This week’s guest is considered to be one of the most important fashion journalists here in Germany. Originally from New York Melissa Drier arrived in Berlin in 1985 and has been writing about fashion and lots more for over 25 years for Women’s Wear Daily. This is the most influential daily newspaper of the textile industry worldwide.

Our guest in this edition is one of the research group leaders of experimental neurosurgery at the world famous Charité University hospital in Berlin. Ana Luisa Pina is from Mexico and originally came to Germany to study at the turn of the millenium. She is passionate about science, yoga, dance and much more.

Born in New York and brought up in London Michal Friedlander came to Germany in 2001 to take up the post of curator of Judaica and the Applied Arts at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. She comes from a family of German Jews who fled the country in the late 1930s. She is the first of her family to re-locate back to Germany.

Our guest in this edition was born and brought up in the great American West but has a fascination for the great European East. Independent filmmaker Rick Minnich has made documentaries about changes in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and about the idiosyncrasies of his homeland. Forgetting Dad, dealing with his father's amnesia, has garnered numerous awards.