Berlin is a city that has so much to offer, making it impossible to create a definitive “top 10” list. Whether you’re on a whirlwind tour or just want to hit the highlights, these are the articles I wrote about where to go and what to do in Berlin:
Check out the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin’s Treptower Park. It’s epic!
Most visitors to Berlin, even those curious about World War II history, miss one of the city’s greatest, most curious, and most impressive memorials, the Soviet War Memorial at Treptower Park. Treptower Park just might be the most impressive and important war memorial you have never heard of, demonstrating how a monume…
Neon Skies and Glowing Forests: The Unconventional Future of Berlin in Netflix’s Mute
In a future Berlin, an Amish bartender works in a bar with his girlfriend, and that is the story behind Netflix’s almost hit called Mute. Directed by Duncan Jones, Mute shows a Berlin in 2052 that looks and feels similar to the city where the director’s father, David Bowie, lived in the 1970s.
Berlin Techno: A Trip back in time to the Summer of 2009 with the web series After Hours
If you like Berlin techno, the web series After Hours might not be new for you. This documentary about Berlin’s techno scene premiered into the world back in 2009, on the long gone website 3min.de. After the site was gone, this music series disappeared from the internet but, this week, we found a page on… R…
Wandelism: A Week Long Street Art Exhibition in Berlin Wilmersdorf
For one week in 2018, Berlin had an urban art temple in Wilmersdorf called Wandelism. With more than 90 street artists from Berlin and beyond, this was a celebration of what Berlin is: a wild and colourful place. You could see various urban art styles, from graffiti to bombing, from art installation to contemporary art…
A Winter Walk around the Frozen Landwehr Canal in February 2018
The Landwehr Canal is one of our favorite places to spend warm Saturday afternoons, just walking along it. But it can also be a pretty exciting place to explore in winter since, from time to time, it freezes completely. A frozen Landwehr Canal happened on the last weekend of February 2018, and we went there…&nbs…
The Newly Found Original Berlin Wall that was lost in the woods in Schonholz
In 1999, local historian Christian Bormann found something that wasn’t supposed to be lost. Nine years after demolition began, he found a piece of the Berlin Wall, somehow forgotten in the woods between a train station and a supermarket. More than 80 meters of the original Berlin Wall, built in 1961, are standing there…
Understanding the Berlin Wall with Walled in! – The inner German border
Walled in! The inner German border is a computer animation produced by Deutsche Welle and the Berlin Wall Foundation to mark the 20th anniversary of the wall’s fall. The short movie describes the fortifications and how the border between East and West Germany was set up, and it’s an excellent resource for those who wan…
Where did Nick Cave live in Berlin?
After watching Nick Cave in Berlin in the Dutch documentary Stranger in a Strange Land, I started wondering where was the apartment where Bram van Splunteren interviewed the artist. This act of wonder became comprehensive research online, comparing Google Street View pictures with screenshots of videos. But, in the end…