The thread returns to Berlin through Ethan Gold and Ari Gold, who introduce Agnes to Schreck during the Berlinale. Schreck recounts a teenage vision of Weimar-era Berlin and the Romanisches Café, then reflects on Radio Werewolf's "Epiphany on the Freinberg." The episode then turns toward the Brothers Gold: Ari, Ethan, their mother Melissa Gold, Bill Graham's Berlin childhood and San Francisco afterlife, Herbert Gold, Father Verses Sons, Brother Verses Brother, and Ethan Gold's "I'm Always Sad."

Episode Beats

• Casino for Social Medicine as a Neukölln third space, clinic, bar, mutual-aid room, and performance setting.
• Daniel Zander's performance at a monthly Kunstler-Kunstlerin evening.
• The Wally George Show, Radio Werewolf, and Nikolas Schreck's televised occult menace.
• Schreck's account of a past-life vision at the Romanisches Café.
• "Epiphany on the Freinberg," Wagner's Rienzi, August Kubizek, and the dangerous mythic charge of political revelation.
• Ari and Ethan Gold as the Brothers Gold: twins, songs, family performance, and comic melancholy.
• Bill Graham as a Berlin-born Jewish child refugee who later helped define the modern rock concert.
• Ari Gold's Helicopter, grief work, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and psychomagic.
• Herbert Gold, Father Verses Sons, and Brother Verses Brother as late-family correspondence turned live-cinema odyssey.
• Ethan Gold's "I'm Always Sad" and the childhood image of the "depression stick."

Credits Mentioned

• Agnes von Witzleben
• Daniel Zander
• Annita Sleep
• Casino for Social Medicine
• Nikolas Schreck
• Radio Werewolf
• Ari Gold
• Ethan Gold
• Herbert Gold
• Bill Graham
• Melissa Gold
• Alejandro Jodorowsky

Suggested Links

• 
  Casino for Social Medicine:

  https://casinoooo.org/
  
  

  • Use for the venue and current events calendar. Their site describes the space as an anticapitalist collective café and bar at Sonnenallee 100.
• 
  Casino for Social Medicine background:

  https://www.mjhartelova.com/casino-for-social-medicine
  
  

  • Useful for a more descriptive summary of the Casino as a collectively run space and mutual-aid experiment.
• 
  Anarchist School for Medicine / Rest Repair Revolt:

  https://iniradar.org/casino-for-social-medicine/
  
  

  • Relevant to the transcript's mention of free/low-cost bodywork, peer support, and clinic formats.
• 
  Nikolas Schreck Bandcamp:

  https://nikolasschreck.bandcamp.com/music
  
  

  • Best direct music/profile link found for Schreck; includes a short bio and current music links.
• 
  Nikolas Schreck on MusicBrainz:

  https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e8032345-d849-4f04-958d-6904a7ca944b/releases
  
  

  • Discographic reference for Schreck's solo releases and related external links.
• 
  Radio Werewolf, The Lightning and the Sun on MusicBrainz:

  https://musicbrainz.org/release/d3016510-568a-45a8-a012-572a9b580fe7
  
  

• 
  The Brothers Gold:

  https://www.arigoldfilms.com/the-gold-brothers
  
  

  • Official page for Ari and Ethan Gold's musical duo.
• 
  Ethan Gold live/archive page:

  https://ethangold.com/live/
  
  

  • Useful for Ethan's official site and past Berlin-related performances.
• 
  Brother Verses Brother:

  https://www.brotherverses.com/about
  
  

  • Official film page; explains the one-take/live-cinema frame and the brothers' search for their father.
• 
  Father Verses Sons:

  https://www.arigoldfilms.com/poems
  
  

  • Official page for the book of mailed poems by Herbert Gold, Ari Gold, and Ethan Gold.
• 
  Father Verses Sons publisher page:

  https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Father-Verses-Sons/Herbert-Gold/9781644284261
  
  

  • Publisher/distributor page with book description and retail links.
• 
  Bill Graham Memorial Foundation:

  https://billgrahamfoundation.org/about-bill/
  
  

  • Biographical link for Bill Graham's Berlin childhood and later role in American concert culture.
• 
  Helicopter by Ari Gold:

  https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2016/02/20/helicopter/
  
  

  • Background and watch page for Ari Gold's short film about his mother's death in the helicopter crash with Bill Graham.

Berlin Footnote Links

• Website:

  https://www.berlinfootnote.com/

• Patreon:

  https://www.patreon.com/c/BerlinFootnote

• Instagram:

  https://www.instagram.com/berlinfootnote/

• YouTube:

  https://www.youtube.com/@berlinfootnote

• TikTok:

  https://www.tiktok.com/@berlinfootnote

• X:

  https://x.com/berlinfootnote

• Facebook:

  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61584609611787

• Berlin Footnote podcast:

  https://berlinfootnote.transistor.fm/

• Apple Podcasts:

  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/berlin-footnote/id1865276684

• Spotify:

  https://open.spotify.com/show/52w1fLrykLgTAKCtAgMqG0

• RSS feed:

  https://feeds.transistor.fm/berlin-footnote

We follow Berlin’s subconscious through courtyards, side-streets, lake edges, and hidden passageways where the official story frays and other voices slip through.

Transmission 001 begins at an enigmatic concrete banana under the bridge at Stuttgarter Platz and drifts into Charlottengrad, towards Lietzensee. 

It’s a walking tour not limited to those who are physically taking it.  

We visit diasporic bookstores, local characters, historical oddities, Vladimir Nabokov’s Berlin as a flickering double-exposure, as well as Aleister Crowley lurking at the edges of Weimar nightlife. 

Plus legends that won’t stay buried: the sunken village of Lietzow, as well as the Eternal and inevitable resuscitation of the white lady of Hohenzollern .

What you’ll hear

• A guided walk with story-driven stops (listen anywhere)
• Neighborhood history + folklore, mythologies stitched into one signal + 
• Bonus context, misfiled footnotes, and music 

Homepage: https://www.berlinfootnote.com

YouTube trailer: https://www.youtube.com/21qdwBPrX7o

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/BerlinFootnote

RSS: https://feeds.transistor.fm/berlin-footnote

Credits & thanks

Places & partners

• Zum Hecht
• Happy-Go-Lucky Hostel
• Klick Kino
• Music Train Records
• Hedayat Persian Bookstore & Café
• Gelkion Russian Bookstore
• Michael Thomas Schröder Stiftung
• Gallery 15
• Balavat
• Bürger für Lietzensee e.V. — Chairman Michael Wassiluk
• Parkhaus am Lietzensee e.V. — Chairs Carsten Knobloch & Katja Baumeister-Frenzel

People

• Ludwig Füllen
• Renate von Charlottenburg
• Hans von Döhren & Gunde von Döhren
• Roland Reither 
• Marilena Mannevy
• Anne Jelena Schülte
• Daniel Zander
• Christian Flemm
• Jesse Larner
• Thorsten Fleisch
• RBB Mitarbeiter Chor
• Hilde Wasserkampf
• Anissa Nyamhandu
• Devin Scheimberg

Music

Special thanks to Wolfgang Reiner, Mary Ocher, and Olgierd Bohuszewicz for the incredible music.