One Night at BURG
A trial in Halle is set to determine the victim of a campus attack. For some, the verdict has already been decided.
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Mr. AIPAC Goes to Europe
Inside ELNET, the network importing American pro-Israel lobbying tactics to Europe
Nobody Understands History
“In every city she visits there is a museum and a memory of an aborted revolution”
Rise & Fall of the BRD
When the Lights Go Out in a West German Talk Show. Ask Max
The experiment of a historical memory
Colonialism Comes Full Circle
Germany’s selective memory politics and the pattern of ongoing violence in Namibia
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Philipp Peyman Engel, the Feuilleton section, and the power to decide who is Jewish in Germany
The Bitter Tears of Klaus Biesenbach
How Germany’s cultural elite finds the opinion of Jewish artists hard to bear
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The Conditions for Inner Exile
Emily Dische-Becker on the Berlin Senate’s proposed budget cuts to the cultural sector
From Auschwitz to Skyscrapers
How a group of Jewish concentration camp survivors became pimps, drug dealers, and criminals in postwar Frankfurt
About the Diasporist
The Diasporist is an online, bilingual magazine of political criticism, cultural analysis, and new writing from in and outside of Germany.
The Diasporist draws inspiration from intellectual traditions of diasporic thought, modeling pluralistic debate and the value of critical distance. We aim to publish several pieces on each topic of interest, promoting multiple perspectives and informed difference of opinion.
We uphold high editorial standards, believing that writing that is curious, open, witty, provocative, well-informed, and eclectic can convey complex ideas in style as well as substance. We also feature fiction, criticism, original reportage, and broader cultural analysis from both established and emerging voices.