Tiergarten – In A Berlin Minute (Week 118)
Tiergarten – In A Berlin Minute (Week 118) from Luci Westphal on Vimeo. Tiergarten (animal garden) is a large park in the center of Berlin. It was first established as the king’s hunting grounds…
Spree River Boat Tour – In A Berlin Minute (Week 11)
A Spree river boat tour is the fastest, most relaxed and coolest way (during this heatwave, especially) to see the historic downtown buildings and the ultra modern government district. It took me years…
Maueropfer / Wall Victims – In A Berlin Minute (Week 37)
From 1961 until 1989, at least 136 people died directly because of the Berlin Wall and border area. These people are referred to as “Todesopfer der Berliner Mauer” or just “Maueropfer” (wall victims). There are disputes as…
Mauerpark Flea Market – In A Berlin Minute (Week 17)
Supposedly there are forty flea markets in Berlin every week – one of the biggest is the Sunday market at Mauerpark (Wall Park), which is a lively park located in an area that once was…
Karneval der Kulturen – In A Berlin Minute (Week 4)
The Karneval der Kulturen (Carnival of Cultures) is an annual celebration of peace, tolerance and multiculturalism that takes place in Berlin during Pfingsten (Pentecost weekend). The highlight is the Karneval der Kulturen parade…
Berlin Angels – In A Berlin Minute (Week 43)
There are angels all over Berlin. For this video I concentrated only on Berlin angels found in cemeteries. The inspiration for this video comes from three places: The first inspiration is the song…
Ciao Kreuzberg – In A Berlin Minute (Week 14)
This week we said Ciao to Kreuzberg – for now anyway. After two great months in the former West Berlin neighborhood Kreuzberg and the previous month in the adjacent Kreuzkölln (really Neukölln, but I’m down…
U1 U-Bahn Subway – In A Berlin Minute (Week 127)
The elevated U1 subway line became famous through the 1980s musical Linie 1 by the Grips-Theater. For a long time the train only ran in West Berlin. Now it connects West Berlin’s Charlottenburg and Kreuzberg with East…
