East Side Gallery (The Wall Art) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 95)
This 1-minute video is only intended to give a quick impression of the East Side Gallery – an outdoor gallery of 105 official images painted on a 1.3 km section of the Berlin…
Holocaust Memorial – In A Berlin Minute (Week 22)
The official name of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin is “Denkmal für die Ermordeten Juden Europas” (Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe). The Holocaust Memorial was designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold and officially inaugurated…
Berlin Churches of the 1989 Peaceful Revolution / Kirchen der Friedlichen Revolution – In A Berlin Minute (Week 126)
In days like these, when there are so many uprisings that are answered by violence, I thought it would be a good idea to focus on a positive aspect in German history: The…
Bohemian Rixdorf (Böhmisch-Rixdorf) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 152)
Dorf Rixdorf (village Rixdorf) or Böhmisch Rixdorf (Bohemian Rixdorf) is a little Berlin neighborhood, which is now part or Neukölln. Originally it was founded in 1737 by Protestant refugees from Bohemia. The main…
Prague / Praha, Czech Republic – In Another Minute (Week 36)
For our fifteenth (15th!!!) wedding anniversary Scott and I went on a super-spontaneous super-short 24-hour trip to Prague, where neither of us had been before. This beat in shortness our 2-day trip to Vienna…
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…
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…
