CAKES FOR GRASS HEADS OR BUSINESS IN KREUZBERG
The word “Kreuzberg” brings to one´s mind many associations but “business” is certainly not one of them. “Fun” – yes. “Problem” and “zone” – absolutely! “Hip” – is the Pope … Continue reading
KREUZBERG´S CORNERS AND EDGES
A great tribute to Kreuzberg´s Ecken und Kanten (corners and edges): from the unkempt charm of Görlitzer Park and Manteuffelstrasse to the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie in SW 61 … Continue reading
BACK TO SCHIKANEPROMENADE – BERLIN THEME YEAR IN FONTANEPROMENADE 15
Diversity Destroyed is the name of the current Berlin Theme Year, inspired by two events which led to the death of millions and to an almost complete and irreparable destruction … Continue reading
NOT DEAD CALM BEFORE THE STORM: THE CARNIVAL OF CULTURES BEGINS!
Exactly this very moment the first floats are rolling out onto the streets and the first dancers are shaking their booties, starting the 2013 Karneval der Kulturen in Kreuzberg. 4,000 … Continue reading
READING CORNER: JUDITH SCHALANSKY´S “POCKET ATLAS OR REMOTE ISLANDS”
This might be the best book that German Republic produced within the last 54 years (1959 was a very good year for Lafite-Rothschild and Günter Grass:). It is gripping, it … Continue reading
SPOTTED IN PASSING: GOOD MORNING, KREUZBERG
Spotted in Marheinekeplatz this morning.
Tour along the Berlin Wall Trail
Reblogged from Under a Grey Sky: The tours that we have started running over at Slow Travel Berlin seem to be taking off in a big way, and if you … Continue reading
SOME OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS
I have just received a parcel. Brought as always but the extremely surly, sweaty postman who said “hello” to anyone last time somewhere around 1988 and who is fond of … Continue reading
TOO DRUNK TOO WATCH – PUNK FILM FESTIVAL IN KREUZBERG
Punk Not Dead! And the least in Kreuzberg over the next couple of days. Between May 9th and May 12th the Moviemento Cinema in Kottbusser Damm 22 (corner Hohestaufenplatz aka … Continue reading
SPOTTED IN PASSING: STEEL AND NO MAGNOLIAS
Spotted at Landwehrkanal in Kreuzberg 61.
THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF GREEN OR DIVING INTO PRINZESSINNENGARTEN
I wanted to write a text about Prinzessinnengarten myself but why bother if somebody else has done it so well? From a great local lifestyle and photography blog Stil in … Continue reading
SPOTTED IN PASSING: LITTLE RED SPRAYING HOOD
Spotted in Waterloo Ufer in Kreuzberg 61.
SPOTTED IN PASSING: HE IS A PASSENGER
Spotted in the old brewery in Fidicinstrasse in Kreuzberg 61.
HERE COMES THE RAIN OR THE FLOOD IN YORCKSTRASSE
According to the article published in Staatsbürger-Zeitung, it all began on Monday night at around 2.30 AM. The storm clouds reached Berlin from the north-east and by 3.00 AM heavy … Continue reading
SPOTTED IN PASSING: RAINY SUMMER IN GRIMMSTRASSE
Spotted last summer at Wrangelbrunnen – that year the fountain often remained dry while the heavens were spitting down water. Not the way God intended it to be:)
SPOTTED IN PASSING: LATTE TO GO
Spotted at Wrangelbrunnen in Grimmstrasse in Kreuzberg 61.
YOU ARE HERE: WRANGELBRUNNEN
In life, like in offshore tax evasion these days, nothing should be taken for granted. Not even architecture. For instance: what you pass on your daily way to work or … Continue reading
Racing across the water in Grünau, Berlin
Reblogged from Under a Grey Sky: We took the S-Bahn south to the edge of the city, not far from Schönefeld and the mythological new airport that we hope our … Continue reading
SPOTTED IN PASSING: SAIL
Spotted in Kreuzbergstrasse Hinterhof (backyard).
MUSIC SOOTHES THE SOUL: Midnight In Kreuzberg by NotMs Parker on SoundCloud
http://soundcloud.com/notms-parker/midnight-in-kreuzberg
MAY THE DAY COME!
Here is an article and a great series of photos from Berlin-Kreuzberg (with one exception of Neukölln´s Karl-Marx-Strasse) taken on May 1st, 2011 and published in “Der Spiegel” magazine. Hopefully, … Continue reading
SPOTTED IN PASSING: DINGHY-FEELING
Spotted last Friday in Urbanhafen in Kreuzberg.
PACK YOUR BADEHOSE NOW OR IT´S PRINZENBAD SEASON AGAIN
189,977 people cannot be wrong. And if all of them chose to go swimming in Prinzenbad in 2012, then the most popular open-air swimming pool in Berlin must be worth … Continue reading
SPOTTED IN PASSING: GONE SWIMMING
Spotted at Landwehrkanal in Planufer in Kreuzberg 61.
