A Trip Home from the Club
Get up! Aufstehen! The sun’s up already and somehow Noah’s woken this crazy old man with his cane and his
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Hitler and the German Historical Museum
It’s easy to forget that Germany is a new country and that, for much of its history, the term ‘German’
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Footbridge, Bahnhof Friedrichstraße
If Berlin has a tear in its fabric, a trap door to an alternate reality, it’s here. Suspended under the
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Bahnhof Alexanderplatz
Berlin scares the hell out of me, a Parisian friend confesses on a weekend visit. Putain! Look how empty the
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Café Einstein, Kurfürstenstraße 58
You love this Viennese-styled café, but at times it fills you with grief. You were here in late autumn and
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Ex-Pat Disorientation: Kawaguchi’s Andropolaroid at Dock 11
Being an expat can be profoundly frustrating and disorienting. It is like having no points of reference, it’s the struggle
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The Berggruen Museum
On the top floor there is a flat where the old man himself lived. Not a bad solution for old
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Charlottengrad
It’s not just the rumble of S-Bahn Charlottenburg’s train tracks above that makes you feel in-transit. In the Rossia supermarket,
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When You’re From Kotti
Kottbusser Tor, the centre of the ertswhile-radical SO36 district in Kreuzberg, is affectionately known as just ‘Kotti’. The surrounding kiez
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The Jewish Museum
(bear with us as we try to correct some formatting problems with this page) I first visited the Jewish
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Starship Tunnels No More
Not far from Hermannplatz, the cusp of Kreuzberg and Neukölln, at Hasenheide 13, are two tunnels that lead to another
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