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:
How to Ruin Your Berlin Experience
There are places that are advertised as cool but are tourist traps. This is about how those places can destroy your Berlin Experience.
Leninplatz Berlin: The Past of Platz der Vereinten Nationen
Like most places in Berlin, Platz der Vereinten Nationen used to be something different a while ago. Before 1950, this square was known as Landsberger Platz, but during communist times, it was renamed Leninplatz. I used to pass this part of what was once East Berlin daily on my bike commute to work back in… …
Relics of the Cold War: A Photography Exhibition in Berlin back in 2016
Even though the Cold War ended over 25 years ago, you can see its remains everywhere. The Berlin Wall, the most famous symbol of it, is easily found around Berlin, but this is not the only relic that still stands, and Martin Roemers is here to show us those decaying testaments of a world that… Read More &ra…
The 1936 Berlin Olympics: A Family Vacation Movie
In April 1931, two years before the Nazi Party came to power, the International Olympic Committee selected Berlin to host its summer games. The 1936 Berlin Olympics, known in German as Olympische Sommerspiele 1936, was the first games to be televised and radio broadcasted to 41 countries around the world.
Matthias Makarinus: Berlin as you have never seen before
Matthias Makarinus did it again, but this time, he used different techniques to show a Berlin you probably never saw before. His amazing video uses time-lapses, hyper-lapse, slow motion, and some tilt shifts to show you how amazing this city is. He does all that in amazing 4K resolution.
Second World War in Germany: The Battered Face of a Country
It was early June 1945 when LIFE Magazine published an article titled The Battered Face of Germany showing all the destruction caused by the Second World War in Germany. This article was published not long after the surrender of Germany where, today, we have the Russian German Museum in Karlshorst.
Working in Berlin: What Germany taught me about work
I can still remember the first time I was left alone in an office around 4 o’clock in the afternoon. It was late summer in 2013, and it was the first time I was really working in Berlin. I was excited about everything I was doing and on the first week there, I was left alone… Read More »What to do and…
Ai Weiwei commemorates Refugees with #Safepassage
You would have seen something spectacular if you had been around Gendarmenmarkt in early 2016. World-renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei turned the columns of Konzerthaus Berlin into something different.