DAYS AT THE TECHNIKMUSEUM: THEY SAW IT ON TV
Among what feels like thousands and thousands of fantastic objects on display at the Telecommunications Exhibition in Technikmuseum (Trebbiner Strasse 9, Berlin-Kreuzberg) there is also a TV set from 1937. … Continue reading
WALKING THROUGH BERLIN IN 1929
Another diamond dug up on You Tube a while ago will be perfect viewing now that we are on the brink of summer ourselves. Filmed in Berlin in the summer … Continue reading
SPOTTED IN PASSING: LAZY DAYS AHEAD
Soon, very soon you will be able to blow up your inflatables and go play the Pirates of the Caribbean on Landwehrkanal in Urbanhafen again. The future is bright:)
SPRING SATURDAY MORNING IN KREUZBERG
This morning in our street the whole world was busy cleaning, sweeping and scrubbing. We simply joined the trend. Spring has definitely come – nothing else could otherwise prevent me … Continue reading
SAW IT ON TV: RBB DOCMENTARY “DAS NEUE BERLIN”
A great Berlin documentary on RBB (Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg) about the new Berlin – full of incomers, foreigners, people with talent and ambition (often all of the above at once:-) … Continue reading
YOU ARE HERE: PRINZEN- CORNER GITSCHINER STRASSE
Prinzenstrasse station of Stammstrecke (U1 today) and the Imperial Continental Gas Association in Gitschiner Strasse in the summer of 1902 There are people who say that vintage postcards are messages … Continue reading
TRAINS GO – A SHORT FILM ABOUT STAMMSTRECKE
Here is a wonderful albeit very very short film found on the page of “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” presenting the original images of the so called Stammstrecke – the first, overground … Continue reading
SPOTTED IN PASSING: THE CHILD IN YOU
Spotted in Prenzlauerberg and therefore outside the usual comfort zone known as Kreuzberg during the Sunday Improve Your Photography Course organised by Slow Travel Berlin through Gidsy.
TODAY IN KREUZBERG: APRIL 11th – WHICH WAY TO RUDI-DUTSCHKE-STRASSE?
On April 11th, 1968 in West Berlin Rudi Dutschke, one of the leaders of the revolutionary German student movement of the 1960s, was shot in the head by an anti-communist … Continue reading
SPOTTED IN PASSING: IT´S IN THE TREES, IT´S COMING
Still hoping for that spring to come. Spotted in Kleine Parkstrasse in Kreuzberg 61 (more about the street in the following post).
IN BLÜCHERSTRASSE FILM ATELIER IN 1908
What a lovely find! Here is a photo of Oskar Messter´s director Carl Froehlich filming Regimentstochter in Blücherstrasse film atelier in 1908. Oskar Messter is the second gentleman from the … Continue reading
“KÜNSTLERBLUT” – FROM OSKAR MESSTER´S FILM STUDIOS IN KREUZBERG
As a little follow-up to the post about Kreuzberg film studios of Oskar Messter, here is a song from his 1909 film Künstlerblut: Gassenbubenlied filmed in Blücherstrasse 31/32 and produced … Continue reading
SPOTTED IN PASSING: FISH & HOOK
Spotted in Skalitzer Strasse in SO 36.
TODAY IN KREUZBERG: APRIL 7th – THE 12 STREETS OF KREUZBERG
Despite the multiple prior announcements about the end of our “Today in Kreuzberg” series, it keeps growing and expanding as if enjoying a life of it own. Just like with … Continue reading
MUSIC SOOTHES THE SOUL: DEPECHE MODE
I walked into a clothes shop in Hamburg two days ago only to discover that their clothes were, pardon my French, shite but the music in the shop was pure … Continue reading
SPOTTED IN PASSING: BROKEN LINES
Spotted in Prinzessinnenstrasse in Kreuzberg 61.
TODAY IN KREUZBERG: APRIL 6th – HAYDN IN JERUSALEMKIRCHE
1802 At Jerusalemkirche in Lindenstrasse in Kreuzberg the noble crowds are gathering to listen to a maginificent work of orchestral music: Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze (The … Continue reading
RE-PLAY: THE AMAZING STORY OF JOHANN FRIEDRICH DANNENBERG FROM KÖPENICKER STRASSE
This is a re-posted text from last year and part of the series Today in Kreuzberg. Because it is April again and because the story is very much worth knowing … Continue reading
THE HELPING HAND
THE HELPING HAND, a photo by Notmsparker on Flickr.
KREUZBERG GOES OSTSEE
The first sunny day this spring and a long way from Kreuzberg. Easter Greetings, Dear Reader! via PicsArt Photo Studio
DAYS AT THE MUSEUM: THE ENIGMA OF THE ENIGMA
Enigma, German coding machine used during the WW2 by the Nazi land army but especially by their war fleet, Kriegsmarine, on display at the Technikmuseum in Berlin. One of the … Continue reading
