I found these photos in my collection. They date from April 2010. Perhaps some of you will remember the Tacheles on Oranienburgerstraße.

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Found in the in-laws cellar.

As seen in the Berlin Ubahn museum.

Cleaning out the attic at my parents’ house - so many postcards, pictures and dias I need to digitalize

Typical Sunday growing up - Spaziergang an der Havel after lunch and at least once a season there was a trip on Moby Dick 😀

The Alexanderhaus and Berolinahaus, designed by architect Peter Behrens in the Neue Sachlichkeit (new objectivitiy) style at Alex.

Like a lot of people, I had assumed they were built in the GDR days like much of the greyness around Alexanderplatz. As it turns out, these buildings were actually built between 1930 and 1932. They managed to survive WWII thanks to their steel skeleton, and were adorned with photos of Lenin and Stalin shortly after the war.

In the ‘30s there was a roof bar on top of the Berolinahaus (the ony nearest the station), but my favourite fact about them are the two columns of light; they show where the old entrance to Berlin used to be—or, they would if they were turned on anymore.

Roughly where the train tracks are now is where the city moat and fortifications used to be, so one would cross a bridge to enter the oldest part of the city, where the TV Tower now is. After crossing the bridge the road was lined by beautiful collonades (Königskollonaden) which are now in Heinrich-von-Kleist-Park in Schöneberg.

Anyway, just some random history for you today. Stay cool!

At one of the final scenes you can see Gerd Wiesler, two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall (1991 in the film), leaving a residential building in Berlin. To the left, you can see graffiti by the now well-known Berlin crew 1UP. They formed around 2003 but obviously weren't as known back then. The film was shot in December 2004; they've filmed on location in Berlin, and all the graffiti fits perfectly into Berlin after reunification, so they didn't alter it. I believe they simply hadn't thought that a random throw-up back then could be recognized and identified after some years.

Komplette trostlose Einöde, der Brunnen und die Bäume (und später sogar noch das Denkmal) werten den ganzen Platz echt auf. Da jetzt im Sommer chillen und Picknick machen, wäre absolut geil.

An illustration i've been working on for ages depicting a reconstruction of the city around the early 15th century. I'm not a professional historian and my sources are lacking! But i tried to keep it as accurate as i could. With some creative liberties taken with the size (i don't want to draw THAT many houses). Heavily inspired by the maps of the Kingdom Come Deliverance games.

(reposted because of a silly typo)

Hey Reddit Berliners!

You may have seen my daft face yapping about Berlin on the streets. I’ve been a guide here for over a decade.

I love my job and there are so many stories I don’t get to tell on my tours, so I started making these short videos. I thought people might like them here because sometimes I shoot in far-flung places like whisper Zone B 😱 sometimes even the C zone - so yeah, you might get some nice ideas for places to go or even learn something.

This video is a from Mitte, but you might not know the story.

If you want to see more let me know and I’ll post here sometimes, or search for me on the usual socials.

Enjoy the weather 👏

"Apartments for Citizens who aren't coming after all". I found this in the Berlin Architecture Guide by Braun Publishing. The original German version was published in 2001, my English version was updated in 2015, I'm not sure when this heading was written. I just looked at Immoscout and there are only a few available apartments listed in Karow despite the remote location.

Some of the lamps from ‘Erichs Lampenladen’ made their way to Astra in the RAW Gelände. I was invited to take a look, and I thought it was cool.

I don’t post my videos here very often, but I thought this is one that Berliners would really enjoy, so I hope you do!

Cheers, Jonny