Julian Kramer

Julian Kramer is a member of openDemocracy's editorial team. He holds an MA in International Journalism from City University and a BA in East European Languages, Literatures and Regional Studies from UCL. His articles, news pieces and translations have appeared on openDemocracy, in The Independent, the Berliner Zeitung, and on n-tv, a German rolling news channel. Julian's main journalistic interests are migration issues, the developing world, EU enlargement, endangered peoples and British-German relations.

Goodbye Lenin: the uses of nostalgia

Germany + history + comedy? That sounds like an unlikely equation. In the mid-1990s, the German film industry was mired in a wave of best-selling but shallow comedies like Der bewegte Mann

By Julian Kramer

/ 11 Aug 2003

Living on the edge: a Roma clan in Ostrava, Czech Republic

The old Gypsy woman points with her finger at a group of people gathered in front of a shabby housing block. This is my daughter. The Germans wouldnt let

By Julian Kramer

/ 31 Jul 2003