Mauerreste / Remains of The Wall – In A Berlin Minute (Week 142)
There are still quite a few pieced of The Wall (1961 – 1989) left in Berlin. Well known places are the East Side Gallery, the Memorial at Bernauer Strasse and the pieces at…
Ostalgie: Intershop 2000 – In A Berlin Minute (Week 140)
The Intershop 2000 in Friedrichshain (Danneckerstrasse 8) is both a small museum and a shop featuring everyday times from the days of East Germany. It might be the best place in Berlin for you to…
Alexanderplatz – In A Berlin Minute (Week 7)
Berlin Alexanderplatz. A big square right in the center of Berlin – in the Golden 1920s it was at the heart of the city’s nightlife (and inspired the Döblin novel of the same name, which…
Olafur Eliasson, Not Frida Kahlo – In A Berlin Minute (Week 15)
Olafur Eliasson, Not Frida Kahlo – In A Berlin Minute (Week 15) [HD] Olafur Eliasson, not Frida Kahlo! This week, Scott and I tried to get into the exhibit of the famous Mexican…
Tempelhof Airport – In A Berlin Minute (Week 16)
A few years after planes stopped taking off from the historic (and at times controversial) Berlin Tempelhof Airport (Flughafen Berlin-Tempelhof), this summer, the centrally located city airport opened as a public park. So we…
Museum für Naturkunde – In A Berlin Minute (Week 13)
Das Museum für Naturkunde Berlin… how is your German coming along? That’s right, it’s the natural history museum of Berlin. On Sunday, Scott, Judith and I decided to do something different for a change…
German NYE Tradition: Bleigiessen (Fortune Telling through Molybdomancy) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 139)
Bleigiessen (Molybdomancy) is a North European New Year’s Eve (Silvester) tradition that goes back all the way to Ancient Greece. After you melt a piece of lead or tin on a spoon over…
David Hasselhoff tries to save the Berlin Wall – In A Berlin Minute (Week 151)
On Sunday March 17th David Hasselhoff came to Berlin and joined an estimated 7000 people to protest the East Side Gallery being chopped up to make way for luxury condos and a bridge….
