Flash Mob – Die In – In A Berlin Minute (Week 50)
On April 12th at 6:30pm a German-wide flash Mob called “Die In – Fukushima Wahnt!” took place. Flashmob is an unusual and often pointless-seeming activity that is done by a group of people in a public…
Dong Xuan Center Asian Market – In A Berlin Minute (Week 66)
In Berlin’s Dong Xuan Center around 240 different shops and vendors (mostly from Vietnam) offer a fascinating mix of clothes, jewelry, toilet seats, Dollar Store wares, Asian groceries and magazines, bulletin boards, restaurants, hair and…
Clouds / Wolken – In Memory of Franc Tausch – In A Berlin Minute (Week 131)
Clouds moving across the sky. A rather unusual and simple video for this series. It is a special video I made in memory of Franc Tausch (aka FilmKritikTV on YouTube). He was a special…
Alexanderplatz Time-Lapse – In A Berlin Minute (Week 153)
Alexanderplatz is the bustling center of Mitte, the central neighborhood of Berlin (and formerly part of East Berlin). During week 7 of the web series In A Berlin Minute I already focused on…
Olympic Village Berlin (Olympisches Dorf) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 119)
The Olympic Village Berlin in Elstal was the first brick-on-brick Olympic village and is therefore the oldest Olympic village still in existence. It was built for the 1936 Olympics. In the beginning, it was…
Südgelände Park – In A Berlin Minute (Week 128)
Excited to share with you a new discovery that has immediately become my favorite park: Natur-Park Südgelände (south area) in the neighborhood Schöneberg. This park was once a train yard (more specifically a classification yard or marshalling yard),…
Urban Birds – In A Berlin Minute (Week 40)
Birds, birds, birds. Berlin is full of urban birds. They’re eating, fighting, mating, sleeping – like all Berliners. They just don’t have to go to work, nor do they have to go clubbing…
Reichstag – In A Berlin Minute (Week 170)
The Berlin building referred to as the Reichstag (officially: Reichtagsgebäude) today houses the Bundestag, which is the name for the German parliament. It was originally opened in 1894 when Germany was still the…
