After taking a break from featuring independent literature for the last 2-3 years, we decided that it's time to get back to things with words in them. And what better way to restart our indielit section than with an interview with the very wordy (but in a good way :))...
We're gearing up for next Thursday 5th May when we'll be celebrating at Marie Antoinette with one spoken word poet and five music acts. Win guest list passes and indieVIP NFTs here! Robert Grant, UK-born and Berlin-based, is a larger-than-life, internationally...
The Trump presidency and its farce/carnival atmosphere is one of those can't-look-away car-crash things. Over the last months I've found myself going through a phase of gorging on books either about Trump or about Facebook - as they seem somehow to be entwined. That's...
Caught between the US drone attacks and the Taliban, a brother and sister set out on the refugee trail for Europe, fleeing their Afghan mountain village for a new life. Meanwhile a UK detective with secrets and a background in undercover work arrives in Berlin to help stem the wave of Islamist terror attacks that is spreading relentlessly across Europe. In the US, the CIA are coming to terms with the fact that their military drones are being hacked and brought down one by one, and that they are helpless to stop it. When ISIS are thrown into the mix, allies become enemies and enemies allies, until things come to a head on the streets of Berlin.
Robert Grant is a man who knows how to throw a party. The larger than life spoken word poet who also runs a music video company called Twisted Reel now gives us Berlin's go-to indie lit party: Yes boys and girls it's Wordfest 2019 this Saturday 4th May! WORDFEST is a...
Die Leipziger Buchmesse 2019 ist vorbei, aber hier in Berlin läuft noch bis zum 6. April das Festival Literatur BERLIN und bei uns könnt ihr Freikarten gewinnen. Heute Abend erzählen Harald Hauswald und Chrsitoph Dieckmann zum Beispiel von Weltstars in der DDR und...
Robert Grant is an established figure on the spoken word scene, appearing at many of the best poetry shows and festivals, worldwide. His laser-sharp, darkly witty and honest takes on modern life have made him popular within his chosen city of Berlin, where he lives...
Our indieBerlin immersion event is set to happen on this Friday 16th November at Entropy Collective Berlin, with a mixture of visual arts, music, poetry and spoken word. Two of our immersive poetical and spoken word artists, Bard Baitman and Elijah Elpenor, gave us...
With our upcoming event, indieBerlin immersion, this Friday at Entropy Collective, we caught up with two of the poet and spoken word performers, Shajara Bunny and Luke Swenson about their ideas and experience. Their work will be interlaced between musicians and visual...
This Friday 16th November, indieBerlin is hosting its first indieBerlin immersion event, creating a space for music, poetry and visual arts. Showing their work will be two visual art contributors, Sarnt Utamachote from Thailand and Lumikko from Poland, who gave us an...
In a small community garden in Neukölln, a few writers with various backgrounds gathered together to share ideas in the Berlin Writers Sunday Workshop. Lead by Sanna Kartau, an Estonian poet and writer living in Berlin for the past 2 years, we delved into each...
IndieLit is getting a fresh new face this year, with cool events, up-and-coming Berliner authors and exposure to more unique writing than ever before! We are looking for you, new writers with creative talent, to review. With our new book reviewing policy, here's how...
