Vadim Kamkalov is the founder and owner of Protokoll Taproom, an international (and Russian) craft beer bar in Friedrichshain. We talked to the craft beer enthusiast about Russian craft beer, his journey to Berlin and why Vladimir Nabokov’s late father left him with an extraordinary feeling about being Russian in Berlin. Where did you grow up? I was born and raised in Daugavpils at the Western border of the USSR. Back then, it was one of the industrial and military…
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A born Leningrader, Vladislav Overchuk grew up in the typical outskirts of Saint-Petersburg, which he defines as ‘a pretty asocial neighbourhood’. Easily got accepted to the Saint-Petersburg State University for German studies and on…
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Russian-German Artem Hein is the founder and co-owner of Vater Bar in Berlin-Neukölln. Together with business partner Andreas Simon, he has recently taken over the Weserstraße bar Kuschlowski that they have transformed into a…
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Fjordwalker is an electronic project performing atmospheric instrumental music in live set format. The founder of the project is Alex Polianin, a composer and sound producer from Yekaterinburg. The debut album «U Can More»…
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This is Palina. Palina was born in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan and moved to Papenburg in Germany with her family when she was twelve years old. She studied dance in the Netherlands and traveled Europe for…