Posts Tagged ‘Kreuzberg’
A Time Of Waist
Mairi Beautyman meets Miss Moss, Berlin's very own corset maker... Theatrical wardrobe touches - say a man wearing a hoody with sequined bunny ears recently spotted skipping the line at waterfront club Bar 25 - open doors in Berlin. A tanked economy, an influx of artists and Flapper roots converge to make this city one that scoffs at fashion for the sake of a pricey designer label. Dressing up here is all about individualism - precision-scattering of one-off, hand-made, or vintage pieces. [...]
The Badeschiff
Looking to beat the summer heat? Try Berlin's Badeschiff - a swimming pool in the Spree... Badeschiff - literally "bathing ship" - opened in 2004 as an art project organized by Berlin's Stadtkunstprojekte (City Art ProjectSociety), the AMP Architectos (Teneriffa), architect Gil Wilk and local artist Susanne Lorenz.The initial aim was to enliven city life along what was then a long-neglected stretch of the Spree, between the former Osthafen (East harbour) and Flutgraben, a small [...]
The Shy Chef
A slightly disappointing date with Berlin's underground dining scene... I first heard about Berlin’s Shy Chef around a year ago, when a friend enthused about an incredible, intimate dinner party they’d been to, where they met all these lovely people and ate really exquisite food...“all in the chef’s own lounge!" Even then the idea of ‘underground’ or ‘guerilla’ dining wasn't so new, nor was there a dearth of it in Berlin. For visitors or incoming residents to the city, [...]
Teufelsberg: Berlin’s North Face
A personal walking excursion to one of Berlin's most mysterious landmarks... Considering it’s a city with lots of neighbourhoods named after hills (Prenzlauer Berg, Kreuzberg, Schöneberg and so on), Berlin is a challengingly flat place. You can walk for miles and miles without rising so much as an inch above the median above-sea-level altitude. Nor would the more notable inclines in the city’s topography – the gradual north-easterly rise along Prenzlauer Allee, for instance - trouble an [...]
Q&A: Cynthia Barcomi
A Q&A with Berlin 'Baking Queen' Cynthia Barcomi American ex-pat Cynthia Barcomi moved to Berlin in 1985 as a professional dancer. She opened up her first cafe - Barcomi’s - in Kreuzberg's Bergmannstrasse in 1994, which sold her own roasted coffee blend and home made cakes. A few years later she followed up with her Mitte branch, set in a beautiful ivy-covered courtyard close to Hackeschermarkt. Cynthia has also written three cookbooks full of her wonderful baking recipes... Where [...]
Prinzessinnengärten
Berlin’s newest urban garden has a royal name and a noble mission… Prinzessinnengärten, or Princess Gardens - is the romantic name of a not-very-romantic urban street in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, hidden away in an alternative enclave of Turkish culture and noisy traffic near the Moritzplatz roundabout. In the center of this largely unused and cluttered space, two ambitious guys began an urban gardening project. Robert, one of the two founders of Prinzessinnengärten had lived [...]
G Wie Goulasch
Simple, home made goulash served in an intimate “living room” environment… Blink and you’ll miss G Wie Goulasch, an itsy eaterie on Chamissoplatz, the quiet square that lies around the corner from bustling Bergmannstrasse. Occupying a small house on the corner of Arndtstrasse, it’s run by Andre Schmermbeck, whose simple business idea was to create a place that serves up hearty, home-made goulash. You know - the kind you get at grandma’s house. It feels a bit like you’re [...]
Paasburg’s Weinhandlung
An unpretentious and well-priced wine warehouse hidden in Kreuzberg 61... Despite taking up a healthy 350 square meters of an old brewery in the heart of Kreuzberg 61, you’re unlikely to come across Paasburg unless you’re heading specifically for it. A mere thespian-lob from the excellent English Theatre on Fidicinstrasse, this low-key Weinhandlung is tucked away in a trade area behind the street's attractive Altbauten. Inside lie a wealth of wines and spirits from over 600 [...]
Walking The Landwehr Kanal
Kevin Braddock ponders the infographic and the psychogeographic during a stroll along the Landwehr Kanal at –15˚C... A Berlin mate of mine happens to be a very successful illustrator known for composing colourful infographics and tiny, pixelated portraits of popstars. We often spend evenings in the bars around Kottbusser Tor pontificating on life, on the whole agreeing with each other. One day though we happened upon a quite intractable difference in our views. It crystallised around [...]
Cycling in Berlin
British journalist and cycling enthusiast Kevin Braddock changes gear for an inaugural Berlin bike ride... Everyone cycles in Berlin, and in Berlin everyone cycles in the same way: slowly. I recognised this one day not so long ago as I was riding north along Warschauer Strasse, from Kreuzberg to Friedrichshain. It was a hot sunny afternoon, and in common with very few other streets in Berlin, there’s a mild incline to the stretch running parallel to the S-Bahn just north of the [...]
