Berlin Wall Homeopathic Remedy (Murus Berlinensis)
People who are unused to medical treatment in Germany are often shocked when the doctor prescribes nothing stronger than tea for a cold or even asthma but just imagine you were told to drink the Berlin Wall homeopathic remedy. There are practitioners of homeopathic medicine who believe that drinking a solution made with the crushed […]
Parks Range and Doughboy City – US Army Training Ground
Walking around the area to the South East of the S-Bahn station Lichterfelde- Süd in Berlin today, there is very little to indicate its former life as the US military training ground Parks Range and Doughboy City. The rough pentagon of land, two sides of which were formed by the border between West Berlin and […]
Free Wi-Fi at Berlin U-Bahn Stations
Following a successful trial at U-Bhf Osloer Straße last year, the BVG, Berlin’s main public transport provider, is set to roll out free Wi-Fi at several Berlin underground stations. Given its reputation as a start-up hub it is perhaps surprising to know that Berlin lags way behind when it comes to providing fast and reliable internet […]
Berlin Wall Graveyard – Teltow’s Answer to the East Side Gallery
On a building site between Oderstraße and the Teltow canal, just over the Berlin border into Brandenburg, weeds and trees grow around a collection of wall sections, like some kind of Berlin wall graveyard. In 1991, the NVA (Nationale Volksarmee) the National People’s Army of East Germany was tasked with dismantling and disposing of the […]
Berlin Airlift Memorial (Luftbrückendenkmal)
Looming over a small park on the Platz der Luftbrücke in Tempelhof, the Berlin Airlift Memorial (Luftbrückendenkmal) is dedicated to those who gave their lives to save the people of West Berlin during the Berlin Blockade. On 24 June 1948, Stalin closed off all road and rail routes to Berlin in an attempt to starve […]
Birgit & Bier – Beer Garden with a Twist
On hot and sticky Berlin summer days and nights I have three top tips for cooling down – eat ice cream, jump in a lake or head to a beer garden – and if you go for option three, I recommend Birgit & Bier. If someone says Biergarten to you, I’m guessing you conjure up […]
6 of the Best Berlin Ice Cream Shops
Berliners love their ice cream and with so many ice cream shops in the city to choose from I though I’d point you towards some of my favourites with my 6 of the Best Berlin Ice Cream Shops list. Eis Saison (ice cream season) is a big deal in Berlin. Around the end of February […]
Kaninchenfeld – Berlin’s Brass Rabbit Field
The brass rabbits of Karla Sachse’s Kaninchenfeld (Rabbit Field) add a touch of colour and some much needed shine to an otherwise unremarkable stretch of the Chausseestraße in Berlin. The Kaninchenfeld is one of seven artworks selected from a host of competition entries to mark the locations of Cold War Berlin’s inner city border crossing […]
Jeisson Martin – #EXPLOREEVERYTHING
Berlin-based photographer Jeisson Martin is willing to go further than most to ‘get the shot’, as you can see in his video series #EXPLOREEVERYTHING on his YouTube channel. The videos show Jeisson exploring the Berlin U-bahn tunnels and a rooftop with fellow instagrammer Franz Becker and an abandoned warehouse with his girlfriend Marisa Hampe. Welcome […]
Sunday Documentary: Union Berlin – The Fans Who Literally Built Their Club
Copa90 travelled to Germany to get to know a bit more about fan-owned football clubs and produced the documentary, The Fans Who Literally Built Their Club about the capital’s club with a cult following, 1. FC Union Berlin (generally known as Union Berlin). Possibly the most committed fans in the world, Union fans built their […]