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The Mädels with a Microphone strive to create a sound map of Berlin by making long and short podcasts, as well as by collecting every wonderful and weird sound we come across. We love Berlin, and we want to share it all with you. Check out our website for lots more fun, pictures, blog posts, archive, and our listening map which documents where in the city we've done recordings and interviews. You can now listen to us on itunes here!: http://bit.ly/LahAfM If you want to use our podcasts for s ...
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Romy was born in the small town of Görlitz on the Polish-German border eight years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Sweet treats, such as chocolate were a rarity, but Romy’s experiences with food from the West before and after the fall of the wall, left her with a life-long sweet tooth, as the Mädels discovered.This podcast was initially made fo…
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In 1987, Ronald Reagan stood in front of the Brandenburg Gate and demanded that the Berlin Wall be torn down. Twenty-three years later, Berliners demanded that it stay put. When word got out on social networking sites that part of the East Side Gallery, one of the last remaining segments of the barrier that once divided East and West Berlin for 28 …
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Germany's favourite "whodunnit" TV show Tatort (crime scene) has had viewers hooked for over 30 years. Every Sunday evening at 8:15 pm, Germans and foreigners alike love nothing better than to gather in their local bar to watch various fictional dectectives solve fictional crimes in a different German, Swiss or Austrian city each week. The show can…
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We are excited to announce our first podcast made in collaboration with Berlin Stories for NPR. Thanks so much to Berlin Stories founders, Anna Winger and Gisela Williams. For more, go to http://www.berlinstories.orgIn this podcast, we checked out the Dutch expat scene in Berlin. We wanted to know why they came to Berlin, because, let's be honest, …
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Darkness and cold has descended upon Berlin. The city is blanketed in snow and fairy lights adorn the trees. Yes, it's winter again. But one of the lovely things about the Berlin and German winter is the season of Christmas markets. This year the Mädels bring you the sights, sounds and history of the Old Rixdorf Christmas Market. For just one weeke…
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On a rainy summer evening in Berlin, crowds gathered outside the Platoon Kunsthalle in Prenzlauerberg to find out who would become Germany’s smartest tough guy at the Fourth Berlin Chess Boxing Championship. But what is chess boxing? What are its origins and what draws people to the niche sport? The Mädels interview chess-boxing founder Iepe Rubing…
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If you've taken a stroll down Unter den Linden towards the Brandenburg Gate lately, you may have noticed a large group of protesters, and an even larger group of police on Pariser Platz.Many of the protesters are asylum seekers who marched 600 km from Würzburg to fight for their dignity, better living conditions, and faster processing of their asyl…
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Spreepark is the place to go in Berlin for urban explorers. Once a popular GDR amusement park, then a privatized post-GDR fledgling amusement park and now an abandoned and creepy amusement park covered in overgrown foliage and trees, it's the perfect place to explore. Located in Plänterwald just beside Treptower Park, toppled dinosaurs, a 45-metre …
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Against a backdrop of political unrest, hyperinflation, and extreme poverty; artists, writers, scientists and intellectuals flocked to Berlin to take in its decadent nightlife. The cabaret bar was where it all took place, and English novelist Christopher Isherwood was the perfect observer. The mädels went on a walking tour around Nollendorfplatz wi…
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While team Great Britain was winning Olympic gold at the London Olympics, Berlin was hosting its own athletic event, the Slowlympics. 18 teams battled it out against each other to be crowned slowest of the slow, and silliest of the silliest. The mädels spoke to organizer and Slow Travel Berlin founder Paul Sullivan, as well as a number of participa…
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Club Mate is probably Berlin's most famous soft drink. Its distinctive taste and extremely high caffeine content makes it the drink of choice for everyone from hipsters to techies to all-night partiers. You either love it, or you hate it, but either way, you haven't been to Berlin if you haven't tried Club Mate. And of course, there are those of us…
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For this mini mädel, we headed to Prague, and took a little day trip to Sedlec, a suburb of the town Kutná Hora. Sedlec is famous for a very strange and morbid reason: it's home to the bone church, an ossuary decorated with the bones of approximately 40,000 human skeletons. They're arranged in columns, pyramids, as chandeliers, and as a coat of arm…
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