City-Culture-Reading for a Year in Berlin: Notes of a Global Citizen. Right from the first page of this Berlin journal, the city is saturated with history and its horrors, as well as the present, the present of the entire world. Ilma Rakusa moves through the different neighborhoods and "times" of Berlin, wide awake and open, navigating between the memorial sites of Nazi terror and the galleries, cinemas, theaters, and cafés of today, among writers from Japan, Lebanon, and Turkey, as well as libraries, backyards, and parks. As a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, she resides on-site from October 2010 to July 2011, learning to become an author herself with diverse roots and languages, while meeting artists and intellectuals from various backgrounds. An unparalleled year in an unparalleled city. With her vibrant prose, Ilma Rakusa captures her perceptions.