Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art in Berlin
With its rich heritage of Street Art and Graffiti, it is only fitting that Germany’s first museum dedicated to the art forms should open in Berlin – the Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art. For the first time impressive art work of world-known and emerging artists of the urban contemporary art are brought together […]
Sunday Documentary: Ai Weiwei Drifting
For the documentary Ai Weiwei Drifting, a film crew from the Deutsche Welle followed Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist who has made his home in Berlin, around the world for over a year. During this time Ai Weiwei was making his own documentary, Human Flow, about the plight of refugees. Ai Weiwei understands very well […]
Berlin Maps: S- & U-Bahn Walking Map by Kristin Baumann
It won’t comes as a surprise to regular readers that I have a thing about maps and that I love nothing more than walking around Berlin. So imagine my excitement when I first saw Kristin Baumann’s S- & U-Bahn Walking Map, which shows the walking time between stations on Berlin’s public transport network. Following the […]
Johanna Quaas – The World’s Oldest Competitive Gymnast
It’s not every day that you see a great-grandmother doing handstands, forward rolls and cartwheels and performing gymnastic routines on the parallel bars – unless your spending time with Johanna Quaas that is. At 91-years old, Quaas is officially the oldest competitive gymnast in the world, an honour first bestowed upon her in the 2012 […]
The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall – Konrad H. Jarausch
This TED-Ed Original, The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall, from Konrad H. Jarausch distills the complicated background to and history of the Berlin Wall into a 6-minute animated short film. TED-Ed Original lessons feature the words and ideas of educators brought to life by professional animators. Konrad H. Jarausch is Professor of European […]
BRLO Brwhouse – Berlin Craft Beer Wonderland
A paradise on earth for Craft Beer lovers, BRLO Brwhouse, on the edge of the Park am Gleisdreieck in Berlin is a combination of brewery, bar, restaurant and beer garden. The Brwhouse, which consists of 38 recycled shipping containers, celebrated its official opening in January 2017 and is the latest chapter in a story that […]
Sunday Documentary: 1930s Berlin – Documentary on Life in Berlin from British Pathé
BERLIN is a documentary on life in 1930s Berlin from the treasure trove of the extensive British Pathé archives. Released in Germany in 1935 under the title Berlin Bleibt Berlin (Berlin Remains Berlin), the film was commissioned by the Reichsbahnzentrale für den Deutschen Reiseverkehr (Central Travel Office of the German state Railways) to promote Berlin […]
Berghain Drinks Menu Theft Police Letter on eBay
Having caused quite a stir back in April 2016 when a Berghain / Panorama Bar drinks menu appeared for sale on eBay, the seller 7oxymoron is back and this time he’s offering to sell a letter from the police threatening legal action over the theft of that menu…
Salt n Bone – Sunday Roasts and Craft Beer
Salt n Bone in Prenzlauer Berg serves what is for me the ultimate combination in comfort food – Sunday roasts and craft beer – a rarity in Berlin. Run by Dubliners, Andrew Costello and Rebecca Lynch the emphasis on the menu at Salt n Bone is on high quality pub food made with locally sourced […]
Ghost Station – Potsdamer Platz in 1989
It’s hard to imagine it now travelling through the brightly lit and shiny tiled S-Bahn station at Potsdamer Platz but during the Cold War this was one of Berlin’s infamous ghost stations. When the Berlin wall went up in August 1961 it followed the arbitrary borders drawn up by the Allied Powers and the Soviets […]