Places in Berlin

Come to Hauptbahnhof, Berlin’s main station, at 4:30 or 15:40, and watch the creaky train carriages depart, carrying passengers for

Get up! Aufstehen! The sun’s up already and somehow Noah’s woken this crazy old man with his cane and his

If Berlin has a tear in its fabric, a trap door to an alternate reality, it’s here. Suspended under the

Berlin scares the hell out of me, a Parisian friend confesses on a weekend visit. Putain! Look how empty the

Kottbusser Tor, the centre of the ertswhile-radical SO36 district in Kreuzberg, is affectionately known as just ‘Kotti’. The surrounding kiez

(bear with us as we try to correct some formatting problems with this page)   I first visited the Jewish

Not far from Hermannplatz, the cusp of Kreuzberg and Neukölln, at Hasenheide 13, are two tunnels that lead to another

It’s a late summer day and we are riding our bikes around Dahlem, in the South of former West Berlin.

  Berliners are used to there being a great space off-limits between Mitte and Wedding, hidden behind a wall. The

Doppelkolbenpumpe. I was surprised I could find an online translation: double piston pump. Then what is one doing in a