PodFest Berlin

PodFest Berlin: German Podcast Recommendations🥨

October 10, 2021

Five episodes on a theme, each week curated by a different person

Curator: 

Why did you choose this theme? 

Berlin has an amazing and diverse podcast community, which has grown a lot in the last few years. To celebrate that achievement, I founded PodFest Berlin, and these are a few of the podcasts that will be recording at our festival later this month.

Podcast Picks:

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Flicks and ScoopsDie Hard with Basti Knight

Flicks 'n' Scoops' host Ash loves ice cream and movies and somehow combined them into one podcast. The conversations are great, bouncing back and forth between these two topics, and then off in other directions.

Beyond AsianEating Bitterness to Make MeaningThis was one of the podcasts I discovered through PodFest Berlin and it totally blew me away. In this episode, host Sen Zhan does an amazing job of making an intensely personal conversation with her guest, Holly, feel relatable and universal. 
Trigger warning: suicidal ideation, trauma, abandonment.

Radio SpätkaufHow to F#€K Up An AirportThis is one of my episodes, but I have to give all the credit for it’s success to my cohosts who did an amazing job researching, writing, and editing this spin-off series. 

Common Ground

Time to Reboot – Germany’s Rocky Road To The Digital Age

I first heard Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson’s voice through her reporting for NPR, and I am so glad that she has embraced podcasting. The show has a radio feel I love; Soraya and producer Dina Elsayed book knowledgeable guests, create great conversations, and apply high-quality production. 

FrauenQuoteTee nach Türkei, Tabak nach Dubai

EarBuds mostly focusses podcasts in English, but PodFest Berlin is a multilingual festival, so I wanted to include a German-language podcast here. FrauenQuote features two hilarious and good-natured comedians, Kinan Al and Filiz Tasdan. 

SPONSORED:

Need a little inspiration? Host Steve Silverman turns the light on in the darkness and spreads the good in every episode of World Gone Good.Listen to unique stories from incredible everyday people making the world a little bit better.

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FEEDBACK WITH EARBUDS:

This week on Feedback...We finally got our sh*t together. By that, we mean: for the first time ever, our interview is with the same person that curated this week's theme. Meet Daniel Stern, the founder of PodFest Berlin.He moved to Germany 10 years ago on a whim. Now, he's organizing podcast festivals!

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COMMUNITY:

I’m no doctor, but I think my heart lifted outside of its chamber, if that’s possible, when I listened to a new episode of Heavyweight. We meet Brandon, who remembers being a) a dork in high school and b) being asked to prom by a popular girl named Allie. And fifteen years later, he calls her and asks why."

✅Marketing Your Podcast: our founder, Arielle Nissenblatt, appeared on this podcast to discuss podcast newsletters and how to get featured. 

PODCAST SPOTLIGHT:

Loud: The History of Reggaeton

Reggaeton started the way most great movements start, en las calles. Introducing LOUD: The History of Reggaeton, hosted by Ivy Queen. We take you from Panamanian buses to the shores of Puerto Rico to the loud streets of New York City. Tune in Wednesdays to hear the true story.Listen

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