic violence.[10]
- In The New York Times, author Deborah Feldman described the magazine’s founding as “so cathartic” and “such a milestone” in Berlin’s post–October 7, 2023 cultural life.[11]
- In a Süddeutsche Zeitung article, Felix Stephan situated Berlin Review among a new wave of magazines seeking to expand public discourse and mediate between academia, literature, and politics.[12]
- In a June 2025 interview with the Berliner Zeitung, co-editor Tobias Haberkorn criticized German cultural media for what he saw as a lack of coherence and self-awareness amid geopolitical upheavals, positioning Berlin Review as a venue for intellectual depth not found in conventional feuilletons.[13]
- In a March 2024 guest contribution to Publix, Haberkorn warned of filter bubbles in traditional media and advocated for the magazine as a platform for varied, richly argued texts that resist algorithmic uniformity.[14]
References
- ↑ "Berlin Review". de.wikipedia. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
- ↑ "About Us – Berlin Review". Berlin Review. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
- ↑ Butler, Judith (2025). "This Is Wrong". Berlin Review (in Deutsch) (11). ISSN 2943-694X.
- ↑ Bartov, Omer (2025). "«Grenzenlose Lizenz» – der israelische Genozid in Gaza". Berlin Review (in Deutsch) (12). ISSN 2943-694X.
- ↑ Weizman, Eyal (2024). "Drei Genozide". Berlin Review (in Deutsch) (4). ISSN 2943-694X.
- ↑ "Berlin Review · 1". Berlin Review. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
- ↑ Patrick Bahners. "Wie provinziell sind die deutschen Debatten?". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
- ↑ Paul Jandl. "Das Online-Magazin «Berlin Review» will die Debattenkultur retten. Die gecancelte palästinensische Autorin Adania Shibli kommt dabei zu Wort". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
- ↑ Mark Siemons. "So viel Deutung und keine Welt". Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
- ↑ Eva Murašov. "Neues Literaturmagazin "Berlin Review": Raus aus der Unmittelbarkeit". Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
- ↑ Farago, Jason (11 April 2024). "A Conversation With Deborah Feldman, an Unorthodox Voice in Germany". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
- ↑ Stephan, Felix (21 July 2025). "Neue Magazine gegen die Verengung der Debattenräume". Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
- ↑ "Tobias Haberkorn vom Magazin "Berlin Review": Deutsche Medien leugnen die Realität". Berliner Zeitung. 1 June 2025. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
- ↑ "Guest contribution: No fear of erroneous opinions". Publix. 13 March 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
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