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We have a few places left on our Prenzlauer Berg tour this weekend (Saturday and Sunday). Drop us a DM / mail / what’s app for more info & booking. www.slowtravelberlin.com/tours/beyond...

Absolute scenes #berlin

Leninplatz, 1989 (postcard) #berlin

Additional advisory, if you are a UK or Irish citizen but also a citizen of another country, you must use a UK paper to travel to the UK.

Aschinger was a chain of restaurants in Berlin, founded by August Aschinger and his brother Karl. The firm's own baker produced bread rolls that were served without cost with each meal. These free rolls, the low costs on general and brisk service endeared Aschinger to generations of Berliners.

“In some places, clusters of bullet impacts on lower facades hint at firefights where German soldiers fired from ground-floor windows and doorways, and Soviet troops answered with intense return fire.”

Berlin‘s Battle Scars: www.slowtravelberlin.com/berlins-batt...

Nikolaikirchgasse in 1885. So-called as it used to lead up to Nikolaikirchplatz and the church. Destroyed in 1899, along with the houses between Nikolaikirchplatz, Spandauer Straße and Eiergasse. #Berlin

“What is the robbing of a bank compared with the founding of a bank?”

Happy Birthday, Bertolt Brecht!

Alexanderplatz, 1930s by Roman Vishniac

1966 Blick von der Spree auf das Funkhaus Nalepastraße Berlin-Oberschöneweide.

2018 Funkhaus_Berlin_Orgel

2023 Funkhaus Innen Nalepastraße

2015 Denkmalgeschützt das ehemaligen DDR-Funkhauses Nalepastraße

#Berlin
09.02.1956
Das neue Funkhaus des Rundfunks der DDR in der Nalepastraße in Oberschöneweide wird eingeweiht.
Mehrere DDR-Sender strahlten von hier ihre Programme aus.

Paul Klee's diaries during the war. "Because I went, / Nothing threw its shadow / Over everything."

Excerpts from Paul Klee's diaries and letters while "on the front."

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This diagram is in Polish, but fairly easy to understand.

The upper section is U.S. assistance for Ukraine during the Biden and Trump admin

The lower is russian drone and missile attacks during the same time frame

Tell me more about how Trump's negotiations are working.

This is how Warschauer Brücke & Bahnhof Warschauer Straße looked in 1930

White text on a teal background. Pop-up Salon: Berlin. 27 Mar 2026 · Lettrétage Veteranenstraße 21, Berlin. EWS logo in top right: circle ending in an olive branch with EWS inside

European Writers Salon is heading back to Berlin!

Once again we’re hosting a pop-up literary salon at @lettretage.de and we would love for you to join us.

We'll listen to excellent readings, drink wine and get to know writers from Berlin and across Europe in a friendly setting.

An Introduction to the Literary Philosophy of Marcel Proust, Presented in a Monty Python-Style Animation Those who know the name Marcel Proust, if not his work itself, know it as that of the most solitary and introspective of writers—a name become an adjective, describing an almost painfully delicate var...

An Introduction to the Literary Philosophy of Marcel Proust, Presented in a Monty Python-Style Animation

Always

Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog, 1985 🔥

Stemmed

This blog began with Sartre, with a quotation about the collaboration between writer and reader, pasted into a blank page in January 2009. Reading literature is a collaboration in which the writer exerts a measure of control over interpretation, but that control is never complete. I didn't…

A Hackescher Markt perspective #berlin

Frankfurter Tor tonight #berlin #walkingberlin

Can’t remember

From the archives: sledging at Mauerpark

#berlin

Ein Zebrastreifen auf einer mit Schnee bedeckten und offensichtlich glatten Straße, auf der vier den Beatles ähnelnde Menschen liegen, die offenbar ausgerutscht sind. Anspielung auf die aktuellen Strassenverhältnisse in Berlin

There is also a Netto nearby

“Nicht heute”

🖤 arrived yesterday:
Bernhard’s early short fiction

— first published in English, selected and arranged chronologically by @shirtysleeves.bsky.social ✨

S Bahn 💛 #berlin

Running tomorrow and every weekend in Feb and March. Drop a line to slowtravelberlin at gmail.com for booking or click here for more info: www.slowtravelberlin.com/tours